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IoT Farm: Blog 4 - Let the Fowl Frolic!

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Another update to keep you seeing movement!

 

Quick side note tomorrow I am hoping to test some Solar panels that I have been given to see if they are useable.  They were damaged but I am hoping for enough power generation that they are still viable for the IoT Farm.

 

The birds have reached a point where they have communicated that if they are not allowed access to the outside world under my control, they will try to Chicken Rush the next person who opens the main Human door to check on them.  :-)

 

Bowing to the potential of their fowl fury I have re-opened the bird access door (it was damaged during the tractor transport phase) and placed a ladder/ramp for their ease of access.  They seem to appreciate this greatly and are now less aggressive when the Human door is opened.  At first the blinding sun with 100 degree+ Fahrenheit temps seemed to make them less inclined to explore much, so I added a couple of pallet sun shade/wind breaks at either end of their house coupled with a large watering station in the shade and now they are enjoying themselves greatly.

 

Here is my wonderful wife, "mother-hen"ing the hens to be sure everyone is good to go.image

 

Here is Regan assisting with one of the Barred Rocks.image

 

Kenna with another Barred Rock.image

 

Regan posing with one of her "pretties".image

 

Stay tuned for more updates.  I am hoping that one of the solar panels will be good and can be tied into this project.

  • in reply to jkutzsch

    I agree, there are just so many little things that are more tedious to do than hard that just form your day to day routine.

     

    A process nut like me comes in and starts listing all of the things that could be either automated or set up for alert for cause.

     

    Still, in my experience, a farmer just needs to continually walk around the barn yard every day to just check out everything.

     

    A machine just cannot do that level of information absorption to realize that something is not right, even when it does not look like anything is wrong.

     

    DAB

  • in reply to DAB

    Kind of exciting to see how technology can be meshed with farming and improve things.  Although it is interesting as well to research something and find out the old non-electrical way is probably the best bang for the buck!

  • Nice post.

     

    I grew up in farming country, so I have many fond memories of working with animals and observing their habits.

     

    Thanks

    DAB