Efficient animal
- Daily production 67.0 lbs
- Daily feed consumed 42.7 lbs
- Feed conversion ratio 1.57 lbs milk / lb feed
- Rumen efficiency 10.4 g CH₄ / kg milk
- C-Lock score 77 / 100
Feed accounts for up to 70% of a livestock producer's total operating cost — yet most operations have no way to know which individual animals are converting that feed into profit and which ones are burning it.
C-Lock changes that. By measuring feed efficiency at the individual animal level, we give you the data to breed better, feed smarter, and cull with confidence.
Avg. percentage of operating cost allocated toward feed
Range in feed efficiency between most and least feed efficient animal in a pen.
15 extra pounds of feed per day for essentially the same production. That's $869 per year, per animal — $2,348 over her lifetime. Multiply that across your bottom quartile and the number gets uncomfortable fast. On a 1,000-animal operation, the gap between your top and bottom 25% is $468,000 every single year.
What C-Lock Delivers
Not last month. Not at the end of the season. Today — with a specific dollar amount attached to each animal. No other tool delivers this at the individual animal level in real time.
Dry her off. Call the vet. Watch her. Cull her. The action is built into the measurement — based on their specific data, not a calendar or a herd average. No interpretation required.
Milk. Muscle. Fat. Heat. Every competitor tells you what you fed. Only C-Lock tells you what each animal did with it — physically impossible to measure any other way.
Your banker. Your packer. Your nutritionist. Measured, auditable, peer-reviewed — not a model, not an estimate. The same measurement that tracks daily profit also produces defensible emissions data.
Your Operation. Your Numbers.
The four solutions above apply to every producer. Below is specific to your operation.
Every cow in your herd has a feed bill and a milk check. Some cover theirs. Some don't. Your herd average can't tell you which is which. Flux can.
Metabolic Efficiency Index Ranks each animal in your herd by how efficiently it converts feed into milk, helping you quickly identify your most and least profitable producers.
Dry-off timing driven by data, not a calendar A calendar treats every cow the same. C-Lock flags the specific day she crosses below break-even level, on average 40 days before the calendar would act.
Health flag before clinical signs appear Milk drops before intake during health events. A mid-lactation cow below 65% of expected ECM gets a Health Check flag — not a dry-off order.
Robot integration — automated at scale 55,000–75,000 visits per robot per year. Every visit scored. Every cow tracked. Daily report in your inbox every morning.
Two steers side by side. One is building muscle. The other is burning your feed as heat and fat you didn't intend to put there yet. Your pen average can't see it. Flux can.
CGI ranking — cost of gain per animal Every animal in your contemporary group ranked by actual cost of gain. Not pen averages. Individual animals. The spread between top and bottom quartile is your opportunity.
Caloric Efficiency Calculator Identifies which animals efficiently convert feed calories into meat gain and which waste energy as heat, helping you pinpoint costly inefficiencies within your herd.
Days to Finish 100+ days separates your most and least efficient animals in the same contemporary group. Stop guessing which one is ready. Measure it.
Efficiency drives profitability Identifying your most efficient animals provides value down the chain. Feed savings. Breeding decisions. Marketing value. Ration evaluation. Measuring efficiency drives it all.
Your C-Lock system is set up in your pen or animal management area, integrating easily into your existing operation.
As animals use the system, it automatically collects individual data on intake, efficiency and performance with minimal added labor.
Get clear, straightforward information, like average daily gain, feed efficiency, and herd rankings, so you can quickly spot trends, top performers, and those falling behind.
Use that information to guide breeding, feeding, and replacement decisions, helping you improve efficiency, increase profits, and make decisions backed by data.
C-Lock’s emissions monitoring solutions are designed to accurately measure and analyze enteric methane and other emissions from livestock. Our GreenFeed system measures the following emissions from ruminant animals:
Our performance monitoring solutions are designed to deliver precise, individual animal data to better understand intake behavior, growth, and overall efficiency. Our SmartLine systems work together to continuously measure feed intake, water consumption, and body weight at the individual animal level.
Speak with a C-Lock representative and we’ll show what flux measurements look like on your operation - your animals, your feed cost, your numbers.
