Best activity meters

[Bill1980]

which activity meters do people think are best?

 

[Will Blackburn]

ready. I’ve got an 8 yo silent herdsman set up. It’s going to be obsolete and the newest collars are coming up 5 yo, so I think I’ll be in the market before too long.

 

[Headless chicken]

@Beef farmer is the forums resident tech expert now …..

 

[Barmyfarmer]

A massive amount of my herd insights collars are dead, some after about 6 weeks use aswell! so unreliable it's ridiculous, so make sure you take into account reliability as it's so much hassle swapping dead collars out all the time.

 

[frederick]

On other threads it seem to be nedap allflex or cowmanager.

I'm cow manager and day 41 of service so won't post figures until next week.

Main weakness that need considering is grazing and how quick do you need the data after cows have arrived in yards. It can be managed in all situations but to make sure you have 24/7 data at grazing might incurr extra cost.

 

[Will Blackburn]

We found the latest Silentherdsman receiver too slow to catch all the cows before going in the parlour. First one was fine, maybe to do with wellness data that we didn’t have before. I think we will move it before turnout.

 

[coomoo]

Sensehub here is excellent, housed and grazing no problem.

 

[coomoo]

This cow sixth lactation circled is a mastitis purple rumination down and yellow activity down.

Same cow below in heat to serve this afternoon activity up this time, rumination down and heat behaviour way up.

 

[epfarms]

Another vote for sensehub

 

[Grassman247]

Another vote for sensehub

Who is sensehub supplied by? What sort of cost is it?

 

[Scholsey]

Sensehub, demoed cow watch (nedap) and found it horrible to use compared to sensetime.

 

[TheRanger]

Sensehub here is excellent, housed and grazing no problem.

Who’s the dealer for that?

 

[frederick]

Who’s the dealer for that?

Allflex direct I think

 

[epfarms]

Yes Allflex. No monthly charge (unless you want to link it to another programme such as uniform). We got ours under the grant last year, can’t remember how much off top of my head. Also traded in old heat time system with them. Best to give allflex a call.

 

[coomoo]

Who’s the dealer for that?

Allflex got mine through Semex originally