In-heat detector

Green&Red

Hi guys,
Does anyone have or have details of a system for detecting when an animal is on. I read about one at some stage in the last year but can't put my hand on it.
Thanks,
G&R

Mooooo

The horse crowds have it I think there is something similar for cows I think I saw it in an American website, kind of a probe job. Dunno where you can get one perhaps a scanner or someone that deals with embryo transfer may know

pedigree 6

Mooooo wrote: »

The horse crowds have it I think there is something similar for cows I think I saw it in an American website, kind of a probe job. Dunno where you can get one perhaps a scanner or someone that deals with embryo transfer may know

When I was breeding horses with ai.
First you tried them with a teaser stallion pony to see if they would stand for the horse. Then if they would you would get the vet/scanner man to scan them to see what their folicles were like and if they had one or the two up.
This was done with a probe and then they could tell by hand (I think by the hardness/softness of them) whether they were coming into season or going out of season and they were ai'd just as they were starting to go out of season. They would inseminate both folicles and then scan again at 16 days to check for twins and if they are present, can squeeze the smaller one to leave one foal.
Then they can scan later on to tell the sex of the foal. Not sure when. I'm a few years out of the business.

Donegalforever

Green&Red wrote: »

Hi guys,
Does anyone have or have details of a system for detecting when an animal is on. I read about one at some stage in the last year but can't put my hand on it.
Thanks,
G&R

There is a Heat Detector Monitor called "Moomonitor" but I think it is expensive.
You could check on the website www.moomonitor.dairymaster.com for details.

Who2

There's a few out now but fairly dear getting set up and most require grazing your animals within a certain area of a receiver.