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Maybe there would be a way to have the males positively charged and the females negatively charged or grounded (very very small amounts of charge) so that there would be a drop in charge on the male when it comes in contact with a female, still would be a type of capacitive sensing but might be what you would be looking for. the biggest problem with all of this is any time that the animals are standing in mud that is deep enough to ground there is going to be false positives. other than that maybe some sort of individual gps tags that would show when two of the animals were within close contact of each other, in that case you could have individual identifiers for each tag so you would know the males and the females and then only have it activate to give a reading when the two had been together for more than just a split second to help weed out false positives. or find some way to run small magnets and hall effect sensors to an area on each animal that would be close together while the mating was in progress. just some ideas but I hope they help, I also come from a farming area (my father has a couple of farms) so I completely understood what you were getting after. anyways hope it helps

littleben1  wrote:

Maybe there would be a way to have the males positively charged and the females negatively charged

No too much charge though. I'm sure neither of them would appreciate a spark. It bad enough on your finger after walking over a synthetic carpet.

littleben1  wrote:

Maybe there would be a way to have the males positively charged and the females negatively charged

No too much charge though. I'm sure neither of them would appreciate a spark. It bad enough on your finger after walking over a synthetic carpet.

yeah that's kind of what was going through my head too, so was thinking a very, very small charge