Wendy and David Harker - Allflex Customer Story Wendy and David Harker - Allflex Customer Story

Allflex collars improving in calf rates and cow health

At a glance

Wendy and David Harker, farm owners
Location: Te Awamutu, Waikato
Herd size: 430 cow dairy farm
Farm size: 252 hectares

Challenges

  • Wanting to take a step back and spend less time in the shed, but keep an eye on cow health and reproduction information.
  • Improve conception rates and retain cows wherever possible.

Benefits

  • Improved breeding window accuracy.
  • Ability to tighten up the calving pattern.
  • Valuable health information for cows transitioning from the colostrum herd.
  • Remove tail paint, scratches, and bulls from the operation. Reduce the use of CIDRs.
  • Lifestyle – manage mating plan remotely.
  • Monitor cow recovery and effectiveness of treatments.

Background

Wendy and David Harker are really enjoying the health and breeding information they get from Allflex collars. It’s enabled them to have a decent break between calving and mating, as well as improving in-calf rates and cow health.

Wendy and David Harker - Allflex Customer Story

“Our staff love the collars now. There’s no tail paint, no scratches and no bulls.”

Wendy Harker, Owner of Westell Farm

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Monitoring Solutions – Branding Explanation

The brand names for our monitoring solution have been subject to changes since recording our videos and farmer stories.

MSD Animal Health, a division of the MSD group of companies under Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ., U.S.A. and a global provider of animal health pharmaceuticals and technologies, purchased the Allflex New Zealand business in 2019 (including certain SCR-branded animal monitoring technologies). At the time, Allflex animal monitoring solutions were known as Allflex collars and the relevant desktop-based software was HeatTime Pro (both of which you may hear about in this video/testimonial). The dairy monitoring solutions are now branded SenseHub® Dairy – MSD Animal Health’s desktop-based software is now known as Dataflow II™ and cloud-based monitoring software is known as a SenseHub® Dairy solution. Allflex remains the brand name which represents our identification solutions