Heat detection

Identify more cows in heat and improve your artificial insemination (AI) rates with our heat detection patches.

Identify more cows in heat

Increase your productivity and profits with good heat detection.

Increase your productivity and profits with good heat detection. Cows that calve early to AI can help provide your replacements and put more milk solids in the vat the following year.

Accurate heat detection can give you:

an accelerated rate of getting cows in-calf
a tighter calving spread
more days in milk
a reduction in missed heats
increased profitability
a reduction in lost revenue from lower milk production and wasted artificial insemination.

If a cow is on heat, dye is released and the patch changes colour — making it easy for you to see which cows are on heat.

LIC Heat Patch Plus

Our premium heat detection aid for easy heat identification — it’s made with new technology, so the dye can bleed right to the edges of the patch. This makes it highly visible, and can indicate the length of time the cow has been on heat.

LIC Heat Patch Plus is:

made with new technology, allowing dye to bleed to the edges of the patch
highly visible
highly accurate
easy to interpret
self-adhesive — no glue required
available in red, pink and blue
available in packs of 50.

LIC Heat Patch

When LIC Heat Patches are activated, the dye spreads through the central chamber, changing colour and indicating a heat.

LIC Heat Patches are:

cost-effective
easy to use
highly accurate
self-adhesive — no glue required.
easy to interpret
available in red and blue
available in packs of 50.

KAMAR Heatmount detectors

KAMAR Heatmount detectors are pressure-activated. The dye spreads through the central chamber, changing colour and indicating a heat, making them easy to use and highly visible.

KAMAR Heatmount detectors are:

simple to use and interpret
available in two options: Peel and glue option (packs of 20 or 80) and Classic (packs of 25 or 100).

Bulls-i®

Bulls-i detectors are our most cost effective form of heat detection aid. The silver layer is removed when mating activity occurs to reveal a fluorescent colour.

self-adhesive – no glue required
easy to spot
available in five colours – red, yellow, pink, green, blue
available in packets of 50.

LIC Heat Patch

Pricing effective 1 January 2024.

A channel and chamber heat detection aid.

Quantity	Price per unit
Quantity 1-999	Price per unit $2.75
Quantity 1000-2999	Price per unit $2.65
Quantity 3000-5999	Price per unit $2.50
Quantity 6000-9999	Price per unit $2.25
Quantity 10,000+	Price per unit $2.10

A $35 urgent dispatch fee is applied to any orders requiring same-day dispatch.

A $110 cancellation fee is applied to detector orders applied after dispatch to field.

Additional orders to ones that have been dispatched will be treated as new orders.

All prices exclude GST.

LIC Heat Patch Plus

LIC's premium heat detection aid.

Quantity	Price per unit
Quantity 1-999	Price per unit $3.00
Quantity 1000-2999	Price per unit $2.90
Quantity 3000-5999	Price per unit $2.75
Quantity 6000-9999	Price per unit $2.50
Quantity 10,000+	Price per unit $2.35

A $35 urgent dispatch fee is applied to any orders requiring same-day dispatch.

A $110 cancellation fee is applied to detector orders applied after dispatch to field.

Additional orders to ones that have been dispatched will be treated as new orders.

All prices exclude GST.

LIC® Bulls-i®

Bulls-i detectors are LIC's most cost-effective form of heat detection aid.

Quantity	Price per unit
Quantity 1-999	Price per unit $2.10
Quantity 1000-2999	Price per unit $2.00
Quantity 3000-5999	Price per unit $1.85
Quantity 6000-9999	Price per unit $1.60
Quantity 10,000+	Price per unit $1.45

A $35 urgent dispatch fee is applied to any orders requiring same-day dispatch.

A $110 cancellation fee is applied to detector orders applied after dispatch to field.

Additional orders to ones that have been dispatched will be treated as new orders.

All prices exclude GST.

KAMAR® Heatmount® Detectors - Classic

Have been available to New Zealand farmers for more than 30 years.

Quantity	Price per unit
Quantity 1-999	Price per unit $2.70
Quantity 1000-2999	Price per unit $2.60
Quantity 3000-5999	Price per unit $2.45
Quantity 6000-9999	Price per unit $2.20
Quantity 10,000+	Price per unit $2.05

KAMAR Heatmount Detectors - Classic

packets of 25 include glue tube, applicator, spreader and instruction sheet.
packets of 100 include 2 glue cartridges, 4 applicators, 2 spreaders, 1 glue cap, 1 solvent wipe and instruction sheet.

A $35 urgent dispatch fee is applied to any orders requiring same-day dispatch.

A $110 cancellation fee is applied to detector orders applied after dispatch to field.

Additional orders to ones that have been dispatched will be treated as new orders.

All prices exclude GST.

KAMAR Heatmount detectors - Peel 'n Glue

Have been available to New Zealand farmers for more than 30 years.

Quantity	Price per unit
Quantity 1-999	Price per unit $2.85
Quantity 1000-2999	Price per unit $2.75
Quantity 3000-5999	Price per unit $2.60
Quantity 6000-9999	Price per unit $2.35
Quantity 10000+	Price per unit $2.20

KAMAR Heatmount detectors - Peel 'n Glue

packets of 20 include glue tube, applicator, spreader and instruction sheet.
packets of 80 include 1 glue cartridges, 1 applicator, 2 spreaders, 1 glue cap, 1 solvent wipe and instruction sheet.

A $35 urgent dispatch fee is applied to any orders requiring same-day dispatch.

A $110 cancellation fee is applied to detector orders applied after dispatch to field.

Additional orders to ones that have been dispatched will be treated as new orders.

All prices exclude GST.

Only available to farmers in New Zealand.

Heat detection patches supplied by LIC are only an aid. It is best practice that they are used in conjunction with industry recommended heat detection methods.

For more information on recommended heat detection methods please read the following article by Dairy NZ:

Improving heat detection