Body condition scoring for dairy cows made easy and accurate

DeLaval launches the world’s first automated body condition scoring system for cows, taking the guess work out of an otherwise laborious process. It provides the farmer with an instantaneous, accurate body condition score, without the need of any human analysis. The technology is based on a 3D camera fixed on a gate.  Once a cow passes under the camera, the system recognises the movement and selects the best still image of the cow in the video sequence. The image is converted into an acc