Suspected Sick Report

Healthy animals display stable eating and rumination behavior. Drastic changes to these aspects may indicate a health issue.

Determining standard eating and rumination times allows AfiFarm to identify when such a change has occurred to individual animals.

Click Suspected Sick report to view the animals affected by an undefined issue, and as a prompt to investigate the animal's wellness.

Understand the Non-Specific Health Report

Animals are entered into the report when their eating and/or rumination behaviors deviate from their normal behaviors identifying them as potentially sick.

Note: The report automatically includes milk, dry cows and heifers. However, the parameters can be changed to include only milk cows.

Column

Description

Current Rumination (%)

Displays (in percentage) deviations in the animal's rumination time, compared to her normal rumination time for the same time of day.

Current Eating %

Displays (in percentage) deviations in the animal's eating time, compared to her normal eating time for the same time of day.

Understand the Graph

Click a specific row in the Detailed Report to open the animal's behavior deviations for the last 3 days, in a graph view.

Note: On the Activity Indicator axis, 0 represents average standard eating, rumination and activity behavior for the specific animal. Graph legends above 0 indicate above average amount of time spent eating/ruminating/activity, while graph legends that dip below 0 indicate a decrease in the average amount of time spent on the behavior.

The graph displays hourly deviations in the cow's standard eating, rumination and activity behavior . Open the Legend dialog box, then click one of the legend options to view deviations to that behavior.

The example below indicates a significant and sudden decrease in the cow's rumination and eating times. This suggests a health issue exists.

  • Purple Legend – Accumulated daily rumination time. The example below indicates a consistent deviation over the last 2.5 days.

  • Green Legend – Accumulated daily eating time. The example below shows a consistent deviation over the last 2.5 days.

Healthy animals display stable rest and activity behavior. Drastic changes to these aspects may indicate a health issue.

Determining standard rest and activity times allows AfiFarm to identify when such a change has occurred to individual animals.

Click Sick Behavior to view the animals affected by an undefined issue, and as a prompt to investigate the animal's wellness.

Understand the Non-Specific Health Report

Animals are entered into the Non-Specific Health report when their activity and/or rest time behaviors deviate from their normal behaviors identifying them as potentially sick.

Note: The report automatically includes milk, dry cows and heifers. However, the parameters can be changed to include only milk cows.

In the example, cow 9010 was entered into the report for showing increased rest and lower activity compared to her normal behavior. This suggests she is not feeling well and should be checked.

The table displays, in red, deviations to the cow's rest and activity behavior that exceed set thresholds. It also displays a health score (100 = excellent comfort conditions). Penalty points are deducted for rest and activity behavior.

Column

Description

Last Rest Deviation

Displays the cow's percentage rest deviation for the past sessions compared to her 10 average for the same sessions.

Last Activity Deviation

Displays the cow's activity deviations or the past sessions compared to her 10 average for the same sessions.