The Tibke family owns a family-farm with 220 cows in Deinstedt (Niedersachsen, Germany). Henry and his sons installed CowManager together with representative Holger Wegner in the spring of 2017.

The main reason to start with CowManager were the flexibility and the labour-saving features of the system. During the harvest season, all family-members are always very busy, so they needed someone who could pay attention to the herd during those peak times. Henry's son Matthias: “With the implementation of CowManager we are much more flexible. In general, it is good to have an extra pair of eyes in the barn.” The German family started up with the module Fertility and the modules Health and Nutrition as a trial. After only two months they decided that these additional modules made their system more complete. “The Health module allows us to perform early treatments. With the hourly graph we can monitor these treatments and check whether the treatment is adequate”, says Matthias. “The module Nutrition allows us to monitor and, if necessary, optimize the effect of a ration change.”

 Matthias Tibke – Deinstedt, Germany

We have been working with CowManager for 3 months now. We already worked with a heat detection system in the past, but since we moved into the new stable in 2014, we didn’t use a heat detection system at all. You can imagine that with 220 cows, the overview of all you cows regarding the fertility and health state could be missing.

We chose CowManager because it shows us 3 totally different modules; Fertility, Health and Nutrition. The module Health displays 24/7 eating-, rumination and activity behavior as well as an ear temperature graph. In case of deviations, the CowManager app will send an alert directly to my mobile phone. In the calving period, the cows can be observed easily. By working with CowManager we can intervene quicker than with our own eyes. Without the heat detection system we would have definitely missed a couple of cows.

CowManager is easy to install and simple to use. Also the application of the Sensor in the cows ear is easy.

Family Scharninhausen, Germany