technical background

The aim of Infinity Fence is to increase the efficiency of feeding of livestock in the field and to provide improved conditions for livestock and reduce the environmental impact of feeding livestock.

Background: With increasing Government regulation controlling the winter feeding of livestock and the National Policy Statement for Fresh Water Management, we need to make better use of the land we already graze and use it with an improved environmental outcome. Current farm practices for the field grazing of animal livestock and including the feeding of cows and sheep, typically entail feeding the stock in a rotational way around a farm, which is broken into paddocks or fields with permanent fences. These fields may also be sub-divided by using Break-fencing, which uses temporary fencing to divide the field and contain the livestock in a defined part of the field. Containment of the livestock is done to ration food to the livestock and in some cases to allow for regrowth or cultivation of the unoccupied spaces in the farm.

Infinity MovingFence's aim to improve the following problems associated with these current farming practices:

a) Livestock tramples and damages a large amount of the feed while spreading out over the field.

b) Livestock excrement over valuable uneaten feed, which leads to waste and poor animal health.

c) The quantity, consistency, and quality of feed available to the animal decreases over the period while they are contained in the field.

In the case where Break Fencing using temporary fencing is used to control the feeding of livestock, considerable labour is required in moving these fences, especially in some fodder crops like turnips, swedes or Brassica crops which may also require a path to be cut where the fence (typically electric) is to be erected.

Infinity Moving Fence is designed to move at a controlled rate over a field and to feed the livestock as they follow it in the direction of its motion. They eat the feed as it becomes available from under the fence. The fence moves slow enough or in small increments, so as to avoid livestock tramping on good feed and minimises pugging of the ground. The livestock leave excrement on the already eaten area of field.

The motion of the Infinty Fence can be controlled relating to animal condition and other farm management requirements.

Drinking troughs and other accessories like roof shelter, supplementary food feeders and milking machinery, can be incorporated with the structure of the Infinity Moving Fence

Infinity Fence is supplied in components and allows for many possible configurations including the formation of circular or rectangular standalone moving corrals, which completely contain the livestock and don't rely on any other fencing.