From a snapshot to continuous signal.
Health management in livestock still mostly relies on the snapshot: waiting for a symptom to appear, or for someone to be in the barn at exactly the right hour. HaloHerd keeps your records complete against TÜRKVET, VETBİS and e-Islah today, checks subsidy conditions before every cut-off date, and follows a roadmap toward continuous monitoring tied to the GEKİS identity, step by step.
HaloHerd never files anything with official systems on your behalf; it prepares the complete list you hand to your vet and union.
GEKİS secures the animal's identity; HaloHerd is rolling out continuous health monitoring tied to that identity, step by step.
Health tracking in livestock has long been a "snapshot": the animal is only seen at the moment someone looks. The model HaloHerd is moving toward is continuous signal — combining animal, barn and record data and evaluating every animal continuously against its own baseline.
- Hardware-independent
- No interference with identity
- Decision with the vet, data with the farmer
Subsidy readiness
until the 31 Dec cut-off 99 days%86 conditions met
- Calves missing dam tag no.12
- Calves with unrecorded vaccine4
- AI not entered in e-Islah3
TR160000481377
Papatya · Sick bay
Today
- 07:30TR160000481203 — pregnancy checkVet
- 09:00TR160000481377 — milk withdrawal endsCaretaker
- 14:003 calves — birth notification listOwner
Subsidy readiness
until the 31 Dec cut-off 99 days%86 conditions met
- Calves missing dam tag no.12
- Calves with unrecorded vaccine4
- AI not entered in e-Islah3
The scale is large, records are critical.
cattle1
cattle and buffalo, as of 31 Dec 2025
small ruminants1
sheep and goats, as of 31 Dec 2025
dairy farms with 200+ head2
up from 1,161 in 2016 (2021 data)
minimum survival requirement3
for calf, buffalo calf and lamb/kid subsidies
The loss shows up in the numbers.
We wait for a symptom to appear to notice illness, and for someone to be in the barn at exactly the right hour to catch heat. Field studies and official statistics from Turkey show the cost of that delay.
414–469 days
Calving interval
target 365–395 days
Öztürk & Sipahi, Western Mediterranean dairy farms, MAKÜ J. Vet. Fac., 2021
131–186 days
Service period (calving to conception)
target ~85–115 days
Öztürk & Sipahi, MAKÜ J. Vet. Fac., 2021
15.65%
Clinical mastitis (Holstein)
Erzincan province
Harran Univ. J. Vet. Fac., 2022
10%
Subclinical ketosis
Ardahan province
Kocatepe Vet. J., 2020
13.3%
Calf mortality
Kayseri, Develi
Küçükoflaz & Sarıözkan, Erciyes Univ. J. Vet. Fac., 2023
21.4 million tonnes
Raw milk production (2025)
down 4.9% year-on-year
TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute), Milk and Dairy Products Production bulletins
Heat stress is a separate loss item: the Turkish State Meteorological Service's SINEP programme shows annual stress hours in the thousands in some regions; Çelik (2021) found a marked rise in daily per-cow milk loss in Diyarbakır during summer.
With GEKİS, 17.7 million cattle are gaining a secure digital identity. That builds the infrastructure to track loss at the individual-animal level — HaloHerd is rolling out continuous monitoring tied to that identity, step by step.
Cost per case
Average cost per case, drawn from international peer-reviewed studies:
| Clinical mastitis | first 30 days; 71% is indirect cost — milk loss and early culling | $444 |
| Metritis | average per case | $511 |
| Ketosis and related disorders | total | $289 |
| Stillbirth | per case | $938 |
| Open day | per cow, per day | $2–5 |
Rollin et al., Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2015 · Pérez-Báez et al., Journal of Dairy Science, 2021 · McArt et al., Journal of Dairy Science, 2015 · Mahnani et al., Animal, 2018 · Rollin et al., 2015; Pérez-Báez et al., 2021
Insurance and public funds
Cattle life insurance issued 422,524 policies and 9.10 billion TL in premiums in 2024. The state covered half of that, 4.55 billion TL. The same year, 3.68 billion TL in claims were paid out. Catching death and disease early directly protects that public spend.
TARSİM, 2024 Annual Report
The timing is not a coincidence.
The identity layer, a shift in the hardware market, and field-pilot experience are all maturing at the same time.
The identity layer is in place
GEKİS went live in Kars on 7 August 2026; system officers in all 81 provinces completed training. Official messaging targets future use of GEKİS data in AI-assisted health and productivity analysis; that analysis layer is not yet defined.
HAYGEM, GEKİS provincial officer training, April 2026; Anadolu Agency, GEKİS Kars launch, August 2026
Hardware to data: Halter
New Zealand-based Halter reached 1 million collars sold and raised funding at a $2 billion valuation in March 2026.
Halter, Series E announcement, March 2026
Hardware to data: Connecterra
Dutch Connecterra handed off its sensor business in 2023 to focus entirely on software and decision support.
Hoard's Dairyman, Connecterra and Datamars, 2023
No multi-brand data layer in Turkey
Commercial farms run imported systems; domestic systems are closed and tied to their own hardware. In the US, platforms like VAS bring together 50+ sensors in one place; Turkey has no equivalent.
VAS platform, public product listing
Field-pilot experience is building
Burdur's "Integrated Preventive Veterinary Care" pilot (September 2026), covering 15,650 family farms and 194,500 cattle, shows how much the field needs this model of preventive care.
Burdur Integrated Preventive Veterinary Care pilot, September 2026
From sensor to decision.
HaloHerd is not a sensor manufacturer; it's the analytics layer that can take in sensor data from different brands, link it to the GEKİS identity, and turn it into a decision. Today's panel runs without sensors; this architecture applies to the continuous-monitoring modules on the roadmap.
Neck collar and rumen bolus, not the ear
Neck collar and rumen bolus are the sensor placements under evaluation; an ear sensor is not preferred. Ear sensors share the same location as the GEKİS tag — that can trigger the tag's tamper detection and disrupt UHF read performance. A neck collar and rumen bolus never touch the tag.
Sensor rotation
A dedicated sensor per animal isn't required: because sensors are reusable, they can move between animals during the riskiest stages of lactation. We're researching a roughly 60-sensors-per-100-cows ratio; this hasn't been finalised.
Pairing with GEKİS
- 1While fitting the sensor, the farmer scans the GEKİS tag's NFC chip with a phone.
- 2From that moment, the sensor is matched to that animal's GEKİS identity.
- 3The GEKİS tag remains the lifelong identity; the sensor stays reusable.
This is a scan/match flow; GEKİS has no public API, and HaloHerd is not an official GEKİS integration.
Your whole herd, one panel.
No sensor required. From the barn on a phone, from the office on a computer.
The missing list, before the cut-off date.
Before the 31 December, 15 February, 1 July and 1 August cut-off dates, HaloHerd ranks animals that fail subsidy conditions: calves missing a dam ear-tag number, animals with unrecorded vaccinations, inseminations not entered in e-Islah, milk measurements below 60%.
- Checked against calf, buffalo calf and lamb/kid conditions
- Insemination–birth interval check: 210–295 days
- Exportable report for your vet and union
An animal that fails to meet the condition in two payment periods is permanently excluded from that subsidy (Communiqué Art. 4/1-e).
Subsidy readiness
until the 31 Dec cut-off 99 days%86 conditions met
- Calves missing dam tag no.12
- Calves with unrecorded vaccine4
- AI not entered in e-Islah3
- Latest milk-measurement coverage58%
At a glance: what's missing, what's urgent.
Sample screen — data shown is illustrative.
Active animals
248
Milking cows
142
Pregnant
61
In withdrawal
4
Subsidy readiness
until the 31 Dec cut-off 99 days%86 conditions met
- Calves missing dam tag no.12
- Calves with unrecorded vaccine4
- AI not entered in e-Islah3
- Latest milk-measurement coverage58%
Monthly milk-measurement coverage
%60Animals
| TR160000481203 | Sarıkız | Milking-1 | Pregnant · day 187 |
| TR160000481377 | Papatya | Sick bay | Withdrawal · 2 days |
| TR160000481412 | Menekşe | Dry | 12 days to calving |
| TR16030001145 | Lamb 1145 | Small ruminant-A | Vaccine missing |
Today
- 07:30TR160000481203 — pregnancy checkVet
- 09:00TR160000481377 — milk withdrawal endsCaretaker
- 14:003 calves — birth notification listOwner
One number, six reasons.
The Halo Score logic HaloScape uses for human health is adapted for animals: a single 0–100 score built from six sub-scores. The score is not a diagnosis — it is a risk signal; the final decision always belongs to the veterinarian.
Six sub-scores
Reproduction
Activity increase, heat, rumination, days in milk, insemination history.
Metabolic health
Rumination and eating time, rumen temperature; weight gain in the first 30 days post-calving.
Udder health
Milk conductivity, somatic cell count, milking duration.
Movement and behaviour
Step count, lying time, lameness indicators.
Environmental stress
Barn THI measurement and weather forecast combined with the animal's own heat response.
Records and preventive care
GEKİS events (calving, vaccination, movement) and veterinary visits.
Design principles
Personal baseline
Every animal is compared to its own baseline; there are no fixed herd-wide thresholds.
Weighting by lactation stage
Sub-score weighting shifts with lactation stage: metabolic and udder health lead during transition, reproduction leads on days 40–150.
Breed and parity normalisation
Scores are normalised by breed and parity; a Holstein and a Simmental are not judged by the same yardstick.
Explained alerts
Every alert clearly shows the factors that drove it the most.
The Animal Health Score is not a diagnosis — it is a risk signal; examination, diagnosis and treatment belong to the veterinarian.
Beyond dairy cattle.
The continuous-monitoring model isn't limited to dairy cattle — it creates value for feedlots, insurers, dairy processors and public support programmes alike.
Feedlot operations
A sudden drop in activity and feed intake is one of the earliest signs of illness. For feedlots, HaloHerd's value is isolating a sick animal before it spreads through the pen and cutting mortality losses. Data collection starts alongside dairy in Phase 1; the commercial module opens in Phase 2.
Insurance
A continuously monitored herd is lower-risk and easier for an insurer to verify claims against. TARSİM's tariff today gives a 15% discount for a "disease-free farm"; there is no discount yet tied to sensor-based monitoring. Our goal is to measure the effect on the claims/premium ratio through a joint pilot, and to open the door, with data, to a similar discount line for a "monitored herd". HaloScape's insurance vertical, HaloGuard, brings its risk-stratification experience directly into this work.
TARSİM, 2025 Cattle Life Insurance Tariff and Instructions
Dairy processors and the supply chain
Udder health, antibiotic use and animal welfare on supplier farms translate directly into milk quality and export compliance. HaloHerd can scale through a "farm support programme" model, where the processor subsidises licences for supplier farms; the same data can feed sustainability reporting.
Public support and agricultural finance
Livestock subsidies, subsidised loans and animal-distribution programmes like "Kırsalda Bereket" all create a need to verify that a supported animal is actually alive and in production. Continuous health data tied to the GEKİS identity provides a reliable evidence layer for monitoring subsidy and loan portfolios.
The return on continuous monitoring.
Independent, peer-reviewed studies have measured the economic impact of automated health monitoring. These figures are drawn from international literature; they are not HaloHerd's own Turkey-specific field validation — that will be measured in the planned pilot.
€19–46
net gain per cow per year
highest on large herds and farms with weak heat detection
Pfeiffer et al., Journal of Dairy Science, 2020
$11.4
per-cow difference (first 100 days)
randomised controlled trial, 1,192 cows
Rial et al., Journal of Dairy Science, 2026
8 years
payback period (example farm)
130-cow farm in the Netherlands
Rutten et al., Journal of Dairy Science, 2014
The same studies show most of the gain comes from reproduction; health alerts alone do not cover the investment. Hardware cost and sensor rotation directly determine the return.
Indicative price ranges.
| Per-animal subscription (dairy cow) | Dairy farms with 30+ head | 60–100 TL/cow/month |
| Family-farm package | 1–30 head, via provincial unions | Fixed monthly package |
| Veterinarian panel | Independent vets and clinics | Monthly licence for up to 50 farms |
| Enterprise programme | Dairy processors, insurers, lenders, public programmes | Annual fee per monitored animal, or project fee |
Prices are indicative and will be finalised during the Phase 1 pilot; they are not a commitment today.
Member-farm record quality, one screen.
Breeder unions and cooperatives see aggregate subsidy-readiness status across member farms, to the extent each member allows: which farm has how many incomplete records, which cut-off is approaching. Instead of reaching small farms one by one, the union's technician provides first-line support.
Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Agricultural Organisations 2024
Permissioned visibility
The union sees, read-only, only the farms a member has opened up.
Aggregate gap list
A per-member breakdown of missing records before the cut-off date.
Union-wide licence
A single licence for the union; small farms don't need individual contracts.
Speaks the same language as official systems.
Official animal-record systems have no public API. HaloHerd therefore doesn't promise automatic filing — instead it keeps your records field-for-field with the official schema and makes import/export easy.
HBS / TÜRKVET
Tag number, birth, sex, dam tag number, transfer and death fields match the official schema.
VETBİS
Vaccination and disease records; missing-vaccine list.
e-Islah
Insemination and monthly milk measurement; 120-day counter.
GEKİS
Linked to the animal's identity by scanning or matching the tag; not an official integration.
HaloHerd is not an official product of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry or of any union, and does not connect to these systems directly.
The data is yours, the decision is the vet's.
Every step HaloHerd takes toward continuous monitoring holds to the same principles — for today's panel and for every module on the roadmap.
Physical security
No device is ever attached to the GEKİS ear tag; its read performance and tamper detection are unaffected.
Data sovereignty
Data processing follows KVKK; national ID numbers are never stored, and access is role-based. Data is hosted in Google Cloud's Europe region; under KVKK Article 9, standard contractual clauses (SCC) and a data processing agreement (DPA) are in place.
Farmer consent
Data is shared only with the farm owner's explicit consent and only for the stated purpose; consent can be withdrawn at any time.
Professional boundaries
Examination, diagnosis and treatment belong to the veterinarian under Law No. 6343. HaloHerd does not offer a diagnosis or a treatment recommendation — it produces a risk signal. Suspected notifiable disease is routed to the reporting process required by Law No. 5996.
Sensor transparency
The origin of any sensor used is stated clearly. The platform is not tied to a specific hardware vendor.
Relationship with GEKİS
HaloHerd is not an official GEKİS product or integration. It links to the animal's identity by scanning or matching the GEKİS tag; it does not write data to official systems on your behalf.
Certifications
We hold ISO 27001 (information security), ISO 27701 (privacy management), ISO 42001 (AI management system) and ISO 15504 (software process) certifications.
Health and risk alerts are not a diagnosis; the final decision always rests with the veterinarian (Law No. 6343).
Phase by phase, validated in the field.
The records and subsidy-readiness panel is live today. The move to continuous monitoring happens in the field, in validated, incremental steps; sensor sourcing and dates are not yet finalised.
Phase 1
Oct 2026 – Dec 2027Dairy cattle
On top of the live records and subsidy-readiness panel, continuous monitoring modules tied to the GEKİS identity are being evaluated. The pilot will be limited to a small number of farms, in a region where GEKİS is deployed, during winter housing.
Preparation and pilot planningPhase 2
H2 2027 – 2028Small ruminants & feedlot
Sensorless modules first for small ruminants: parasite-load tracking (FAMACHA), lameness scoring, lambing records. Monitoring of representative animals in large or migratory flocks depends on electronic identity extending to small ruminants.
Depends on Phase 1 outcomesPhase 3
2028 onwardInternational
International expansion is under evaluation; no market or date commitment today.
Under evaluationPreparation (Oct–Nov 2026)
- ·Veterinary faculty partnerships: Kafkas University, Bursa Uludağ University
- ·Sensor sourcing research and discussions
- ·Technical discussions with relevant institutions on GEKİS
Funding
Applications are planned to TÜBİTAK 1005 (18 months, up to 1.2 million TL) and TAGEM R&D calls.
Pilot success criteria
| Reduction in open days | At least 10 days |
| Metabolic-disorder alert | Sensitivity ≥85%, ≥1.5 days before symptoms |
| GEKİS read rate | No degradation |
| False alarms | Weekly count per 100 cows reported and reduced |
| Veterinarian acceptance rate | Share of alerts confirmed by vets is tracked |
Open questions, managed openly.
The continuous-monitoring modules on the roadmap depend on deliberately managing the risks below.
| GEKİS's third-party data access and API are not yet defined | Operate independently at first via NFC matching; hold integration talks with relevant institutions |
| Sensor price stretches out the payback period | Hardware-independent design, sensor rotation, deals for affordable sensors |
| Pedometer and collar performance can drop in tie-stall barns | Separate measurement by barn type during the pilot; bolus as a fallback if needed |
| Alert fatigue from false positives | Personal baseline, multi-signal decisions, a model that learns from vet feedback |
| No veterinary expertise on the team | Faculty partnership and a veterinary advisor ahead of the pilot |
| Connectivity on highland and open pasture | NB-IoT coverage will be measured in the field in Phase 2; satellite IoT is being tracked |
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Official systems have no public interface, and farmers don't enter data into them directly — that's done by the official vet, the provincial/district directorate, or the union. HaloHerd prepares the complete, on-time list you hand to them.
Have another question? Write to our team
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Knowing what's missing before the cut-off date is the difference between getting that period's subsidy and not.
Let's check your herd's records, together.
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