When users observe the cow in heat, they send the last five digits of the tag number to the system. Herdalerts sends reminder texts, for the next four heat cycles, to the user’s mobile phone. If the ...

Farmers have from time immemorial used expression of heat to breed livestock and other animal species. Failure to express heat behaviour is one of the things that occasion losses to dairy farmers.

A new mobile app which shows when cows are in heat has been launched worldwide by Dairymaster an Irish company. It will replace a vasectomized bull for many farmers. It will be launched in the US next ...

Supplying grazing cows with a “siesta” during periods of high temperatures this summer could help alleviate heat stress and its consequent effects on intakes, lameness, milk yield and fertility. Vet ...