Vet Vision AI Dairy
Supporting Cow Comfort, lying-time and welfare insight 24/7.
30
original Sainsbury's Dairy Development farms
24/7
Welfare insight
An extra hour of lying each day is associated with around 1.5 litres more milk per cow per day.*
Cow comfort is more than the bed she lies in. How she uses her cubicle, how freely she reaches the feed face, how long she stands and how she moves around the shed - every one of these behaviours reflects a management decision, and every one shifts before yield does. Vet Vision AI watches these interactions continuously.
The Vet Vision AI Dairy app
Yesterday’s Rest & Feeding Score for the whole farm and every pen, with the lying, feeding and perching behind it. All from your phone.
Coming soon on the App Store and Google Play. Available now in your browser.
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Yesterday’s Rest & Feeding Score, with stockmanship, perching and every pen at a glance.
Every score shows the last 14 days against Optimal, and the indicators that make it up.
See each pen’s score day by day, what is behind it, and how its cows spend the day.
Stockmanship · Part of Pro
Cameras pick out the moments someone works closely with your cows. Our trained reviewers score every clip as Positive, Routine, Flagged for review or Escalate. You say who was involved, and each person builds a handling record you can train against.
The AI only finds the clips. Every verdict comes from one of our trained reviewers.
Your farm attributes each scored clip to the team member involved.
A farm score for good handling, the share of clips rated Positive or Routine, with a seven-month trend and each person’s own history.
Dairy welfare evidence
Sainsbury's public Animal Health & Welfare Report records the original Vet Vision AI trial across 30 Dairy Development Group farms, which provided Cow Comfort, lying-time and welfare insight 24/7.
Read Sainsbury's report
M&S has committed to deploying Vet Vision AI across every M&S dairy farm to monitor cow behaviour, social interactions and cow comfort as part of its 365-day welfare monitoring.
Read the M&S reportYour data stays yours. Footage from your site is stored securely, encrypted in transit and at rest, and is never sold. Nothing is shared with third parties without your permission. We are UK GDPR compliant and provide clear data processing agreements for every deployment.
Our AI models are built to a scientific standard. Every model is validated on footage it has never seen before, including animals and locations entirely absent from training, so performance figures reflect real-world conditions rather than lab results. Models are developed by veterinary researchers, benchmarked against expert assessment before deployment, and monitored continuously on live sites.
Vet Vision AI is a University of Nottingham spin-out founded by practising vets.
Questions
It is designed primarily for housed dairy herds, with flexible coverage for mixed systems, loafing areas, and seasonal shed use.
No. The value is in behaviour data, trends, reports, and guidance. The system is designed to turn footage into decisions, not create another camera feed to monitor.
We start with a dairy assessment, map the shed, plan coverage, calibrate the view, and onboard the team around the reporting workflow.
Yes. Vet Vision AI is built to make comfort and behaviour trends easier to compare across groups, sheds, sites, and seasons.
No. Vet Vision AI for Dairy gives farmers, teams, vets, and consultants better evidence between checks, so experienced people can make better decisions sooner.
Grant, R. J. (2007). Taking Advantage of Natural Behavior Improves Dairy Cow Performance. Proceedings of the Western Dairy Management Conference, Reno, Nevada, 7–9 March 2007, p. 3.
