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Helen Parr and her partner Dan, live in Cambridgeshire and have 170 head of cattle on 390 acres of grass. The majority are Pedigree Herefords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve always loved the farming life and got my first full-time job on a dairy farm at the age of 15. My Dad was a contract herdsman, milking for 42 years and two of my brothers are also herdsmen. I moved to Cambridgeshire from Melton Mowbray after meeting Dan online and was doing a 70-mile round trip to work. Once we were expecting our first little lady, a change was needed so I quit work and bought some bucket reared calves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe needed a bit of help with keeping farm records and heard about Herdwatch at a show a few years back and decided to become members. The sign-up process couldn\u2019t have been easier and we had our herd downloaded from BCMS into the app in minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herdwatch has been a real lifesaver, especially when I was pregnant. I was running 170 head of beef cattle and worked throughout the pregnancy with only 2 weeks maternity leave as we found it hard to find stock-people. The Herdwatch app enabled me to still run the herd with ease and made the whole process of running a family and business much more stress free!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Calf registration in seconds<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Helen\u2019s dams mainly calf down in September and January and are brought in for calving. They have cameras in the sheds which lets Helen look after their 2 young children and keep an eye on the cows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI now register calves as soon\u00a0as they are born. It\u2019s so easy using the Herdwatch app. You\u2019re automatically logged in and you can have a calf registered using your phone in seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBefore using Herdwatch, I was terrible at keeping track of my medicine! I would always put it off until later, then totally forget! Now with Herdwatch on my phone, I do it as I’m filling the syringes, and above all, it makes me feel so much more organized. You can scan the barcode on the box or bottle, and all the relevant information pops up in front of you, so you don\u2019t need to go writing it down anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor the Hereford society, I must weigh at 200 days, 400 days and 600 days and mature cows and recording weights on Herdwatch saves so much time spent on paperwork. Previously, I would have recorded weights on the back of an envelope that would generally get lost. Now with Herdwatch, I can do it in seconds as I\u2019m weighing the cattle which tells me their average weight gain to help decide which to keep for breeding bulls and which to finish off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Breeding management<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Helen also uses Herdwatch to manage breeding, tracking heats, serves, scans and calving list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAs soon as I see an animal on heat, I log it. The vet is so impressed when it comes to scanning as logging scan results is easy too! It has made me so much more aware of infertile females also.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helen has no need to worry about compliance inspections as the Herdwatch app helps her ensure all records are captured accurately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHerdwatch completely takes the stress away, it\u2019s literally – click, print, done! Before it used to take me weeks to sort and I still hadn’t filled in the right information. An absolute godsend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I collect or deliver any stock, I just take a moment and do my movements on the spot in the Herdwatch app when still in the car!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHerdwatch has helped me become more professional when it comes to selling cattle. We get 1-2 buyers a week in the busier periods, spending time preparing the cattle, making the farm look presentable and keeping the children entertained but wouldn\u2019t get time to dig out the animal details. With Herdwatch, I have all the animal details in my hand while walking around the farm with potential buyers, be that as age, bloodlines, weight gain, progeny, and so on. There\u2019s no paper flying about, it\u2019s just so easy!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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