ReproductionOptimise Your Mating Season

Never miss a heat again! With smaXtec, you reliably detect heats and optimise mating season on your farm. Continuous monitoring also helps you detect abortions and fertility issues at an early stage, so you can take action in time.

Increase your reproductive success with smaXtec

Successful reproduction figures are crucial for the profitability of your dairy farm. The unique health monitoring provided by the smaXtec system lays the foundation for a fertile herd and therefore your farm’s success. In addition to health, the data the smaXtec system provides helps you optimise your reproduction and fertility management. Precise heat monitoring and abortion detection make this possible.

Detect heats with smaXtec

Never miss a heat again thanks to precise, reliable, and automated heat detection. With smaXtec, you know exactly when each cow needs to be inseminated and you increase your reproductive success on the farm.

The risk of missing the signs of heats is high. The time, labor, and concentration that goes into picking heats during such a critical period on farm is enormous. And the responsibility often falls on one or two key team members, pulling them away from other important tasks. As a result, keeping the consistency and high level of accuracy becomes a challenge as the week progress, which can lead to errors and some heats being overlooked.

Every missed heat costs the farm money. smaXtec helps you avoid these costs by reliably detecting heats for you and providing you with additional information on the ideal time for insemination and heat index.

Precise and automatic heat detection with smaXtec

Optimal calving interval

Keep calving events in view and optimise calving intervals.

Improved pregnancy rate

Determine insemination times precisely and create the basis for better conception rates.

Lower insemination costs and higher productivity

Detect heats reliably, avoid repeat inseminations, and protect your herd’s productivity.

Detect abortions reliably

Identify and check unusual cycles in pregnant cows earlier and plan re-insemination.

Save time by no longer having to observe heats

Reduce reliance on manual heat observation and avoid missed heats.

Identification of fertility problems

Detect unusual cycles and investigate possible causes.

How heat detection with smaXtec works

smaXtec detects heats based on changes in the behaviour of your cows, e.g. activity and rumination. The system analyses the behaviour over time and suggests an insemination window as soon as the main heat has been detected with certainty. With the help of the insemination window, you know exactly when an insemination is most likely to be successful, when the probability of success decreases, and when insemination is not advisable. Whether in a barn setting or out on pasture, smaXtec reliably supports you accurately detecting heats on your farm – no matter what your farming system is.

Recognise fertility problems and abortions early

Digital, continuous heat monitoring offers a further advantage: you have an overview of the current fertility status of each cow at all times and can immediately see if a cow’s fertility cycle indicates any problems. This allows you to act quickly and improve the fertility of your herd.

For efficient, targeted monitoring, all animals with a conspicuous cycle are collected on a list. Early detection of abortions saves time and increases profitability. This allows you to improve fertility figures through rapid re-insemination.

“It’s been amazing to have precise windows for insemination, so we’ve gone to twice a day insemination. In-calf and conception rates improved by 4% each year since we’ve had it. We’re now down to 10% empty, which is very good for this farm.”
Wayne & Sarah Neilson 340 cows, South Taranaki
“Having smaXtec in the cows means that I can head away from the farm for the day but still keep an eye on all the girls. During mating, it means I can see which cows are due to be inseminated and select the bulls I will use even if I’m not at the cowshed.”
Sara Russel 850 cows, Ashburton