User's Guide

Contents

1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3

1.1 Minimum System Requirements to view CowAlert ............................................................... 3

2 Getting connected to CowAlert ..................................................................................................... 3

3 CowAlert Dashboard ...................................................................................................................... 5

3.1 Navigation Bar Details ............................................................................................................ 6

3.2 Search for Cow or IceQube Numbers ..................................................................................... 6

4 IceScore Mobility ........................................................................................................................... 7

4.1 IceScore Mobility .................................................................................................................... 7

5 Heat Alerts ..................................................................................................................................... 9

5.1 Viewing recent heat alerts and their associated behaviour graphs ....................................... 9

5.2 Viewing all Heat alerts .......................................................................................................... 10

5.3 Behaviour graph: Hours view ............................................................................................... 11

5.4 Behaviour Graph: Multi-day view ......................................................................................... 12

5.5 Behaviour Tables .................................................................................................................. 13

5.6 Receiving Heat Alerts by email ............................................................................................. 14

6 Lying Behaviour ........................................................................................................................... 15

6.1 Lying Behaviour for the herd ................................................................................................ 15

6.2 Lying Behaviour by group ..................................................................................................... 16

6.3 Lying Behaviour graphs for an individual cow ...................................................................... 16

7 Managing Cows and IceQubes ..................................................................................................... 17

7.1 Attaching IceQubes to Cows ................................................................................................. 17

7.2 Selecting Manage Options .................................................................................................... 17

7.3 Viewing Cows ....................................................................................................................... 18

7.4 Groups .................................................................................................................................. 19

7.5 Attaching an IceQube to a Cow within CowAlert ................................................................. 19

7.6 Adding new cows to CowAlert ............................................................................................. 20

7.7 Detaching an IceQube from a cow number .......................................................................... 20

8 Reports ........................................................................................................................................ 22

8.1 IceQube Population .............................................................................................................. 22

9 Site Information ........................................................................................................................... 23

9.1 User Settings ........................................................................................................................... 23

10 Help and Support ......................................................................................................................... 24

11 Compliance Information .............................................................................................................. 25