Moo call

Irish Beef wrote: »

Glad this thread has been resurrected, as plan on getting it in next couple of weeks as cows are due to start calving in a month or so, Wondering how the people who got it are finding it now after a couple of years in use, are ye still using it and would you recommend it. I see you have it Larthehar and would recommend it. That's good to hear as if it works it would suit me down to the ground, I work only ten mins from home and could easily head out to cows if I got a text, also I wouldn't need to be out checking cows in middle of night.

Hey Irish Beef,
I got one last year and wasn't impressed with it at all due to the amount of false alerts and it falling off cows tails.I live 7 miles from the farm so it's no fun going on a wild goose chase at 3am!

Irish Beef wrote: »

Glad this thread has been resurrected, as plan on getting it in next couple of weeks as cows are due to start calving in a month or so, Wondering how the people who got it are finding it now after a couple of years in use, are ye still using it and would you recommend it. I see you have it Larthehar and would recommend it. That's good to hear as if it works it would suit me down to the ground, I work only ten mins from home and could easily head out to cows if I got a text, also I wouldn't need to be out checking cows in middle of night.

Well i have noticed that with 1st timers it is generally 3hrs after the 1st message but with cows it is only about 1.5hrs.. now we have charolais, i do know different breeds are different.. you do get pure complacent with it though and wait for the message.. the only issue is sometimes one isn't enough!!

rushvalley wrote: »

Moocall have a competition on Facebook for a free moocall device if anyone's interested

Usually those competitions are only looking for people's information to see who's interested.

Sam Kade wrote: »

It's a 60 day money back money guarantee if you are not happy with it you can send it back for a full refund within 60 days. That sounds not right to me, what would stop people buying it and sending it back before 60 days. Sounds more like a sales gimmick, you'd want to check out the small print when buying.

There's probably small print alright. I'd imagine if you sent it back after "trying it" on 30 or 40 cows in 60 days they might be slow to refund you but if you were telling them it was on the cows and not working due to no signal they probably would refund you. They'll be able to tell anyway if it was on the cow sending texts.
They are good from what I've seen. I did see one cow calve with no text though. I rang them up and they were able to tell me there was some slight activity but not enough to trigger a text. That one was a totally unassisted calving where the cow didn't appear sick a couple of hours before the calf was seen. The device might have been a little bit too high on the tail too.
Generally it worked well though and you can set up I think 2 phones who both get the texts which is handy if you have someone else who helps with calving.

It flashes red,blue and green when its updating its software. It should settle on blue once finished.

I used one all of last year and renewed my subscription again for this year. Found it a super job for my set up. Don't have a camera so gave me great peace of mind that I could go to sleep knowing that the text would wake me up if there was activity. Had a couple of false alarms but they were never too far off. The majority were dead on timing.

Simmental. wrote: »

It flashes red,blue and green when its updating its software. It should settle on blue once finished.

They updated software and mine seemed to be struggling to go onto the flashing blue “working mode’.

Cow calved and no alert, I’ve brought it back to give it a good charge and hope this update will happen at hse before I put it on the next one !