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.
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 reportHow it works
Map the shed, install the coverage, then start turning behaviour into practical welfare evidence.
Three-step rollout
From shed map to daily comfort evidence
01
We map the groups, resting areas, feed face and pressure points that shape cow comfort.
02
We install camera coverage around the shed areas that matter most.
03
Your team gets Cow Comfort, lying-time and welfare insight without watching footage all day.
Today
Comfort report
Lying
+18
Feed
94
Space
3
Your 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.
