Virtual fences are they practical?

[andybob]

http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/14685/virtual-fences-for-real-livestock

 

[Mike]

Seems like I read a few years ago that the State of Virginia had a cost share plan going with some cattlemen to keep their cattle out of the tributaries of a river up there. They were trying to clean up the river.

They used a system like this but never heard how it worked.

They need to set up a system like this with some of the neighbors brammers. Bet they could jump over an imaginary line. :shock:

 

[Anonymous]

Maybe if it had a stun mode it might work... :wink: :lol:
I was up north today checking bulls-- and the temp is 87 with no breeze-- and the flys are terrible (one of the first bad fly days)...I watched a bunch of yearling steers in one big pasture (about 16 sections)-- the flys had them going so bad they were bunched into bunchs of 50-500... One bunch of about 400-500 took off running east and when they hit the 5 wire fence it just disappeared like it had never been there-- don't think no beep or moderate shock would have worked :roll:

 

[flrooster]

i agree, mike. a beep would just be a starting gun to our old wild woods cows.

 

[DJL]

We have neighbors with virtual fences.... Oh no wait a minute, make that imaginary fences! They don't hold their cattle either! :lol: :lol:

 

[nr]

An interesting idea they have. Wonder how it would work for prisons?
And what chaos if the satellite the GPS runs on goes ker-plunk.