Livestock tracking

[Richard Devon]

Bear with me on this, but does technology exist whereby some kind of tag can be fitted to stock that could be monitored by google maps or similar, so you could put a geo-fence around your property, the minute one went outside it would set off an alarm, or if there was a sudden or unusual stock movement pattern (similar to a dog attack) it would also warn the owner?

I guess maybe it does but frighteningly expensive. Presumably each tag would need a power supply and a sim card?

 

[Dry Rot]

Falconers use telemetry for tracking their birds all the time. I am out of date but the people who might be able to answer your questions are here (and, what's more. they're British!):

http://www.biotrack.co.uk/faqs.php

 

[llamedos]

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/livestock-tracking.96166/

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I believe there is a kiwi research project (Gallaghers) taking this a step further by adding a small shock unit. The idea is to create a geofence on your mobile and the cows are trained to stay in that area. Moving the cows is then just a case of redrawing the geofence.

 

[exmoor dave]

Bear with me on this, but does technology exist whereby some kind of tag can be fitted to stock that could be monitored by google maps or similar, so you could put a geo-fence around your property, the minute one went outside it would set off an alarm, or if there was a sudden or unusual stock movement pattern (similar to a dog attack) it would also warn the owner?

I guess maybe it does but frighteningly expensive. Presumably each tag would need a power supply and a sim card?

It's being worked on, including the capacity to send health data like body temperature back to base, also geo-electric-fencing using something similar to dog zapper collars.

The health stuff like temperature, rumen ph etc etc is already available I believe for use in dairy cows but I imagine is short range.


I really believe this tech is going to be a massive leap in terms of keeping more extensive stock,

Imagine being able to start the day by checking on the puter for location and temperature alerts.
Being able to draw the next grazing brake on the screen.


The flip side though......will it compliment or diminish stockman skills?


@JohnGalway is the man with a plan

 

[Tim W]

There is a Spanish company providing this service...details at home somewhere, could probably dig them out if anyone wanted them?

 

[exmoor dave]

There is a Spanish company providing this service...details at home somewhere, could probably dig them out if anyone wanted them?

Yep I'd be interested

 

[JohnGalway]

No progress to report on the GPS tracker here yet. Ceres tag looks to be the best bet but that wont be around until late 2019 afaik, Agersens do their eShepherd collar too, I think that's still in the trials stage also.

There are a couple of others that I've given up on as they've stopped responding to communications.

 

[Richard Devon]

I really believe this tech is going to be a massive leap in terms of keeping more extensive stock,

Imagine being able to start the day by checking on the puter for location and temperature alerts.
Being able to draw the next grazing brake on the screen.




@JohnGalway is the man with a plan

Yes, it would be a significant help!

This morning we had a call at early-o-clock to say sheep were out......"maybe yours, but not sure". How easy would it have been to just check the map and see if any had strayed.........and just over a week ago had some dull bi*ch let her dog chase sheep in the same field, luckily Bro caught her and the dog. Again, if an alarm could be set to go off when there were unusual stock movements......say sheep scattering......if the system could 'learn' grazing pattern movements and determine from being chased............also when the local Abduls decide to take a handful in the middle of the night for their backroom halal purposes. If it was under the skin so they couldn't cut them off it would be even better.

Anyway thanks for the feedback, something thats deffo worth watching out for.

 

[Richard Devon]

There is a Spanish company providing this service...details at home somewhere, could probably dig them out if anyone wanted them?

Also interested, Tim. Thanks

 

[Tim W]

Also interested, Tim. Thanks

Home next week.....

 

[Inky]

I use GPS trackers / invisible fencing collars on cattle, mainly due to grazing in large areas (up to 150ha).

The future will be geo-collars, Agersens have been at it a while and claim they will have a commercial system launching this year.

http://agersens.com/

 

[Doc]

As mentioned in a previous thread. Stock locator ear tags being trialled in Northern Aus on extensive runs with receivers placed every 10km. The tag/ear movement helps reinforce the RFID tech. It tells you where your stock are and if they are moving but little else. There is an application trialled linking to auto draft yards at watering points and even linking them to weigh scales at access point to draft off certain weights. Over there it'll save a lot of fuel just trying to locate them or manually draft them through the yards. I recall it was a Chinese firm developing them.