Thermal Imaging in Livestock

[Sazza_16]

I am looking to get a Thermal Imagine Camera to detect pneumonia in young calves. I’m hoping it helps with early detection of pneumonia. Has anyone ever bought one and tried this?

Thanks in advance

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I am looking to get a Thermal Imagine Camera to detect pneumonia in young calves. I’m hoping it helps with early detection of pneumonia. Has anyone ever bought one and tried this?

Thanks in advance

I've considered using one for lameness diagnosis in the field....

God luck finding one that meets the DEFRA grant spec for the money they say though....

 

[Sazza_16]

I've considered using one for lameness diagnosis in the field....

God luck finding one that meets the DEFRA grant spec for the money they say though....

Yeah the thermal imaging has multiple uses like lameness and others like early detention in mastitis, scour in calves etc.
Yes they are rather expensive

 

[unlacedgecko]

I am looking to get a Thermal Imagine Camera to detect pneumonia in young calves. I’m hoping it helps with early detection of pneumonia. Has anyone ever bought one and tried this?

Thanks in advance

Be cheaper with fever tags wouldn't it?

 

[Kidds]

I bought some thermal goggles instead recently, didn't even know you could get them.
Cost a lot of money but just come into some money and been fancying ordinary NV goggles for ages so treated myself.
Marvelous things! Amazed just how much you can see. I just get carried away and search out darker and darker places to test them out. Just recently I went miles into these remote woods just to test them even more. Ended up wandering miles and would you believe it found nearly a grands worth of metal detector just lying in the woods. No idea whose it could be as I was a very long way off the beaten track so took them home with me.
Good job I am honest, could easily have nicked about 40 wildlife cams so far but just leave them. They bothered me at first but now I just do a "suspicious" walk past them to wind the buggers up.

 

[cyffylog]

Hi Kidds

What make/model of Thermal Goggles did you buy and rough price please. There are so many on the market it would be helpful to hear from someone with first hand knowledge.

Cyffylog.

 

[Valtra Man]

Hi Kidds

What make/model of Thermal Goggles did you buy and rough price please. There are so many on the market it would be helpful to hear from someone with first hand knowledge.

Cyffylog.

Personally I wouldn’t buy thermal goggles for walking around. NV gives a much better depth perception but even that’s not as good as it sounds for walking around. The ideal is fusion technology which is NV with thermal overlay but it’s expensive.
If you want thermal for spotting foxes and the like then a binocular type spotter is more comfortable on on the eye to view through for hours on end but you’ll loose both your night eyes whereas if you use a monocular only your one eye goes dark from viewing through the thermal..same as most things you get what you pay for BUT if it’s a rifle scope not always the dearest is best as sometimes the dearer scopes have less magnification so by the time you digitally amplify it you’re no better off than cheaper scope at base mag. All depends what you want to do with it…

 

[Kidds]

Hi Kidds

What make/model of Thermal Goggles did you buy and rough price please. There are so many on the market it would be helpful to hear from someone with first hand knowledge.

Cyffylog.

I didn't.
This thread was started just after this one https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/real-odd-one.358211/ and I couldn't help myself.