Alta COW WATCH
Improve your herd’s repro, health, and welfare with 24/7 rumination, eating, and activity monitoring.
Make informed decisions that impact your herd’s profitability when you pair advanced Alta COW WATCH technology with expert support and consultation from your trusted Alta advisor.
Alta COW WATCH combines an unmatched range of features in a single and highly advanced, yet easy-to-use system.
Identification
Proven electronic iSO-compliant cow identification in all your automated systems such as milking, feeding and sorting, & routing equipment
Heat detection
Alerts you about the optimal moment to inseminate for the highest chance of conception. Provides additional repro insights to identify cows with irregular heats, and non-cycling or non-pregnant cows
Health monitoring
Offers proactive individual health monitoring for early detection of health issues, intensive monitoring of transition cows, and post-treatment recovery
Group performance trends
Charts the behavior patterns of your pens, and entire herd, to evaluate the impact of management decisions
Flexible SmartTag features
Choose the SmartTag Neck or Leg with the features fitting your dairy farm management style
Real-time info on all devices
All team members have access to real-time and relevant insights fitting everyone's needs
Simple integration and connection
Easily connect Alta COW WATCH to your farm automation systems and dairy management programs
Cow locating
Locate cows needing attention or treatment quickly and easily. See and follow their real-time position on your barn map
Expert support from trusted Alta advisors
When you install Alta COW WATCH, you install Alta. Your Alta team is ready to take you to the next level!
Return on Investment
ROI from repro
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WHEN YOU IMPROVE PREG RATE BY 5%
Figures calculated on improving preg rate from 18 to 23 on a 300-cow herd, using the UW Dairy Management ‘Value of Reproductive Improvement’ calculator tool
ROI from healthy cows
To prevent is better than to react
Act on early health alerts from Alta COW WATCH
to prevent paying the high costs of disease.
to prevent paying the high costs of disease.
HYPOCALCEMIA
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RP & Metritis
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Masitis
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Ketosis
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Left DA
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Lameness
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Costs account for veterinary and treatment cost, farm labor, lost milk production, discarded milk, culling cost, extended days open, and death.
D. Liang, D., Arnold, L.M., Stowe, C.J., Harmon, R. J., Bewley, J. M. (2017). Estimating US dairy clinical disease
costs with a stochastic simulation model. Journal of Dairy Science, 100 (2), 1472-1486
D. Liang, D., Arnold, L.M., Stowe, C.J., Harmon, R. J., Bewley, J. M. (2017). Estimating US dairy clinical disease
costs with a stochastic simulation model. Journal of Dairy Science, 100 (2), 1472-1486
There used to be a lot more manual labour involved- time spent physically going into the paddock, checking cows on heat during the day. Now I can roll up halfway through milking and the cows are already drafted in the yard.
Scott McKillop, Dederang, VIC, 370 cows
How it works
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