CowManager WIB910 Users manual

User manual CowManager

Manual for use of the web-based application CowManager

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After going through the CowManager system installation guide, you can read about CowManager in
general in this document. CowManager has been created to see at a glance whether cows have an
alert for fertility, health and nutrition. The basic steps are written for you, but there are also some
useful tips. This allows you to use the program easily and optimally.

This manual has been carefully compiled, as comprehensively as possible. If you still have questions
don't hesitate to call or e-mail CowManager support.

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Table of contents

1 CowManager general information .................................................................................................. 4

2 CowManager modules .................................................................................................................... 6

2.1 Fertility .................................................................................................................................... 6

2.2 Health ...................................................................................................................................... 7

2.3 Nutrition .................................................................................................................................. 9

3 Cow list .......................................................................................................................................... 10

3.1 Work screen columns per tab ............................................................................................... 11

3.2 Work screen filtering and sorting .......................................................................................... 11

3.3 Work screen alerts ................................................................................................................ 11

3.4 The cow ................................................................................................................................. 13

4 Input .............................................................................................................................................. 17

4.1 Add cow ................................................................................................................................. 17

4.2 Group management .............................................................................................................. 18

4.3 Group event management .................................................................................................... 19

4.4 Linking.................................................................................................................................... 19

4.5 Delinking ................................................................................................................................ 20

5 Nutrition ........................................................................................................................................ 21

5.1 Group overview ..................................................................................................................... 21

5.2 Behaviour around event ........................................................................................................ 23

6 Settings .......................................................................................................................................... 24

6.1 User settings .......................................................................................................................... 24

6.2 Management settings ............................................................................................................ 24

7. Multiview ........................................................................................................................................... 26

8. System status................................................................................................................................. 27

8.1 CowManager system ............................................................................................................. 27

8.2 Sensors .................................................................................................................................. 28

9. Instruction ..................................................................................................................................... 29

9.1 User manual .......................................................................................................................... 29

9.2 Installation manual ................................................................................................................ 29

9.3 About us ................................................................................................................................ 29

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1 CowManager general information

After the installation of the CowManager System, an icon for the CowManager Program appears on
the desktop of your computer. Double-clicking on this icon takes you to CowManager. Wherever you
have a connection with the internet, you can also open CowManager in

www.Sensor.CowManager.com

Please enter your username* and password (send), and check ‘Remember me next time’. Fill this in
once, and the next time you click on the icon you will immediately enter CowManager. Don’t forget
that your internet browser checks and remembers your username and password.
*Your username is your email address. This email address received an email with a link to create a
password.

Then, the application opens and the following screen appears.

On the left side of the screen is the main menu, which contains the following headers:

o Cow list
o Input
o Nutrition
o Analysis
o Settings
o Multiview
o System status
o Instruction

Below, at the left side of the screen, two arrows and a search function are displayed. These functions
are:

o Next and previous cow
o Search cow function

The ‘Search cow’ function can be used to search an individual animal by number. Just fill in the cow
number and click on enter. The cow information will appear directly. If the cow doesn’t exist, your

cursor will automatically be back in the search row and you can type in another cow. By using the
‘next’ and ‘previous’ arrows you can also navigate to the next or previous cow.

The left panel and search function are always on your screen. The right panel shows the content of
the headers. When you open the Cow list, a few different tabs will appear: All cows, Alerts, In heat,
Health, Fresh cows, Open cows, Open young stock, Dry, Close-up, Lactating, Dry, Young stock and Not

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linked. When you make changes in the display of the columns, it is important that you save the
settings. You can save them by clicking on the button “save settings” on the top of the page. If you
want to go back to the default settings, you can click on “reset settings”.

The size of the page can be selected in the bottom of the screen. By larger lists the “next” and
“previous” buttons can be used.

CowManager is also available via an App on your smartphone.

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2 CowManager modules

The CowManager consists of three modules: Fertility, Health and Nutrition. The Cow list is always
available for you. The type of alerts and graphs you can see are depending on the modules you
choose. Which graphs and features are in each module is described below.

Above the cow list you can see which modules are active in your CowManager.

You can see in the image above that the modules Fertility, Health and Nutrition are active in contrast
to the module Analysis. When the module is inactive, the name of the module is grey. The letters of
the modules are bold when it is active, see picture above. In case you want to activate another
module, you can contact your sales representative.

The module Analysis is not yet available. More information about the features of these modules can
be found on our website www.cowmanager.com.

2.1 Fertility

Module Fertility consists a real time heat detection in your herd. In both tabs Alerts and In heat you
can find all heat alerts. See the screen below.

The heat alerts are based on the deviations in behaviour of the cow compared with the reference
period of 7 days of this cow.

In the figure above you see how the alert is displayed in the tab Alerts and In heat. In paragraph 3.3
Work screen alerts you’ll find how to read these alerts. If you want to see the corresponding activity
graph, just click on the alert.

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This graph shows the high activity of the cow in the red line. When the blue line (heat state) comes
into the green area, there will be an alert.

More information about this graph is given in paragraph 3.4

2.2 Health

The module Health calculates the behavior of the cow: eating, rumination, resting, active and high
active behavior. It also shows the ear temperature compared to the temperature of the group. You
can watch the alerts on the tab Alerts and Health. The alerts are based on deviations of the reference
period of the cow. This is a strong indicator if getting a certain disease. The three types of health
alerts are shown below.

These alerts are shown in the cow list in the tab Alerts and Health. A cow can be alerted as

suspicious, sick or very sick. The temperature sign appears when the temperature of the cow
differs more than 7 degrees. More information about these alerts can be found in paragraph 3.3
Work screen alerts. If you want more information about a health alert, you can click on the alert and
the corresponding behavior or temperature graph will appear.

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More information about this graph is given in 3.4 ‘The cow’

When you click on the health state the graph of the specific cow appears directly.

The temperature graph shows the eartemperature of the specific cow compared to the average
eartemperature of the total group.

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More information about this graph is described in 3.4 ‘The cow’

2.3 Nutrition

Within the module Nutrition the eating and rumination minutes are calculated and shown in the tab
‘All cows’ in the cow list and in the list with ‘Alerts’. Besides this data, the module feeding calculates
group overviews which are processed into graphs. See more information in chapter 5 Nutrition.

The rumination- and eating minutes are both shown in the tab ‘All cows’ and the ‘Alert lists’.

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3 Cow list

In this overview you see different tabs which represent different types of alerts and groups. When
opening the CowManager the tab ‘Alerts ‘appears directly.

The tabs contains the following information:

- All cows: all cows including young stock which are known in the CowManager

- Alerts: all alerts around Fertility and Health

- In heat: all specific cows in heat

- Health: all cows with a health alert

- Fresh cows: all fresh cows up till 21 DIL (see paragraph 6.2 Management settings)

- Open cows: all open cows from 40 DIL till 200 DIL (see paragraph 6.2 Management settings)

- Open young stock: all young stock above 14 months without an insemination (see paragraph

6.2 Management settings)

- Close-up: all cows more than 266 days pregnant (see paragraph 6.2 Management settings)

- Lactating: all lactating cows

- Dry: all dry cows

- Young stock: all young stock

- Not linked: all cows that are not linked to a Sensor

All tabs are divided in columns, as you can see in the figure below. These columns are selected
specific for the type of alert or group. Eventually you can add or delete columns.

Important! After a change in the work screen always click on ‘save settings’ to save the changes.

You can easily search through the herd using the ‘search-cow’ function. The cursor is always in that
field. Just fill in the cow number and click on enter. The cow information will appear directly. If the

cow doesn’t exist, your cursor will automatically be back in the search row and you can type in

another cow.