Smart Cow Collars

I'd love to have this for goats or sheep. We have a bunch of trees and other vegetation on our property so fences would be a pain. If I could set up virtual fences and shift them around the yard it would be fantastic.

There are a lot of places where I see complicated fencing put up to manage cattle in parks where this would be extremely nice as well. Instead of breaking up a nice park with barbed wire to protect areas you could geo-fence them off.

Re: Smart Cow Collars

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Post by gruez » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:13 PM UTC

renewiltord wrote: post #3

Very cool. I wonder if one day we'll have neuralink technology down so commonplace that we could just RC animals directly.

>that we could just RC animals directly

...including humans?

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Post by fiftyfifty » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:16 PM UTC

ogre_codes wrote: post #4

I'd love to have this for goats or sheep. We have a bunch of trees and other vegetation on our property so fences would be a pain. If I could set up virtual fences and shift them around the yard it would be fantastic. There are a lot of places where I see complicated fencing put up to manage cattle in parks where this would be extremely nice as well. Instead of breaking up a nice park with barbed wire to protect area…

I would love to see this kind of technology take off. In the western US there is barbed wire everywhere, even on public land.

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Post by __john » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:23 PM UTC

I don't mean to be a pessimist but I believe the cows will get the collars hung on whatever they can and either tear them off, or if they're not strong enough; be stuck until they are found or die.

Edit, I suppose it could work on a dairy where a human works with the animal every day. I would be curious to know how often these things break.

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Post by Uhhrrr » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:29 PM UTC

How do they learn the sound cues? Electric shocks?

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Post by hammock » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

What problem is this solving? Is a fence too expensive?

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Post by krab » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

Uhhrrr wrote: post #8

How do they learn the sound cues? Electric shocks?

It seems so:

> we instead use sound to replicate a fence line with a pulse used during the initial training period to help a cow understand the meaning of sound