User Guide - UK 2021 — Last update: Apr 05, 2022 Nofence AS Copyright © 2022 Nofence AS
Table of Contents 1. What is good animal welfare?........................................................................................................... 1 2. How the technology works................................................................................................................ 3 2.1. The basics ................................................................................................................................ 4 2.2. The animals interacting with the system ...................
Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en 1. What is good animal welfare? The concept of animal welfare is concerned with the individual animal, the type of situation the animal is in, and how the animal experiences its situation. When animals have good welfare, they thrive. Wellbeing draws on interactions between health, environment, animal care, and the characteristics of the animal itself.
Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en as a result of its attempts to master its environment.” Within biology, ‘mastery’ is defined as the mechanisms used by an individual in order to maintain control. An animal displaying normal behaviour for its kind, thus shows signs of good physical and mental health. Nofence Grazing Technology has been developed with a focus on animal well-being. Therefore, it is vital that you are knowledgeable about your animals and take the time to learn how the technology works.
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Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en 2.1. The basics Our grazing technology consists of an app and a collar that communicate over the mobile network. In addition, we have a web portal my.nofence.no. Our technology makes it possible to monitor animals in their grazing area. The collar reports to the app every 15 minutes, and the default settings sends immediate notifications to your phone in the event of an electric pulse or escape. Download the Nofence app via AppStore or Play Store.
Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en The collar will communicate with the app via the mobile network (2G). It is therefore important that there is good mobile coverage in the Nofence pasture. The collar will send status reports to the app every 15 minutes. In addition you can ask for positions in between the reports. Incidents such as electric pulses or escapes will be sent to you as a push notification. The Nofence collar gets its positioning from available satellites.
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Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en 2.2. The animals interacting with the system When the animal crosses the Nofence boundary, the collar starts playing an audio warning. The signal is a scale of tones, which starts at a low pitch and rises gradually as long as the animal is outside the Nofence boundary. If the whole scale has been played, an electric pulse is delivered. During training the animal will turn when receiving an electric pulse to seek the safety of the herd.
Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en seconds and maximum of 20 seconds to play the full tone scale. The scope of the warning field depends on the speed of the animal as it leaves the Nofence pasture. To turn the audio warning off and avoid the electric pulse, the animal must turn around and go back to the Nofence pasture. If an animal continues to move away from the Nofence pasture, it will meet a maximum of three audio zones.
Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en 2.3. Fitting collars Watch this video to see how the collar is fitted to goats, sheep and cattle: https://www.youtube.
Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en https://www.youtube.com/embed/YxnC5P2VpRI?rel=0 Wearing a collar must be as comfortable as possible for the animal. - For cattle, the space between the animal’s neck and the collar should be the size of a clenched fist. - For sheep and goats, we recommend a slack of approximately 1.5 in / 4 cm. This equals a two finger tall gap between the animal’s neck and the neck strap.
Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en Young animals should have reached a suitable size and maturity before being introduced to Nofence. They should be strong enough to wear a collar, mature enough to understand how the system works, and big enough for the chain to be in contact with the animal’s neck.
Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en 2.4. Training animals * For your animals’ sake it is essential that the learning process is well-organised and thought-through. When the animal caretaker has prepared well for the training, the animals have a more efficient learning process, with as few electric pulses as possible. Spend time observing your animals as they undergo the training. https://www.youtube.
Nofence AS User Guide - UK - 2021_en Example of a training pasture The training pasture is fully fenced in with a physical fence. The physical fence is shown as black fence posts, while the Nofence boundary is illustrated by a red dotted line between blue corner posts. The Nofence boundary cuts off a part of the existing pasture area. We recommend cutting off a part of the pasture that the animals will seek out for grazing as they have to cross the boundary to learn how the system works.
