Veterinary Thermometer - Glass Type

patsy_mccabe

Veterinary Thermometer - Glass Type, where would I get one?
I have a digital one here but the battery always seems to be dead when I need it.

buffalobilly

vets

stretch film

Have a feeling there not allowed anymore . Own vet was grumbling about some restriction recently.

Never wrestle with pigs

While your asking, where do you get the proper drip/flutter valve I think it's called that the vets have. It has a rubber tube and better valve that's a hundred times better than the crap ones in the coop.

KatyMac

Pretty sure glass/mercury ones are not allowed any more as mercury is such a nasty thing. It was way too easy to break them and thus releasing the mercury to the world.

I remember playing with balls of it on the table at college when a thermometer got broken and the lecturer going ballistic at us! he said that once enough had built up in your system it would be lights out!

rjphouse

If u stick a 16g needle into the valve of the flutter valve it makes it an awful lot better & if it starts slowing again take out the needle flush it and stick it back in- a lot of the time the calcium leaves deposits in the valve that blocks it and makes them crap the big needle opens it again. Most vets will sell the tubes/valves they use. Some brands work better than others I prefer paragon.

greysides

I've a mercury thermometer as a back up and have used the electronic for years. As a person who started in Fahrenheit for this purpose getting used to Celsius only ones was a right PITA. Fahrenheit was simply a better unit for the job. It's hard to get a Fahrenheit one now. I get them from local pharmacies or vet supplies. Check the range is high enough for animal use, up to 107/108F or 42C. As you hold at the back of the thermometer and need to keep the end pressed into the side of the rectum you will need one that doesn't allow the bit you're holding by to snap off easily.

I prefer the red rubber flutter valves and not the transparent/white plastic ones. The one with the tooth for piercing the rubber bung is my current one. I preserve the tooth by piercing the bung with a needle first. The black rubber insert in the air breather is best just pulled out after the first use. It blocks too easily and it works fine without it.

_Brian

You'll get a glass thermometer from the vet for a few euro. I think it's coloured alcohol that's in them now.

That's all we use now, had a digital one but battery was always flat at the wrong time

patsy_mccabe

Thanks guys. The vets is 20 miles round trip. I was hoping I might get one somewhere else. I'll try a few local pharmacies first. Cheers.

bogman_bass

greysides wrote: »

I've a mercury thermometer as a back up and have used the electronic for years. As a person who started in Fahrenheit for this purpose getting used to Celsius only ones was a right PITA. Fahrenheit was simply a better unit for the job. It's hard to get a Fahrenheit one now. I get them from local pharmacies or vet supplies. Check the range is high enough for animal use, up to 107/108F or 42C. As you hold at the back of the thermometer and need to keep the end pressed into the side of the rectum you will need one that doesn't allow the bit you're holding by to snap off easily.

I prefer the red rubber flutter valves and not the transparent/white plastic ones. The one with the tooth for piercing the rubber bung is my current one. I preserve the tooth by piercing the bung with a needle first. The black rubber insert in the air breather is best just pulled out after the first use. It blocks too easily and it works fine without it.

The red rubber ones are ten times better than the other ones that are going round at the moment. I just take the rubber bung out of the bottle altogether and put on the (red Oldskool) flutter valve

greysides

I've seen rubber ones that suit the plastic bottles with the wider necks.