Save Time and Labor

Taking the temperatures of fresh cows for ten days after calving is an effective way to catch uterine infections early but manually taking temperatures requires extra time and labor.

There are several advantages to using the SmartBolus^® system to monitor temperatures of your cows:

1) There is no manual effort involved.

2) Reporting can be set so that you are only alerted for cows whose temperature has changed by a certain amount (configurable).  For example you could set the report so that it only shows you cows whose temperatures have changed by 1.5 degrees F in the last day.

3) While the ten days after freshening are the most important days to monitor for illness, with the SmartBolus^® system it becomes effortless to monitor the cows before and after the ten day 'fresh window'.  The extra monitoring has proven to be very effective in catching additional cases of illness that did not fall in the traditional ten day window - for example, with the close-up cows.