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Could we develop drones for outdoor lambing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cow1" data-source="post: 3746484" data-attributes="member: 3853"><p>I was just doing my last check around our outdoor lambing field tonight before dark. </p><p></p><p>I had my 14 year old daughter with me as we zig zagged around the field and checked every ewe and she said "imagine if we could do all this with a drone?"</p><p></p><p>After that we had a discussion as to how it would work. Rather than it being a lazy way of checking them, I could see maybe the benefit on doing a discreet check over them especially after dark maybe using night vision.</p><p></p><p>Our current policy is to check last thing at night then first light. This generally works well as a large percentage of ewes lamb first light. I also prefer this as I don't try to disturb the ewes after dark by driving through them.</p><p></p><p>However imagine if during the night you could check them by drone and observe the odd one that does lamb during darkness. Think of it as having a massive outdoor shed with a lambing camera.</p><p></p><p>If you could link this into GPS and send it over a pre planned path it would be even better. </p><p></p><p>Would this ever work or is it just a fanciful idea of the future, a bit like hover boards and living on foreign planets?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cow1, post: 3746484, member: 3853"] I was just doing my last check around our outdoor lambing field tonight before dark. I had my 14 year old daughter with me as we zig zagged around the field and checked every ewe and she said "imagine if we could do all this with a drone?" After that we had a discussion as to how it would work. Rather than it being a lazy way of checking them, I could see maybe the benefit on doing a discreet check over them especially after dark maybe using night vision. Our current policy is to check last thing at night then first light. This generally works well as a large percentage of ewes lamb first light. I also prefer this as I don't try to disturb the ewes after dark by driving through them. However imagine if during the night you could check them by drone and observe the odd one that does lamb during darkness. Think of it as having a massive outdoor shed with a lambing camera. If you could link this into GPS and send it over a pre planned path it would be even better. Would this ever work or is it just a fanciful idea of the future, a bit like hover boards and living on foreign planets? [/QUOTE]
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