I want to tell you how this really got started.
My name's Brandon. I spent years with ranchers, hearing the same problem. Every time, I kept thinking — why isn't there something built specifically for this?
"You want to put a camera where??"
I had a company that installed security cameras. Over a decade ago a longtime customer came in and said, "Can you install cameras in my barn? It's a mile from the house."
I said, "You want to put a camera where??" He explained why. I asked if he had wire in the ground. "No — I want it wireless."
After weeks of trying things, I came up with a solution. And there it was: the first customer who didn't have to walk to the barn every two hours.
Travis called me one evening. It wasn't even 7 p.m. and it was already 20 below.
He went out to check cattle every two hours. Fifteen minutes to walk through them. Forty-five minutes to get back to sleep — only to get up an hour later. "I'm exhausted. And I can't hire anyone."
Cameras shipped in two days. He had them up the same afternoon.
I told him, "One more like that and the cameras pay for themselves." That's just one of the calls we get.
Not a security camera slapped on a barn wall. Something designed from the ground up for livestock.
Ranchers told me exactly what they needed. We didn't stop until we got it right.
Wired power, so it doesn't quit on you.
Plug it in, full power day and night. No dead batteries on the worst night of the year.
A control unit built right in.
No phone company in the middle. No monthly subscription. Once it's up, it's up.
360° camera — move and zoom from your phone.
From the house. From the road. Any hour, any night.
That's Cattle Cams. Built for your operation. Not adapted from someone else's.
Word spread. And the stories started rolling in.
Travis's neighbors wanted them. Each install, the product got better. Stories rolled in. Benefits I'd never even thought about.
A few that stuck with me
One guy pulled a sack off his purebred calf's head in time. Sold that calf later as a bull for ten times what the camera system cost.
A few years in, I asked Brent what he liked most. He said: "My daughter likes to sit with me in the evening and watch a movie. One night she asked if we could — and there was a heifer in the barn starting to calve. Because I could see the barn camera on my computer, I watched the whole movie with her and kept an eye on the heifer. She had the calf on her own. By the time the movie was over, I knew they were both fine."
We built kits customers could install themselves. Cattle Cams now run in more than half the U.S. states and across Canada.
We take pride in our customer service.
Over the years, we've hired good people with the same passion — Kit Builders and Tech Support Specialists who pick up the phone and actually know how to help.