Easy Temperature
Monitoring

Automatic Temperature Alerts

Most of your animals are healthy most of the time; it’s the ones that aren’t that you need to know about. Our software analyzes the temperature data collected from your animals and generates a list of only the ones that have problems. Alert lists can be printed out at specific times and sent out via text message or email.

Early Detection of Illness

Nearly anytime a cow's immune system is compromised, a change in core temperature can be detected. Whether this is demonstrated by a high fever or a consistent low temperatures, monitoring this parameter has proven to be a highly accurate detection tool for animal illness.

The following illnesses cause a rise in temperature:

• Aborts
• Infected abscesses
• Mastitis
• Respiratory infections
• Retained Placentas
• Uterine infections (usually within 3 weeks of calving)

Reduced Treatment Costs

Responding to the alerts enables you to have a head start on whatever it is that’s causing problems. Most treatments work better when administered early in the illness cycle and animals will recover faster the earlier you start treating them. Faster recovery means fewer chronics, fewer days spent in the hospital, and less costly treatments.

Reduced Mortality Rates

By detecting illness earlier you have the ability to administer treatments sooner and more effectively. Helping decrease animal susceptibility to physiological compromises and maintain a higher degree of over-all herd health. The end result of this is fewer involuntary culls. Our customers report an average reduction in 1st lactation fresh cow mortality of 50% and as one customer put it:

That means I don’t HAVE to cull cows, I can CHOOSE to cull cows.
Foy Chapin - Chapin Dairy Farms

Improved Estrus Detection

Getting animals pregnant is one of the most difficult jobs on the dairy and even beef producers can struggle to maintain high conception rates. Bella Ag makes it possible to pinpoint the exact timing of ovulation and the time you should inseminate down to the hour. In a recent AI trial conducted on a beef herd in Eastern Colorado, 85% of animals who were inseminated within the correct time frame following an ovulation induced temperature event became pregnant. Animals that were inseminated outside of that window or who never showed a temperature event only produced pregnancy in 4% of the animals.

Increased Milk Production

After an animal calves, her milk production climbs at a fast rate for the first few months of her lactation and this is the time when she's the most vulnerable. High energy rations combined with high conversion into milk means that each of your cows is giving all she's got and any little hiccup as her production climbs can mean a dramatic crash. Not responding to the issue fast enough she'll never hit her peak production and won’t produce as much milk through the rest of her lactation as she normally would have. If one cow misses her peak milk production by even 30lbs. that costs you over one thousand dollars by the end of the lactation. If you have a 400 head dairy and this happens to 5% of your herd, this decreased milk production has cost you over twenty thousand dollars! Our tools can help you recapture this by giving you the information you need to get those animals treated and keep them healthy, before their production drops.