Animals appear in the health report when their behaviours have changed. Rumination, feeding, lying, standing, resting and activity behaviours are monitored every hour and every day for individual animals, and the animal against their peers in the same group. Animals in the health report should be checked daily.
Health report insights
The health report provides detailed information on all animals which have had a recent change in their behaviours:
1 | Duration | How old the health issue is. |
2 | Health index | The lower the health index percentage, the greater the change in behaviour. Health index percentages are coloured to indicate:
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3 | Health index trend | Based on the animal behaviours:
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4 | Behaviours | Shows the individual behaviours being monitored and whether they are of concern. See at a glance whether a particular behaviour is currently:
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Utilising health insights
There are some practical ways of utilising these health insights:
View details about an individual animal
Click on an animal record to view details about an individual animal. For example, you could open an animal record and click on a health event to see more details:
Use a health action list
In the web app, create and save a rule to select a subset of animals from the health report for follow-up actions. To do this, click + Add new rule and apply criteria.
For example, you could create a rule to view animals of most concern, with a Health Index below 70% and a Health Index Trend either Stable (=) or Decreasing (Declining) (↓):
Caution! It is important to understand that by using an action list, you are excluding some animals which have presented with health issues. When you first set up and use a Health Action list, we recommend checking the All Health list regularly to make sure you are not missing animals which have genuine health issues but do not match the rules you have set up in your Health Action list. You may need to edit the rules to get the right balance between under-reporting and over-reporting.
You can then use the health action list as the basis to draft and check animals (see below).
Draft animals
Draft animals and check them using your normal methods e.g. visually check the animal, strip and test before milking, check feeding, check milk yield, check temperature. Details can be recorded against the animal record.
Viewing animals with possible health issues
To view a list of animals with possible health issues using the mobile app:
On the Dashboard, tap Health (last 24 hours).
On the Health screen, a list of all animals with possible health issues in the last 24 hours will be displayed.
Click on an animal record to view more detail OR use an action list to view a sub-set of animals to follow up on. Animals can be drafted out and checked using normal methods.
To view a list of animals with possible health issues using the web app:
From the Home screen, click on Health (last 24 hours).
On the Health screen, click on All Health List. All animals with health issues in the last 24 hours will be displayed.
Click on an animal record to view more detail OR create and use an action list to view a sub-set of animals to follow up on. Animals can be drafted out and checked using normal methods.
You may be interested in:
Changing notifications to receive alerts for animals with health issues.
Viewing animals in Datamars Livestock to see historic data.
Having trouble?
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NZ 0800 248 722
US +1 (888) 431-0957 (toll free).
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