The cameras are allowing anxious breeders to observe mares during crucial days of foaling and have been installed for several leading breeders by local integrator Barney Miller’s.
A prominent breeder in Lexington is using the cameras in nine stalls and reviewing images at night from home on a hard-wired system with a nine-channel colour duplex multiplexer.
Doug Hocker of Barney Miller’s believes that the price of a Rainbow unit is competitive enough for them to recommend multiple-camera solutions to clients.
“The Rainbow Bullet unit we’re using has a 70 degrees field of view which has proved suitable for this unusual environment, capturing everything that happens in the stalls. The camera can operate at F2.0 so varied lighting conditions don’t pose a problem.”
While some breeders choose simply to monitor the images, others are recording the footage to keep a 24-hour eye on their valuable steeds. The Vinery, a major stable in Fayette County, has connected the cameras to a Panasonic time & date generator and DVR. A two-year-old colt bred at the stable recently sold for over half a million dollars.
The standard Bullet cameras are available as colour or black and white models, and as 33 degrees or 70 degrees field of view units. The black and white models employed for horse-watching have a horizontal resolution of 420 TV lines and electronic iris of 1/60~1/100,000 sec.
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