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Metrowest for precision feeding
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and optimal hygiene for your animals.
feeding for healthy and harmonious animals.
With over 25 years of technical expertise in industry-leading brands, we focus on helping you maximise the performance of our products within your system.
The Roxell Dos7 pro- vides precision feeding for optimal animal management, achieved through an automatic dispenser for sow and boar feeding.
Features of the Roxell Dox7 include flexible feeding times, simulta- neous and silent dis- tribution, automatic re- filling while being du- rable and easy to clean.
We’ll be there to help your business, during the installation and be- yond.
Our recently com- pleted boar house pro- ject for Sabor at Clare in South Australia per- fectly demonstrates this feeding system – every boar is fed simultane- ously.
Metrowest delivers in- dustry-leading turnkey systems, spare parts, service and support.
Feral pigs cause millions of dollars of damage to farms and destroy the fragile habitat that is home to dozens of threatened and endangered native animals.
Feral pigs being managed on Kangaroo Island
Roxell Dos7 plus feeding system plus Sabor project
We can assist you in installing and main- taining the Roxell Dos7 feeding system to achieve the same ben- efits Sabor boar house enjoys.
FERAL pigs are likely to be the third invasive pest species eradicated from Kangaroo Island.
With the distinctive thudding sounds of heli- copter rotors in the air, a group of detestable rogues
Working together with Roxell’s auto- matic feeding systems, we design solutions to achieve better growth, feeding conversions
No waiting to eat means animals are hap- pier and stress free.
– thinking that they’re camouflaged in the thick wilderness undergrowth – are in the sight of a highly- trained aerial marksman, equipped with military- grade thermal imaging technology.
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the plotline of an action movie is actually the latest method in the fight to eradicate the most de- structive feral animal spe- cies from one Australia’s largest islands.
Only 5 percent were able to be seen with the naked eye, which proves the ef- fectiveness of the tech- nology.
By utilising a Roxell Dos7 automatic dis- penser, Sabor now benefits from precise,
Contact us on 08 9416 0666 and talk to our team of specialists for a free consultation.
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With the capability of the technology now proven in finding the last remaining feral pigs in national parks and wilderness protection areas in western Kangaroo Island, a tender has been undertaken to engage a private operator to com- plete the cull of the re- maining few.
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Feral pigs cause mil- lions of dollars of damage to farms and destroy the fragile habitat that is home to dozens of threatened and endangered native animals.
This will also be com- plemented by the existing baiting and trapping pro- gram.
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The two-week trial used military-grade thermal imaging cameras and an aerial marksman, and it’s been a huge win in the battle against feral pigs.
Concentrated efforts over the past two decades have already seen feral goats and feral deer banished from Australia’s third- largest island, with feral pigs set to join that undis- tinguished list.
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While much of western Kangaroo Island was dev- astated by the bushfires, one of the silver linings was a significant reduction inthenumberofferalpigs on the island, down from an estimated 5000 before the fires to about 450. How are feral pigs on Kangaroo Island being managed?
The eradication of feral pigs from Kangaroo Island will significantly help the bush and threatened na- tive animals recover much faster from the 2019-20 summer bushfires.
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Why are feral pigs a problem?
On Kangaroo Island, the land is still recov- ering from the devastating 2019-20 summer bushfires.
In a recent Australian- first trial for feral animal management, more than 120 feral pigs have been culled on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island.
The program to eradicate feral pigs from Kangaroo Island is a three-year part- nership between Primary Industries and Regions South Australia, National Parks and Wildlife Ser- vice, the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board and the Australian Government. What other feral animals have been managed on Kangaroo Island?
Of the 126 pigs culled in the trial, 95 percent were detected using this new technology.
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