SkyKelpie Aerial Stockmanship Course
A comprehensive training course covering drone technology, flying skills, and the stockmanship principles needed to work livestock calmly and effectively.
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Understanding Stockmanship
A practical introduction to stockmanship for drone mustering. Learn how animals think, respond to pressure, and move through their environment. We also cover low-stress handling, safety, and the importance of experience in effective livestock management.
Understanding the Technology
Understand the drone features that directly affect mustering performance. This includes flight time, transmission range, obstacle avoidance, and camera capability. You’ll also learn how durability, compliance, and user interface impact real-world operations.
Flying Skills
Develop the piloting skills required for effective drone mustering. Improve precision flying and spatial awareness in open paddock environments. Build the decision-making and adaptability needed when working live animals.
Basic Herding Animal Instincts
Explore predator–prey dynamics and how livestock respond to pressure. Learn about flight zones, mob psychology, and positioning. Understand how the timing and release of pressure influences movement.
First Contact - Starting the Animals
Learn how to approach livestock and initiate movement. Transition animals from a defensive to a receptive state. Set the right mindset for calm and cooperative behaviour.
Mobbing Up and Driving
Understanding and guiding animals as a cohesive mob, addressing challenges, applying pressure, creating good movement, and the philosophy of escorting rather than chasing animals toward their destination.
Yard Work
Understand how yard work influences behaviour back in the paddock. Allow animals to make their own decisions instead of forcing movement.
Taking Back and Settling in Paddock
Understanding the impact of leaving animals in a particular mindset, utilising drones for settlement, and recognising signs of settled behaviour (grazing in all directions).
Working Different Species and Different Terrain
Adapting stockmanship techniques for various animal species and terrains, focusing on the importance of adjusting approaches based on specific characteristics and environments.
Training the Animals
Engaging animals with the drone, teaching relaxed movement and confidence in directions, aiming to achieve straight movement away from pressure.
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