Virtually ready for calving season
The virtual collars are all on the cows as of the first week of February. A few hiccups, but mostly just plain old miscommunication between my dad and me. I put the fences up excluding some areas, he puts the hay in that excluded area. This results in very confused cows. But beyond that so far so good. But let me back up and lay out the order of getting virtual fences to Tompkins Corner Ranch. In December we received a massive pallet of collars, towers, and counter weights. I was instructed to immediately open up the collars and get them laid out in the sun to charge up. I grabbed a few pallets and laid them on the south side of our barn to a great afternoon of sunshine. After the collars all showed a light blinking, I then needed to then get two 8-10 foot posts and setup towers at the locations that were marked out by Halter. Then I put a fence around the towers, because those are definitely getting rubbed against if I don't. ...