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Drawing the line: Virtual fences trigger the same cattle behavior as physical ones

Virtual fences could make managing grazing livestock on farms more flexible and more efficient while improving animal welfare.

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Virtual fences could make managing grazing livestock on farms more flexible and more efficient while improving animal welfare. A new study by the University of Göttingen shows that virtual fences trigger behavior in cattle similar to that caused by conventional electric fences, in terms of how they move around the field. This finding puts commonly expressed…

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