HerdWellHealthier herds start with early lameness detection.
Lameness is one of the biggest welfare challenges in dairy cattle, and the earlier it's caught, the better the outcome for the cow. HerdWell turns everyday barn footage into clean walk-by clips, re-identifies each animal, and serves a fast pairwise gait-rating workflow, so researchers spend time on welfare, not bookkeeping.
Cow welfare, first
Lameness causes pain and lost production. Catching it early means faster treatment and a better life for the animal.
Consistent scoring
Pairwise comparisons remove the guesswork of absolute scales: raters just judge which of two cows walks worse.
Built for research
Role-based access, full audit logging, and exportable rankings keep every campaign reproducible.
How it works
From raw barn video to per-cow welfare rankings in four steps.
Curate clips
YOLO + tracking cut one clean clip per cow walk-by; a classifier keeps the good ones.
Re-identify cows
Visual re-ID groups clips by individual animal so scores follow the cow over time.
Pairwise rating
Raters compare two clips at a time: fast, consistent, and low-fatigue.
Ranked results
Comparisons roll up into per-cow lameness rankings, flagging the animals that need attention first.
Built on research
HerdWell draws on peer-reviewed work in cattle welfare, computer vision, and Bayesian ranking. These are foundational papers behind the methods we use.
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