Fertility tracking for every cow in your herd

It is a record of each animal's heats, inseminations, pregnancy outcomes and treatments, kept on the animal for good. From that history Dairy Vitals works out her current status (unbred, open, inseminated or pregnant) and her next expected dates, so you do not have to calculate them yourself.

Four kinds: heat observations (observed or missed), inseminations (sire or semen details, technician and result), pregnancy outcomes (confirmed pregnant, not pregnant, abortion, stillbirth or live calving) and treatments (reason, type and outcome). Whether a breeding was carried out and whether it produced a pregnancy are recorded separately, because they are usually known at different times.

It uses standard dairy-cattle rules of thumb: a 21-day heat cycle, a pregnancy check about 30 days after insemination, calving 283 days after insemination and a recommended dry-off 60 days before calving. These are generic guides, not veterinary advice, so confirm important decisions with your vet. You can set a different heat cycle length, between 15 and 35 days, for an individual animal.

Four: two or more missed heats in a row, a treatment with no outcome recorded yet, a pregnancy check that is overdue and a calving that is overdue. They appear on the animal's page, in the Alerts list that the bell in the top bar opens, and are counted as animals needing attention on the farm dashboard, on every plan including the Free plan. They show while you have Dairy Vitals open; they are not sent as text messages or emails.

Everyone on the farm team can add fertility records, including workers. Owners and managers can also edit or delete any heat, insemination, pregnancy or treatment record, and the animal's status and expected dates are recalculated straight away, with a short note saying what moved, for example that the expected calving date changed. The owner decides who is invited and with which role.

Yes to both. When you add a pregnant animal you can enter her last service date so her expected calving and dry-off dates appear straight away. When an animal is sold or dies, mark it sold or deceased with the date: its history is kept, and it no longer counts towards your animal limit or your herd numbers.

Yes, on the Starter and Growth plans. A deworming rule can count from the expected calving date, the dry-off date or the last calving, a number of days before or after, so it follows each animal's own pregnancy and calving records. Your farm writes the numbers with its veterinarian; Dairy Vitals does not choose them.

Yes. Heat, insemination, pregnancy and treatment records are on every plan, including the Free plan for up to 30 animals, and you can export all your records as CSV files at any time. The paid plans add more animals and team members and the Basic reports. A new account's first farm also gets a 14-day trial of Starter with no credit card.