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Author: Brodie Roberts

Common Issues with Vaccinators and How to Fix Them

Introduction Reliable vaccination equipment is essential for effective disease prevention and control in livestock. Proper maintenance and troubleshooting ensure accurate dosing, animal safety, and equipment longevity. Over time, issues can arise that hinder performance, but many are simple to identify and resolve. This guide will help educate you on the simple, but sometimes frustrating, process of fixing vaccinators. Common Problems and Fixes 1. Clogging or Blockages 2. Air Leaks 3. Inconsistent Flow or Dosing Errors 4. Broken or Worn-Out Parts 5. Calibration Issues Preventive Maintenance Tips When to call Think Livestock https://www.thinklivestock.com/product-category/injection-and-drenching-equipment/spare-parts https://www.henkesasswolf.de/en/veterinary/spare-parts

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May 13, 2025

What Are the Benefits of Automated Water Dosing Systems?

What is a Water Dosing System? The term “Water Dosing System” covers several different types of equipment. Some of these ‘systems’ are quite manual and labour intensive (header tanks and trough dispensers, for example); while others are best described as automated.  Automated water dosing systems are designed to deliver precise amounts of medication, supplements, water sanitisers, or vaccines through the watering systems on farm. At their core, these systems are all about ensuring the correct proportion of any additive to the water volume. For some examples of the types of additives these systems are used for, check out this article. Main Benefits Additional Considerations While initial setup may require some investment, the long-term efficiencies and health benefits make automated dosing systems a worthwhile investment. ConclusionAutomated water dosing systems offer accurate, efficient, and reliable medication delivery, ultimately improving herd health and farm productivity. If livestock health management is a priority, automation

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May 12, 2025

How Do I Choose the Correct Needle Size for My Livestock?

Choosing the right needle size is essential for safe, effective, and humane vaccination or treatment procedures for livestock. Using needles of the wrong gauge or length can cause discomfort or damage to the animal, while also negatively impacting the performance of the vaccine or medication.

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May 12, 2025

Flow Sensors

How to choose the right one to suit your water dosing task and your Select doser type. There are a lot of farmers across Australia with a need to add something into the drinking water for their Livestock. Most of these applications have one thing in common: The need for dosing to be automatically adjusted in proportion to the water flow. When we first launched the Select Doser in Australia about 16 years ago, there were only a couple of options available for Water Flow measurement. We had sensors in our range to measure very small and very high flows, but very little to cover the middle of the range that people encounter on farm. This meant that our customers in the early years could use the Select Doser for precision applications (such as a Poultry Shed, or Weaners on a pig farm) or Farm-wide applications (such as Water treatment

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January 12, 2022

Summer Cooling for Australian Pig Farms (Part Two)

Part Two – Drip Cooling Cooling grower and finisher sheds is fairly easy to get your head around. You install some sprayers, hook them up to a control system (such as our COOLGRO), and move on with your life. This works great with larger pigs in naturally ventilated sheds. The same easy system can be used for dry sows in pen situations. The harder part of the equation is wherever young pigs are involved, especially in the farrowing house. Lactating sows like low temperatures (ideally between 12 and 22 degrees Celsius), but piglets like temperatures of 26 – 32 degrees Celsius. Managing these two requirements in a shared environment isn’t hard, but just requires a little forward planning.

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October 20, 2021

Summer Cooling for Australian Pig Farms (Part One)

Part One – Spray Cooling Australian summers aren’t what you would call ideal for pigs. Even with the massive variation across the 7.692 million square kilometres of our country, most places are too hot for comfort in the height of summer. Worse than that, the temperature severely inhibits pigs’ performance. The optimal temperature for Grower pigs (and larger classes such as Finishers, Sows and Boars) is between 16 and 26 degrees Celsius. Every degree above this upper number several impacts their appetite, FCR, growth rate and fertility. When was the last time you had a summer day below 26 degrees on your farm? This is nothing new to talk about. Farmers use all kinds of methods to cool their pigs throughout the hotter months, hoping to avoid the dreaded effects of the Aussie summer. I’m just writing about the one that Think Livestock can help you with.

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October 15, 2021

Drinking Water: An overlooked threat to farm biosecurity

Of the many steps Australian farmers take to improve the biosecurity of their farms, one significant threat is often not taken seriously enough. The provision of safe, clean drinking water is hugely important to the prosperity of any livestock farm. The costs, in terms of productivity losses and mortality, of not doing so can be astronomical.

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March 8, 2021

Special guest to attend Sheepvention in Hamilton

Andreas Dürler has worked with the German company Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH since 2018. He is responsible within Henke-Sass, Wolf for veterinary products including all sheep and ruminant products. Andreas holds a German degree as a business economist. He is also involved in the development process of several products for HSW including vaccination guns, drenching and pour-on guns. Andreas will be available at the Think Livestock stand for the entire period of the Sheepvention in Hamilton and will be happy to answer questions and to receive feedback on the performance of the products of Henke-Sass, Wolf.

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July 30, 2019