The assessment of body condition in dairy cows is critical for optimising herd management, nutrition, and overall animal welfare. Traditional manual scoring methods are inherently subjective and ...

Many times I have conversations with ranchers about how their cattle herd is doing, are their breed ups good, how is herd health, weaning weights of calves, overall performance of the cow herd, and ...

The body condition scoring system (BCS) is used to assess body energy reserves in beef cows. The BCS system used for beef cattle ranges from 1 to 9. A score of 1 indicates cows that are thin and ...

Monheim, Germany, November 26, 2014 – Veterinarians and farmers now have a simple and convenient tool to accurately assess the health condition of their dairy cows and detect possible metabolic ...

Bridge the gap between the barn and the byte to evolve the herdsman’s craft, reclaiming individual cow attention at scale through digital precision — one frame at a time.

Many athletes are conscious of their diets ahead of their competitions to make sure they are setting themselves up for success. Similarly, beef producers manage their bulls to make sure they too are ...

Small changes in body condition score – invisible to the human eye – can have a detrimental impact on fertility in the next lactation, a commercial study has shown. See also: When are the best times ...

As spring calving wraps up, it is important that farmers keep on eye of late calvers for issues such as milk fever.

Body mass index allows people to evaluate their physical health by measuring body fat using a weight-to-height ratio. In a similar fashion, cattle producers employ the body condition scoring system to ...