The health of animals

Introduction

Hey my name is Marie-Claude, and I study at cegep in a technical program. I study in Farm management, and technology since two years, and we learn how to manage a farm, how to take care of animals, how to take care or the field, etc. At the same time, I work at my familial farm, so I'm a farmer too.

A lot of people today have animal at home, and we love them like another brother or sister or whatever. We all pay attention to the well-being of our pet, and sometimes it is difficult to know if our animals feel good or not. Imagine farmers who have three hundred cows at farm how it can be difficult to know if one of each cows feel good!

Animal health is very fragile, and that means farmers have to pay attention to it every day, because their animals bring them a salary, but they also love them very much.

In my technical, I had to create a little farm business, and I have four pigs to take care every day, and I don't know a lot about this animal because I just have cows at home. Then, before school, during school, after school, and after work at my familial farm, I went to see them, and only by observation, and stay a lot of time with them, I see that they start turning sick because they have ragged breathing, and they start doing fever too, so they start having a pneumonia. I start giving them some treatment, and after one week, they started feeling better. I was really proud of myself!

My goal today, is to show you what you can do to know more about the health of your animals with technology because it is possible to have more result, and it has more precision than just look at the animal when we know he doesn't feel good. Unfortunately, people with other animals than cows can use the platform that my farm used to have more precision about the health of their animals because it has special setting.

With the SmaXtec platform you can know a lot of information about your cows like the time of rumination, when the cow is going to calve, etc.

The Problem

Every farmer wants healthy cows at farm because they make them a salary, and a sick cow have a very low production of milk, and sometimes the visit of the veterinary is required, and it cost big bill. Today, we count an average of 82 to 100 cows per farm, and farmer have to spend a lot of time to looking at the cows to see if she looking good and eat enough. Sometimes, just take a look at a cow who can't talk to us, don't mean a lot, we have to guess if they are in good shape.

If we don't take the time to examine the cows, it's possible that some of them will get sick.

Sometimes this is difficult to prevent when an animal is not feeling good, because the first symptoms take time to appear when they start to fall in sickness.

With the platform I used at my farm, it is possible to prevent when a cow start fall sick. Then, we know which animal we have to watch constantly, and treat them before they fall sick. For sure, I am gonna show you what is the platform, and how it worked!

The Quest

Until now, it looks simple but, to have the application, you need to implant the technology in your farm. At my farm some people of US come to implant this technology, and explain to us how it works. At first, you need to have a lot of boluses comes from the company SmaXtec. This bolus can show you a lot of information about the health of the cows because the bolus is in the stomach of the cows and with more precision in their rumen.I recommend administering the boluses to the cows that you are going to keep on the farm for a long time.

Now, I'm going to show you how to go on the platform, and how it works. Certainly, I'm going to show you what information we can see in the platform to discover if your cows feel well, and explain you something that you have to be warning about that we not notice when we start use it at the first time at my farm.

The Solution

Before giving the boluses to the cows, you must choose which cows you want to administer a bolus to. After making a list of them, you can administer the boluses to the cows, and wait a little bit of time because it takes between 40 and 60 minutes to the data to come into the platform. After that, you can know when your cow is drinking, when she is going to calve, what her temperature is, etc. So now, I'm going on Google and at the top in the right corner in the search bar, type https://web.smaxtec.com/login. Now, you're supposed to see the login page, and I'm gonna enter my mail and the password to arrived at my farm dashboard. Now, you can see a lot of graphics, and they talk about different tings about health of cows.

The Conclusion

With the SmaXtec bolus technology, you can prevent the diseases a cow can have because the technology can show you with precision a lot of data about the health of the cows in live time! Animal welfare is a cause that is very close to my heart, and animals deserve to be treated well.

I hope that you like this video, and that it make learn you something different! Please like, and share the video to people need that technology at farm!