Cattle scales

Go with O'Donovan

I don't see any mention of Bluetooth or being able to record the weights with the ONeill. The S3 has Bluetooth and can record weights to an App.

I'm getting an S3 and an ezweigh7i delivered here for testing in the next few days.

There is and EID wands if you wanted to add

What brand of crate ,prices and grant available

I will back you on that one. Game changer is the word

Do you currently have an S3?

The Agrident/Allflex wands will connect to an S3 scales via Bluetooth. It will be the wand itself that records the weights.

A good few have there are old threads on the subject if you can find them.

We had to repair the bottom of our portable crush, so we added a place to put the weigh beams. The clock we got with it works fine but you really need to wait for the animal to settle down compared with more premium models.

It's worth looking at this one by @Micheal H

What type animals are you weighing? For larger types, store & beef animals, I don't recommend a scale with ridges in the centre / outside in particular. They tend to put a foot up on these and not weigh correctly. I have a Connacht Agri one which is fine and robust. It is a bit high though, so they can take a little persuading to hop up on it sometimes. Also, my pen / crush is slightly wider than the scale itself, so they sometimes ground a foot down on one side or other. Wouldn't recommend either putting it into a mobile-type crush, can be hard enough to push them into it without the extra hassle of them climbing onto a scale.

Looking forward to your results here.it will be appreciated 👍

I bought the donovan scales and wand, Everytime I use it I curse the platform as like posters say cattle don't like standing properly on it. In the next 2 years I'd hope to get a condon crate. The time and safety aspect are the biggest things. The wand is a dream though

Cattle sometimes get nervous when they go up on it, weanlings want to turn around so they not standing on the platform and they give an inaccurate weight as they are leaning on the bars of the crush.

Also for older cattle they are the length of the platform so it can be difficult to hold them on the scales for an accurate weight

No I just weigh the animal and crush together, have to zero the scales before the first animal so only the animal weight is shown.

We did replace the floor as original rotted away and we made channels for the weigh beams so crush doesn't slide around on top.

On a quick bench test the S3 Scales works with the AWR250 reader.
It's the reader that stores the weights as you already know the S3 scales is basic, but worth a look if you plan on getting an EID wand and could save you upgrading the scales.

A quick inspection of the BLE protocol suggests the device conforms to the standard BLE weighing scales profile, so in theory it should be able to connect to any app expecting the same.

@white Clover I sent a PM

Plenty of testing done alright, but not sure if it's the type of testing that would interest many here. I've been looking at them from a software development point of view. Unfortunately I didn't get to do much real world testing as they only supplied me with a lamb suspension weigh cell so not much use on my own yard, my own weigh beams had the wrong connections to try with.

But I can tell you both the S3 and Ezweigh7i work with the Allflex/Agrident AWR wands. There's not much advantage on using Ezweigh7i though as it can already record weights it's self, but it would be a nice upgrade for someone using the S3.