CowManager introduces Youngstock Monitor

2 Dec 2024 News 2 min

Optimize rearing for future herd health and productivity

CowManager introduces Youngstock Monitor, a new comprehensive solution to monitor calf behavior.

This innovative system provides real-time alerts for early disease detection and notifies producers when a calf may be falling behind its herd mates. With Youngstock Monitor and the new lightweight CowManager ear sensor, producers need just one sensor per animal for its entire lifetime, from calf to cow.

Powered by artificial intelligence with ever-evolving algorithms, Youngstock Monitor adapts to each operation and the behavioral development of each calf, allowing producers to make farm-specific predictions on the health of their individual calves and focus treatment in a targeted way.

Monitor Calf Health

The calf health alerts come in three levels: suspicious, sick and very sick, and detect subtle behavioral changes associated with illness often missed through visual observation. These alerts help facilitate quicker interventions, lower treatment intensity, reduce reliance on antibiotics and decrease mortality rates. Effective calf health management leads to increased future milk production and a healthier, more productive herd.

“With our innovative calf alerts, we can now monitor from calf to cow, for an animal’s entire lifetime. That is the CowManager vision”, says Gerard Griffioen, founder of CowManager. “This approach helps producers maximize performance and build the foundation for a productive and healthy herd.”

Innovation Award

Youngstock Monitor earned a Silver Medal Innovation Award at EuroTier 2024 and is now available in several countries.

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CowManager's Youngstock Monitor

Artificial Intelligence Algorithm

Our Artificial Intelligence algorithm tailors the calf health alerts to your specific farm, to help you optimize your calf management at every stage of their behavioral development.

Genetic Potential

Fulfill your calves' genetic potential. Effective health management from calf to cow not only unveils the best of their genetic potential but also leads to increased future milk production.

From Calf to Cow

Our lightweight sensor is designed to last a lifetime, offering a seamless and continuous monitoring solution tailored to your specific farm and your cow's life phase.

Modules & Extra Functionalities

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Health

Get an alert up to 3 days before any signs of clinical illness. Or, if your cow is already sick, monitor recovery in detail.

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Fertility

Increase profit with timely insemination. Know exactly when a cow is in heat and when to inseminate.

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Nutrition

Prevent heat stress and disease, take your feed management to the next level, and achieve the goals set for your herd.

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Transition

Experience smoother transitions and healthier herds with our advanced Transition Monitor.

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Youngstock

Effective calf health management leads to increased future milk production and a healthier, more productive herd.

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Auto Drafting

Separate cows with heat or health alerts from the rest of the herd with the integrated Auto Drafting functionality.

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MultiView

Give your staff, veterinarian, nutritionist, and other advisors access to selected cow data.

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Sort my Cow (USA)

Automatically separate cows with heat or health alerts with Sort my Cow and the CowManager sorting gate.

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Draft my Cow (NZ)

Automatically separate cows with heat or health alerts with Draft my Cow and the CowManager drafting gate.

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Find my Cow

Find a cow that’s in heat, sick or in the wrong pen within seconds with our Locator and Flash tools.

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