Startup predicts cattle illness based on the tiniest of muzzle changes
The bumps, grooves and ridges of a cow’s muzzle are nearly invisible, but they are proving just as unique and useful as a human fingerprint can be. The skin-level details and changes of a cow muzzle are what cow tech startup MyAnIML is using to help dairy farmers and beef producers detect subclinical illness in their cattle.
“A muzzle is like a fingerprint – it’s very unique,” says researcher and founder of MyAnIML Shekhar Gupta. “In our research, we’ve identified what subtle changes in the muzzle occur as an animal starts to get sick. We’ve trained our system to pick up on that, and we provide notifications to the farmer two to three days before they look sick.”
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Read more about how MyAnIML is pioneering a computer vision approach to health detection and hear from a cattle owner in Kansas who is an early adopter of the technology.