Understanding the Health service
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The Health service measures how much time your cows spend lying down and standing, and on which activities. It is used to identify a lack of comfort in the building or in herd management. It does not send any alerts: you consult the data whenever you wish.
This article contains the following sections:
- Displaying a group's data
- The four activities measured
- Target values
- Reading the comfort graph
- Monitoring changes over two months
Displaying a group's data:
The dashboard shows the lying time and standing time of each group.
To display the details of a group:
- Open the dashboard.
- Click the group.
The four activities measured:
The collar classifies each moment of the day as an activity, distinguishing between standing and lying positions.
| Activity | What is counted |
|---|---|
| Feed intake | Time spent eating. |
| Rumination | Time spent ruminating. |
| Inactivity | Standing doing nothing, or lying in deep sleep. |
| Other activity | Moving around and drinking. |
Target values:
| Indicator | Target value | What a deviation indicates |
|---|---|---|
| Lying time | At least 12 h, spread between day and night. | — |
| Imposed standing time | As short as possible (milking, restraint in headlocks), ideally accompanied by activity. | — |
| Standing doing nothing | As little as possible, especially at night. | Generally, a lack of comfort in the bedding area. |
| Other activity | Less than 15%. | Difficult movement, or complicated access to water or pasture. |
| Lying periods | On average 10 periods of 1 h 15. | — |
Reading the comfort graph:
The graph combines lying time and chewing time. Each point represents an animal: the selected animal appears in blue, the group average in orange. The meaning of each zone is explained in the app's help.
Start with the animals at the bottom left: they chew little and lie down little. Then check whether they are sick animals, fresh cows or first-calvers, so that you can act on the real cause.
Monitoring changes over two months:
The comfort curve shows, day by day over the last 2 months, standing time, lying time, the number of lying periods and their average duration. Zoom in to display more detailed data, updated more often.
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