User's Manual

4 Behaviour Graphs & Summary Information

The behaviour graph page is divided into a graph and several tables.

4.1 Behaviour graph: Hours view

The Hours activity graph provides more detailed information on the animal’s behaviour. This view is

particularly useful when looking at heat events or suspected health anomalies.

The Hours graph can be accessed either from:

• Selecting a heat event and clicking on the chart icon (see section 5)

• Selecting the Hours tab on the main cow activity screen

Behaviour

shows detailed

behaviour information for the

cow. See more in section 8.1

Select the time period (15 hours to

90 days) to view the data for that

period

Scroll back/forward in

time

Options to print and

export the graph

Standing/lying time

is denoted by the

yellow line. Here the

cow is standing.

The pink line shows the

MotionIndex. This is a measure

of how active the animal is.

Note the raised activity level

during oestrus.

The blue line shows the Step

Count. Note that the

MotionIndex is a more accurate

measure of activity.

Clicking on any of these

headings hides/shows them on

the graph

The blue triangle shows when

the IceQube downloaded.

The Hours view is fixed width.

Data will progressively fill the

window.