From day-to-day it may not be noticeable what the long-term trends regarding most occurring disease category, effectiveness of antibiotics or general cow health is on a farm. Luckily Horizon keeps tracks of all health treatment usage to help analyse this.

Report 63 gives an overview of the number of treatments categorised by disease category over a specific period (can be shown for month, quarter or year via settings in top left corner). This report is useful to see which disease category is occurring the most on the farm. The report Health overview – medicines usage, this provides an overview of all health treatments applied to individual cows. All treatments can be checked and analyzed. Selections can be made via the settings in the top left corner.

Cows are 24/7 monitored for their performance, health and wellbeing. This is measured at different places; 1) the astronaut, which measures for example milk production, milk colour, milk temperature, fat and protein indications, somatic cell count indication, 2) the tags, which, depending on the available measuring equipment, measures rumination and eating activity, as well as heat and inactiveness, 3) Horizon, based on the cow history and animals models in the background, advices and prediction models provide additional information. An example of how this information is used, is in the health task. The health task provides a list of cows with a sick chance of 10% or higher, based on deviating parameters and lactation data. Additionally, it provides more information on an improved or decreased sick change or if the cow is under treatment already.

Horizon keeps track of all health and medicine records and helps to plan actions, like vaccinations. Vaccinations can be planned with the use of treatment plans. Within a treatment plan, all required actions are summarized, which appear again in the health treatment task at the right moment.

Via an advanced filter you can set up certain requirements for planned treatments, like age, lactation status, birth date or any other property. A custom task can be created during a specific time shift to make sure the list of selected cows appears at the moment it is needed. For analytic purposes, a report could also be created with this advanced filter. Curative health treatments can be planned in a similar way.

Reoccurring and planned treatments can be set up via an advanced filter and a custom task as well, but when health treatments are applied based on certain events happening at the farm, the required actions, based on the set treatment plan, will automatically appear in the health treatment task. All entered data can be used for analysis as well.

Treatments plans encourage a farmer to work according to established protocols. This reduces the risk of forgetting steps and increasing peace of mind.

The farmer is responsible for creating the treatments plans in Horizon. Treatment plans are customized and farmers are encouraged to set them up together with the their veterinarian.

Creating a new treatment plan can be done via Manage -> Health -> Treatment plans -> + -> Treatment plan. A new window opens where information needs to be filled in, like curative or preventive medicine, the type of disease, the actual disease, or the advice given by the vet. Whenever a health treatment is applied, it will appear in the health treatment task at the required times.

Lely Horizon makes daily routines more efficient and creates headspace for the farmer with task-based working. Tasks help to pick the right cows for the right moment, with the use of Lely Horizon the aim is to spend 80% of the time on 20% of the cows. There is a set of default tasks available that should fulfill all needs. It is possible to create a custom task that is fully personalized and farm specific, should that be necessary.

The reproduction check task can be used when the vet comes over to check whether the cows are pregnant or not. This list will automatically filter out the cows that need to be checked, which is based on an advanced filter. Cows can be filtered based on reproduction status (open, cyclic, pregnant etc.), lactation status (lactating, dry) or health treatments. Within the reproduction check task direct actions can be applied, like changing the reproduction status to cyclic or pregnant, or applying a health treatment.