The Role of CattleWeight Scales for Livestock Health in Alberta

Knowing the weight of your livestock is about a lot more than calculating an animal’s market price. It is also an excellent tool used by cattle raisers for detecting health concerns within their herd and effectively treating disease.
Regular monitoring using cattle weight scales in Alberta can help identify changes in weight that may indicate health issues before they become severe. Additionally, accurate weight measurements are crucial for administering the correct dosage of medications and supplements, ensuring the well-being of the animals.

Manage Your Livestock Through Weighing

It may seem difficult to believe that regular weighing of select animals, or even an entire herd, has become an easy way to monitor herd health and to identify problems that your careful eyes may or may not suspect, but it is true. Modern cattle weight scales in Alberta can provide remote monitoring, data analytics, and quick and accurate weighing, which makes it relatively simple to add regular weighing to your herd health regime.

Through regular weighing, you can:

• Monitor for healthy growth or detect sudden weight loss, which could be an indicator of stress, parasitic infection, metabolic disorder, or any number of other concerns.
• Identify lameness or changes in an animal’s gait through changes in weight distribution on the hooves.
• Establish a feed efficiency program by monitoring the amount of feed consumed in relation to animal growth.
• Gain insight into the reproductive performance of your animals.
• Better manage vaccinations and medication by dosing according to an accurate weight

Scale Solutions

Today’s high-tech livestock and cattle scales in Alberta make it easier to weigh animals and obtain valuable, trackable data about their health. Modern scale indicators can do some or all of the following:

• Read EID or VID tags from a distance
• Maintain records for numerous animals
• Connect with your computer
• Cross-reference animal codes and ID numbers
• Draft/sort
• Provide statistics:
  • Headcount
  • Average
  • Minimum/maximum
  • Total
  • Standard deviation

One Cow, Two Cows, Three Cows, More Cows

Excellent mobile cattle scales such as The Mobile Group Animal Scale and the Rice Lake Single Animal Livestock Scale are now available in Alberta. They are durable and easy to transport to your herd, and no matter how rugged or off-level the terrain, they will provide a Legal-for-Trade weight. These scales provide a complete report for each group of weighed animals that can be transferred to a memory stick or computer, and/or printed out for your records. Both cattle scales are low to the ground and truly designed for out-of-the-barn weighing.

Mobile Livestock Scales in Alberta

To find mobile or other customizable livestock and cattle scales in Alberta, contact Accurate Western Scale for sales, installation, calibration, and 24/7 service. Our systems facilitate the monitoring of single or multiple animals and overall herd health.