SMARTBOW® from Zoetis is an ear tag-based sensor system that monitors rumination, accurately detects heats and tracks animal location in real-time. The SMARTBOW ear tags continuously transmits individual animal data to an on-farm server. Within the server this data is analyzed to create meaningful insights and alerts. These insights are designed to help dairy producers enhance animal health and wellbeing, maximize productivity and manage labor.
Accurate rumination monitoring (97-99 percent) can aid dairy producers in monitoring cow health. This creates the potential for producers to identify and manage health issues earlier, enhancing animal wellbeing and minimizing impacts on production.
Highly accurate heat detection (accuracy of 96 percent) through monitoring of individual cow activity provides potential to increase insemination success and reduce labor required to manage reproduction. Real-time localization means cows in heat, or requiring individual attention, can be found quickly and easily.
With the integration of SMARTBOW and DairyComp, dairies can enter a range of information into DairyComp and that information will automatically migrate to the SMARTBOW system.
This includes: