Eyes on every cow,
every day.
In parlor cameras powered by artificial intelligence identifying early signs of lameness and delivering daily BCS scores.
We exist to improve dairy herd health and productivity.
Born and bred in New Zealand, Herd-i is an agritech company dedicated to using innovation to solve some of the key challenges facing the global dairy industry.
Herd-i brings the latest in world-leading artificial intelligence, camera vision and motion learning technology to the world’s best dairy farmers.
Powered by cutting-edge artificial intelligence software, Herd-i uses in-parlor cameras to provide early detection of lameness and daily automated Body Condition Scoring (BCS), enabling prompt, effective decisions that support reproductive performance, maximized productivity, and improved animal wellbeing.
Herd-i Appoints CEO to Lead U.S. Expansion
Herd-i has appointed Nicole Mozeliak as CEO, USA, to lead the company’s entry into the U.S. The technology is being installed on U.S. dairy farms in April, with the official launch slated for the second half of 2026.
Nicole Mozeliak
Chief Executive Officer – Herd-i US
The leading AI powered digital tool enabling dairy farmers to make faster, data-driven decisions to improve herd health and productivity.
Locomotion & BCS scoring on every cow every day
Whole herd rolling trends
Customizable thresholds and notifications
Why Early Detection Of Lameness Matters?
Lameness directly impacts farm profitability, making early detection and prompt, effective treatment critical to maintaining herd well-being and productivity.
Improved reproductive performance
Ability to treat early when lameness is less advanced, reducing recovery time and re-occurrence.
Reduced total cost of lameness
Maximized milk production
Improved animal well-being
Why Daily Scoring Of Body Condition Matters?
Body Condition Score (BCS) directly influences reproductive performance and herd productivity. Continuous monitoring allows for feed optimization and timely intervention, essential to ensuring herd health.
Optimized feed management
Improved reproductive performance
Maximized milk production
Early intervention to ensure herd and individual cow body condition
Improved labor utilization
Improved animal well-being
How the system works
Capture: A camera is installed in-parlor on-farm, capturing video footage of individual cows as they exit the parlor.
Identify: The Herd-i system identifies the cows EID as it passes the sorting gate.
Analyse: Video images of each cow are stored on a cloud-based server where their gait or body condition is assessed using the machine learning model.
Score: Each individual cow is assigned a locomotion and BCS score.
Review: Farmers access their data and images via a web-based dashboard with customized threshold settings and notifications.
Report: Farmers have access to a suite of standard reports.
The Dashboard
Daily Locomotion and BCS scores are able to be viewed, along with videos of each individual cow in the herd. Farmers can review cows that fall outside their customized thresholds for Locomotion and BCS, and add them to a watchlist for automated drafting and further action.
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