A farmer from Turkey mentioned he's simulating inexperienced pastures on digital actuality headsets to cut back the cows' stress in an try and have them produce extra milk.
İzzet Koçak mentioned his household has been within the agriculture business for 3 generations and that he cares for greater than 180 cows. Along with having his cows put on VR headsets, Koçak additionally has the cows take heed to classical music to be able to maintain their stress ranges lowered.
He informed Turkish information outlet Anadolu Ajansi he simulates varied inexperienced pastures on the headsets so the cows really feel that they're exterior and is nice for his or her psychological wellbeing.
"We get a median of twenty-two liters of milk per day from the cows in our farm," Koçak mentioned within the video which was translated into English. "The milk common of the 2 cows [that] wore digital actuality glasses was as much as 27 liters."
Koçak mentioned he was influenced by a farm in Russia that fitted its cows with digital actuality glasses. In 2019, the cows in Moscow had been fitted with a prototype digital actuality headset that simulated inexperienced grass in an try and see if it might scale back their anxiousness.
"They're watching a inexperienced pasture and it provides them an emotional enhance," Koçak mentioned. "They're much less confused."
In line with the Ministry of Agriculture and Meals of the Moscow Area, this might be a possible resolution for the present issues in milk manufacturing.
"Examples of dairy farms from completely different nations present that in a peaceful ambiance, the amount, and typically the standard, of milk will increase markedly," a assertion mentioned.
In line with the ministry, knowledge from Wageningen College within the Netherlands discovered that environmental circumstances had a severe influence on the well being of the cows which elevated the general yield and high quality of milk.
Koçak mentioned he tried the VR glasses on two animals at first and adopted them round for 2 days. He informed Anadolu Ajansi that his cow that gave 22 liters of milk produced 27 liters after carrying the glasses.
He additionally mentioned the animals had been much less confused and that they yielded larger high quality milk. He mentioned that he contacted the corporate that produces the glass in Russia and ordered 10 extra pairs for his different cattle.
"Hopefully, if we're profitable in all 10 cows, we are going to order glasses from Russia for all of our herd," he mentioned.
In line with the Ministry of Agriculture, the builders of the headsets collaborated with manufacturing consultants and veterinarians to reconstruct a pair of human VR glasses for the cow's head form.
The builders additionally referenced quite a few research of cattle imaginative and prescient which has proven that cows understand reddish tones higher than greens and blues. With this data, the VR architects constructed a novel subject simulation program that makes the cows really feel like they're exterior.
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