Livestock and fence checks
The daily round without the drive
Drones walk the fence line, count the herd and flag animals that are injured, missing or lying unusually still.
What this costs today
Checking outlying grazing means a drive, a gate, a walk and an hour, every day, in all weather. Most days nothing is wrong. The days something is wrong, the delay between the fence going down and somebody noticing is the whole problem.
How the flight runs
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Patrol
A fixed route covers the fence line and the grazing block on a schedule.
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Count
Animals are counted and compared against the number the block should hold.
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Assess
Thermal and visual signatures flag animals that are separated, lame, or lying still when the herd is grazing.
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Report
A short summary lands after each patrol, with photographs of anything that needs a human decision.
What the aircraft carries
- Radiometric thermal camera
- Zoom RGB camera
- RTK positioning
Daily or twice daily through the grazing season.
What you receive
- Head count per block
- Fence condition log
- Flagged animal list with imagery
- Grazing pressure map
What it measures
Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.
- Head count against expected
- Fence sections flagged
- Animals flagged per patrol
- Time from patrol to report
Where this carries the most weight
All use cases-
Grassland and silage
Thermal fawn searches ahead of first cut, sward quality mapping, and reseeding where the ground has gone back.
Fields of 2 to 40 hectares, flown at dawn.
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Dairy and grazing livestock
Daily head counts, fence line inspection and flagged animals, without the drive to every outlying block.
Grazing platforms of 20 to 300 hectares, docks placed by battery range.
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Cooperatives and large estates
Fleet coverage across scattered blocks, comparable numbers between holdings, and reporting that rolls up cleanly.
2,000 to 40,000 hectares across scattered member blocks.