A farmer has fitted his cooped-up cows with digital actuality goggles to make them assume they’re outdoors in summer season pastures.
Izzet Kocak has tried out the headsets on two of his cattle after a research instructed the nice scenes make the cows happier and produce extra milk.
And he informed The Solar the tactic had produced some good outcomes, with output growing from 22 litres of 27 litres a day.
Izzet, a cattle farmer from Aksaray, Turkey mentioned: ‘They’re watching a inexperienced pasture and it provides them an emotional enhance. They’re much less harassed.’
A farmer has fitted his cooped-up cows with digital actuality goggles to make them assume they’re outdoors in summer season pastures
Photographs from his cow shed present one of many bovines sporting the goggles whereas fortunately munching on grass.
Commenters on-line have in contrast the pictures to ‘scenes from the traditional sci-fi film The Matrix’.
The headsets had been developed with vets and first examined on a farm in Moscow.
Farmers labored with builders, vets and consultants on the Krasnogorsk farm close to Moscow, to beam the cattle a simulation of a summer season discipline.
Izzet Kocak, a cattle farmer from Aksaray, Turkey mentioned: ‘They’re watching a inexperienced pasture and it provides them an emotional enhance. They’re much less harassed.’
Photographs from his cow shed present one of many bovines sporting the goggles whereas fortunately munching on grass
The research revealed ‘lowered anxiousness and improved general emotional temper within the herd’, in response to the Ministry of Agriculture and Meals in Moscow.
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.
The Ministry of Agriculture referred to Dutch and Scottish analysis findings that ‘environmental situations have a major affect on cow well being and, as a consequence, the standard and amount of milk produced.’
Izzet, who has additionally beforehand performed his 180 animals classical music to calm down them, added that he plans to purchase ten extra headsets.