Know your head count and your feed without walking every field.
We count your animals by species, and the round bales, square bales and silage you have to feed them. A whole-property head count is checked against your herd records. Every count is approximate, not exact to the last animal.
Opening for commercial work in the first quarter of 2027.
A count you can act on
I count my own cattle and sheep this way in Ghent. A count that took me a morning on foot now takes minutes. Your fields get the same pass, anywhere within 100 miles of us.
When the numbers don't match
When a count covers the whole property, we compare it with your herd records and flag anything that doesn't line up. Your herd records are the number of each animal you keep, as you give them to us. Tell us when you buy or sell stock, or an animal dies, so a difference points at an animal and not at a sale we hadn't heard about.
A count that comes up short is often the first sign an animal is out. Finding it is a missing animal search.
A photo of every group
Every count comes with a photo of each group, the animals marked, so you can see what we counted before acting on it.
Your feed, counted the same way
Round and square bales, and silage: what you have to feed the herd, and what has gone since the last count.
Bales, counted like a herd
Round and square bales counted in the field or the stack yard, by kind, the way we count animals. Each count sits beside your last one, so you can see how many have gone since.
Bales under a roof aren't in the picture, and a stack only shows its outside, so we tell you when a number covers only what we could see.
Silage, measured from photos
Piles and bunkers flown in overlapping photos, which we turn into a 3D model and an estimated volume for each.
It is an estimate of feed on hand for planning, not a survey.
What happens on the day
How we fly it
Tell us which fields, and about how many animals you expect. We cover each field without doubling back. We fly high enough not to move the herd, and low enough to tell a cow from a calf.
One field takes a few minutes in the air. A whole property takes as many passes as it needs. We say how many passes to expect before we fly, and how many it took after.
What makes a count hard
Animals under thick tree cover or inside a barn aren't in the picture. The number counts only what's outside and in view, and we tell you which fields that affects.
A herd bunched shoulder to shoulder looks like fewer animals than it is. So we fly it again from another angle before we send a number. Right after feeding, a field counts worse than it will an hour later.
What a count gets you
What you get
| The count | A head count of each species, and a photo of each group with the animals marked, so you can see what we counted |
| How it reaches you | An email tells you when the count is ready, what it came to and any difference from your records. Counts are kept, so you can see the herd's history rather than one morning's number. |
| Checked against | Your herd records, when the count covers the whole property, with any difference flagged: how many, and which animal |
| Feed | Round and square bales counted by kind, and silage as an estimated volume, each set beside your last feed count |
| When | On a schedule or when you ask. How often depends on how far you are from Ghent. |
| Area | One field, or the whole property |
| Animals | Cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, goats, donkeys, alpacas |
Deer, too
Winter counts of the deer on your land, with thermal at first light or at night, once the leaves are down.
For your own records
How many deer use your fields and woods, and where, for your crop-damage records and your own care of the land.
Flown high
We count from well above them, and never follow or push the deer.