What is HealthyCow?

HealthyCow helps breed cows with improved fertility, health, and longevity.

The HealthyCow index enables farmers to find bulls that will breed even more fertile, healthier cows that stay in the herd for longer. It has been demonstrated that progeny from the top-ranking HealthyCow index show a higher health status throughout their longer lifetime.

HealthyCow is a sub-index of £PLI and is intended to be used as a secondary filter. By applying a minimum criteria for HealthyCow to the bulls remaining in your list after first applying your £PLI filter, you are ensuring that these bulls have profitable daughters due to improved genetics for health, instead of just production or efficiency.

The overall correlations between £PLI and HealthyCow index is around 0.66.