Russian dairy farm fits animals with headsets to ‘improve their wellbeing’ and improve production 

A Russian dairy farm has strapped digital actuality headsets to its cows in an experiment to ‘enhance their wellbeing’ and enhance milk manufacturing. 

Farmers labored with builders, vets and consultants on the Krasnogorsk farm close to Moscow, to beam the cattle a simulation of a summer time discipline.   

The research revealed ‘decreased anxiousness and improved total emotional temper within the herd’, in line with the Ministry of Agriculture and Meals in Moscow. 

Russian dairy cows have been fitted with virtual-reality headsets, pictured, in an experiment to see whether or not the cutting-edge expertise can enhance milk manufacturing

An upcoming a part of the research will observe whether or not this ‘improved total temper’ has a optimistic impact on milk manufacturing.    

The hardware was developed by taking a human VR headset and moulding it to the specs of the animal’s head. IT specialists then tweaked the color palette within the software program to make it extra appropriate to the animal’s distinctive imaginative and prescient. 

Although not color blind, cows cannot see purple or inexperienced and solely understand uninteresting shades of yellow and blue.  

Pictured: One of many cows and a farmer on the Krasnogorsk farm close to Moscow

The Ministry of Agriculture referred to Dutch and Scottish analysis findings that ‘environmental circumstances have a major impression on cow well being and, as a consequence, the standard and amount of milk produced.’ 

They added that the agriculture trade is more and more counting on robotics to enhance the emotional welfare of cattle.  

In America, automated rotating brushes are used to therapeutic massage the cattle. In different elements of Moscow, farmers play classical music to calm down them into producing extra milk. 

In Europe, the automation of milking has allowed farmers extra time to examine the udders, hooves and common wellbeing of the herd.