A BB-Shopping Customer Uses Her Cobra PMR725 Walkie Talkies As Monitors For Goat Kidding

We have a small herd of pedigree dairy goats and are about to kid 6 of them for the first time.  Although goats are generally pretty good at getting on with the job themselves, we would like to be around for the kiddings just in case anything should go wrong (and as first time 'parents' we are excited about it as well!).  As we can't be in the goat shed 24 hours a day, we wanted some kind of system whereby we could see or hear if something out of the ordinary was going on, especially during the night.  As we don't have telephone lines anywhere near the goat shed and the mobile telephone signal is appalling in the area (even though we are at the top of a hill), internet access (wireless or otherwise) for webcams was completely out of the question.  Other goatkeepers use normal baby monitors but for us this was not an option as we wanted to be able to keep an ear on the goat shed from various locations, one of which is over a mile from the farm.  So, when I hit upon the Cobra MT725 radios with baby monitor facility, it seemed like the ideal solution.