Research

Hudson - Associations between Udder Health and Reproductive Performance (2012)

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Rudderham - Warm Water Lowers Core Body Temperature (2012)

Small - Electronic Tracking of Cattle ID and Core Body Temperature (2011)

Whyte - Unmasking Mastitis (2011)

Small - Detection of Ovulation with Passive Monitoring of Reticulo-Rumen Temperature (2010)

Cooper & Prado-Relationship of Ruminal Temperature with Parturition and Estrus of Beef Cows (2010)

Ontario Ministry of Ag-Reproductive Success (2010)

Sund-Levander - Time for a Change to Assess and Evaluate Body Temperature in Clinical Practice (2009)

Schutz - Implications of Changes in Core Body Temperature (2009)

Bannerman - Holstein & Jersey Innate Response to E. Coli Infection (2008)

Lawson - Accuracy Precision of Noninvasive Temperature Measurement in Adult Intensive Care Patients (2007)

Bewley - Comparison of Reticular and Rectal Core Body Temperatures in Lactating Dairy Cows 2007.pdf

Ontario Ministry of Ag-Dairy Cow Heat Detection (2006)

Costello - Consultants Guide to the Economics of Mastitis (2004)

Bitman - Circadian and Ultradian Temperature Rhythms of Lactating Dairy Cows (1984)

About Our System

Before the SmartStock bolus was developed, ranchers and feedlot operators would depend on pen-riders on horseback or motor vehicles, to visually look for outward visual signs of “sick cattle”. With reduced available labor in dairies, feedlots and in pastures, each pen rider would have to inspect thousands of cattle daily. Those “sick looking” cattle would then be pulled and a rectal temperature would be performed to determine if the animal was in fact sick.

The core body temperature and other health parameters are monitored and then on a regular basis the data along with a unique animal I.D is transmitted to a collective database. The bolus is an active RFID transmitter that will transmit an RF based signal up to about 300 feet to an integrated data base system. The 300 foot transmission range gives a total diameter of up to 600 feet.

About Our System

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