Effectively manage reproduction on your farm with precise heat detection and calving alerts.
Reproduction
Accurately monitor reproduction
Optimize your herd's reproductive success with smaXtec
Successful reproduction performance is essential for a profitable dairy farm. Through smaXtec’s unique health monitoring, you build the foundation for a productive herd and long-term success. With accurate heat detection, abortion detection and early calving alerts, smaXtec gives you the insights you need to optimize reproduction and fertility management.
Heat detection
Detect heatswith smaXtec
Never miss a heat again with precise, reliable and automated heat detection. Know exactly when each cow should be inseminated to increase your herd’s reproductive success.
Today’s dairy cows show shorter and weaker signs of heats, often at night. This makes visual observation time-consuming, staff-intenstive and easy to miss. Heats can be overlooked simply because there isn’t enough time or labor to monitor every cow closely.
smaXtec helps you avoid costs associated with missed heats by reliably detecting heats and providing you with additional information on the ideal time for insemination and heat index, ensuring better results with less effort.
Better timing starts withprecise detection
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Optimal calving intervals
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Higher pregnancy rates
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Lower insemination costs and better productivity
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Fewer hormone treatments
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More time for other tasks
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Early identification of fertility problems
How smaXtec's heat detection works
smaXtec detects heats based on changes in cow behavior (e.g. activity and rumination). The system analyzes the behavior of these parameters and suggests an insemination window when a heat is detected.
smaXtec shows you the optimal time for insemination, indicates when the probability of success descreases and highlights when insemination is not recommended.
Recognize fertilityproblems quickly
Digital, continuous heat detection provides another advantage – an overview of each cow’s fertility status and immediately highlights irregular cycles. This enables quick action and helps you improve herd fertility.
Recognize abortions early
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.
Calving
Reliablecalving detection
smaXtec lets you know when to expect a calf. Early alerts give you time to prepare, provide support if needed and even identify possible twin births.
How does the smaXtec system know a cow will give birth within 15 hours? The system recognizes an imminent calving by a slight drop in internal body temperature, a widely recognized and scientifically proven indicator that a cow will freshen soon.
By recognizing this early temperature change, smaXtec detects calvings early and alerts you about 15 hours in advance.
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Benefits
Calving detectionyou can rely on
Before calving
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Have time to plan and prepare
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Use the designated calving area more efficiently
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Stay informed, even if calving starts earlier than expected
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Be alerted to provide preventative support, like calcium, when needed
Support during calving
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Identify potential complications early
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Be ready to intervene in an emergency
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Reduce the risk of stillbirths with early awareness
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Lower the likelihood of a retained placenta and uterine infections
After calving
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Detect metabolic disorders, like milk fever, early
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Shorten calving intervals and promote long-term lactation performance
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does smaXtec support heat detection in cows?
smaXtec detects estrus changes based on activity and rumination and recommends the appropriate insemination window for sexed and conventional semen. The key advantage is that smaXtec does not only support you with heat detection; it accompanies your cows throughout the entire reproductive cycle, from heat and to calving.
What is the smaXtec insemination window?
The insemination window clearly shows when insemination is most likely to be successful, when the probability of success decreases and when insemination is not recommended. Different recommendations apply to sexed and conventional semen and are displayed clearly.
How does smaXtec help with fertility problems and reproduction in cows?
With smaXtec, you can keep track of each cow’s reproductive status based on continuously collected data. Activity and rumination show whether an individual cow’s cycle is following the expected progression. If the cycle indicates a possible reproductive problem, the cow is automatically shown on a list for a check. This allows you to investigate unusual findings as early as possible and plan the next steps.
How can smaXtec make signs of abortions visible?
If a pregnant cow shows an unusual cycle, she is automatically shown on a list for checking. This can reveal possible abortions earlier, allowing you to investigate the situation and plan re-insemination if needed.
How can smaXtec help you know when a cow is close to calving?
smaXtec detects impending calvings based on a slight drop in internal body temperature and informs you around 15 hours in advance. This allows you to move the cow to the calving pen if needed, prepare the calving area and arrange support early if complications are expected. Health alerts also help you schedule any necessary milk fever prevention at the right time. Indications of twin births or possible calving complications help you know to provide additional support.
How does smaXtec improve heat and calving detection compared with collars and ear tags?
smaXtec combines activity and rumination data for automated heat detection with continuous measurement of internal body temperature for early calving detection. While collars and ear tags can provide behavioral data, the smaXtec bolus measures internal body temperature directly in the cow’s reticulum. This enables smaXtec to detect the slight temperature drop associated with an impending calving and provide an alert around 15 hours in advance.
Why does health management with smaXtec improve reproduction?
Healthy cows are more fertile because health and reproductive success are closely connected. Around calving in particular, a strong start to lactation determines how well the cow enters her next cycle. Indications of possible metabolic problems such as milk fever or ketosis help you manage the transition period and the time after calving effectively. smaXtec supports healthier cows, better reproductive KPIs and the profitability of your farm.