Mary gets automated in the horse barn

Mary only cared about profit and how little help she could do it with. She had inherited the large horse stud farm from her parents after they were killed in an auto accident. Mary was in her mid 30s about 5’7″ with nice build on her. She had never dated much she spent most of her time with the horses on the ranch. She had never gotten along with the help on the ranch, thought they were over paid and under worked. There were 36 prize stud horses and ponies that they collected and sold the semen. Shorty after she took over the stud farm she started to look in ways to cut help. After looking at some ways she resided that one way could be automated the whole system, like some of the new stud farms. The old way was couple of hands would prep the breeding dummy with a sleeve to collect the seaman and raise or lower the dummy by hand as need best fit the height of each horse. A couple more would bring each stud to the room someone else would spray some mare essence on the dummy. The horse would mount the dummy unload his daily load then be taken back to his stall. The sleeve would be removed. All of the records were done by hand and mistakes could be very costly and this would be repeated 36 times every day. With two breeding rooms going all day and a staff of about a dozen. Labor costs were high to Mary.







So Mary hired James to design and set up the new system, that when done could run itself. first was to install new system of automated gates that would open and close letting each horse thought a number of set of new alleys and gates leading them to the breeding dummy room and back the their own stall. After a bit of time each horse learned the when the gate opened and they breed the dummy and food would be there back in there stall. Slowly the system was coming together for Mary each step she would let more staff go as the system was installed and the bugs worked out by James. During the process to automation lots of cameras were installed to track the horses from their stall and back and during the whole progress of the breeding in the breeding room. Next was to redesign the breeding room with automation James was able to go to one high tec room and dummy. Installing an automatic spray system for the mare essence that was tripped when a horse would entered the room a photo eye was easy. The dummy was installed in a hydraulic lift the would match the best breeding heights and maximal depth as each horse was let out of his stall. By the computer. One the hardest part was the sleeve installer and remover. but after lots of work James was able to design a robotic arm it would pick up new sleeve on a shaft on the end of the blow up in size to be sure sleeve was not twisted or anything then the arm would slide it in to the dummy and snap in to place the arm reduce in size and would slide out. after the horse was done a second arm would unsnap sleeve pull it out of the dummy, tag, seal and store the collected semen sleeve in to the coolers. For pick up later.







As more staff was let go James and Mary fought more and more over the care of the horses with so little contact with people. Also over the costs of the systems was higher than Mary wanted. At one some points they had almost stop talking Mary had started to holding pay back from James till the system was done and working fully. As the months when by the system got better and better. Finally after about a year it was done and working very well each morning one by one the horses would be let out do their job and return the their stall, with no staff need for the whole possess. Taking about 15 min per horse from the time they got let out there stall and back and ready for the next horse. James had also set up automated feed and water systems. James tried showing Mary how well the system worked how everything changed based on the size of each horse and was automate in the system. But Mary didn’t care she just wanted semen collect and sold for big money and spend time herself with the horses. The horses ranged in size from small ponies to Mary’s prize black Clydesdale Thunder and everywhere in between. With everything running smooth Mary decided it was time for James to go now too. After James found out Mary was letting him go and shorting him a big part of his pay he was furrois. But had thought she might pull something like this and had a plan how to deal with her that Saturday morning when all of the rest staff was off for the weekend. He slipped a knock out drug in her coffee followed by as shot to keep her out for the day.