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Tannenwald Trakehner
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TANZBRISE by Windfall out of Tariana
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As the foaling season approaches, I am trying to decide if it is worthwhile to invest in a foaling camera to avoid spending six weeks sleeping on the hay. Has anyone recently purchased a system that they like?
My requirements are:
I need to monitor a 12 x 18 stall;
The stall is within 200 feet of a TV in the house where I can put a receiver;
Wireless seems the only way to go due to paving, etc.
TIA!
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Joy
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I used a monitor the last two times I had a mare ready to foal. It's absolutely worth the effort. What I did was hook up a camcorder in the barn, arranging it so that I got as much of the stall as possible (taking into account where she liked to stand), ran coax to the house (about 150 feet) and had a TV monitor in the kitchen. Everyone watched the monitor, so I didn't have to be there every moment.
The nice thing about it, too, is that because I wasn't peekiing into the stall every few minutes, the "sneaky" mare was able to have her foal without intrusion (she always held off until I was gone), and we were able to assist the maiden mare when she needed it.
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Terri
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Highly recommend the camera's. I to ran cable but am seriously considering going wireless. Had 3 mares due last year within days of each other so I also purchased a switching box. hooked the camera's to the box and the box to the vcr/tv in my bedroom.Switch would rotate between each stall displaying for about a minute each. Wake up turn on the TV make sure there is no reason to worry then roll over and go back to sleep. Your still tired but not quite as tired and when you have to work for a living every hour of sleep counts.
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automne
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Hi! as I'm a young (25years old) breeder and money is not something I have a lot, my father (who is very ingenious and wanted to make us a surprise) took one day his old camera (to make home videos......) and made for me a stand that he screwd on the sealing of the stable, and we installed a cable wire from the stable to the house (about 150ft) and take an old tv and plug the camera to the tv...
modest installations but we were able to watch my mares (and slept in the living room) and watch some movies in the same time and it was efficient and cost a total of 50$ canadian...
obviously a full wireless camera system if you can afford it is very helpfull... but our home made watching system did the job 100%...
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Since I am finally on my OWN place, I bought a wireless security system (one designed for the front gates of homes - b/w and about $79 from Walmart) and used it to monitor Tanz. WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!  It was the best money I spent! I didn't have to get out of bed to check on her so many times in the night - just had the little monitor tv on next to my regular tv - I would wake up, open one eye and check on her. The night that she had it, you could tell that it was either that night or the next day, so I just stayed up watching "real" tv as well as "mare tv" - when she went down around 12:30 or 1 or whatever it was, I just went out to her. Saw every single second of the birth.
The system has infra red (but I put up a low wattage light), can run on a battery (or electricity), is b/w (they have color ones now though), and has sound. MY barn is about 200 yards away from the house give or take a little. Picture was crystal clear, but I think that you prob need 100 yards for sound - although I found I didn't really need it. I did leave my windows open and could hear what is going on in the barn anyway.
I was tired, but not nearly as tired as I was for the other two babies!
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