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Collecting and analyzing critical data points, from activity to rumination, for every individual cow can be a struggle for many dairy farms. But this type of information is paramount in maintaining the health and well-being of an entire herd.
When your veterinarian asks how your herd is doing, how do you respond? Do you provide a snapshot of how things are that day? Do you share anecdotal stories about calf health and reproductive loss? Do you state morbidity and mortality rates of your herd?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have that gauge to determine how successful our transition cow program is at present? If we wait to see measurable “wreck” clinical outcomes such as milk fever, retained placenta, metritis, ketosis and displacements of the abomasums, we are late to the realization of a transition program going astray.
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