Bluetooth Tile Used To Track Turkeys

Bluetooth Tile Used To Track Turkeys LIVESTOCK Miscellaneous Bluetooth trackers called Tiles were created to locate keys and wallets but Victoria Strauser decided to use them to keep track of her turkeys She raises lambs rabbits and poultry for their farm-based business Meadowfed Meats www meadowfedmeats com The problem she had was with the four heritage breed Sweetgrass turkey hens that would leave the poultry barn every morning to free range “My turkey hens are prolific egg layers and always going off to tall grass so you have no idea where their nests are ” she explains Besides wanting the eggs for food Strauser doesn’t want her hens to sit on nests all night where they’re vulnerable to predators She tried to follow the hens but they wouldn’t nest when she was around So she decided to try technology and attached a Tile to the protective aprons her hens wear After they left the barn she waited half an hour to an hour before following them with her smartphone When she got within about 150 ft of the turkey she could “ring” the Tile from the app on her phone so she could hear that she was getting closer After finding the nest she would gather the eggs The only problem was that the hens kept moving their nests Strauser solved the problem by buying ceramic eggs to leave one in each hen’s nest Now they lay eggs in the same spot and she doesn’t need to track them every day Contact: FARM SHOW Follow-up Tile www thetileapp com

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