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Page 12 %u2013 National Poultry Newspaper, March 2025 www.poultrynews.com.auAUSSIE Pumps has been a proud supporter of the poultry sector since being formed 30 years ago. The engineering team has worked with the industry and has a vast amount of experience in producing machines designed for shed cleaning.Originally building big 125LPM 40 and 50 bar shed washdown units, Aussie learnt a lot from growers. Aussie Pumps chief engineer John Hales said, %u201cThose big machines were powered by Honda twin-cylinder electric-start petrol engines, often either truck or trailer mounted.%u201dAussie works with the sector and has sharpened up its research and development to help farmers cope with the possibilities of avian influenza contagions.Enter the heatwaveAussie Pumps Heatwave is a Honda petrolengine driven 4000psi steam cleaner.The machine, compact and portable, provides an infinite degree of cold up to steam capability.%u201cThat capability to go up to 130C means the ability to sanitise and clean at the same time,%u201d Mr Hales said. Two machines in oneThe machine is a very effective 4000psi coldwater pressure cleaner as well as a steam cleaner.The steam is generated by a 12V dieselfired burner that heats the high-pressure water as it goes through a heavy-duty Spiralast coil, which comes with a lifetime warranty.The machine comes in a stainless-steel frame with integrated handles and four flatfree tyres on steel wheels. The Aussie Heatwave is easy to move around the shed.%u201cThe Heatwave is not designed to do massive wash and flush activities,%u201d Mr Hales said. %u201cIt%u2019s the ability to both clean and sterilise at the same time is its major attribute.%u201dThe machine can be equipped with a 4000psi 30m hose-reel kit that enables the operator to move up to a range of 60m from the machine. It can also be supplied with a drain-cleaning kit that makes it easy for cleaning blocked drains.%u201cWhen cleaning drains you need to be operating with water at ambient temperature, not steam,%u201d Mr Hales said.Other options include turbo lances that fit the heavy-duty gun and even soap dispensing for detergent clean up where necessary.Aussie Pumps Heatwave, which can also operate with a flat-surface cleaner %u2013 though not when operating on steam, is an extremely handy tool for shed clean up.This is where the steam function can be a very effective method of shed sanitisation.Bigger machines that have significantly more pressure and flow, all the way to 5000psi and 20LPM are also readily available.They can be trailer mounted with their own water cart tanks up to 4000 litres.For further information, contact the Poultry Support Division headed by Niki Patel or visit aussiepumps.com.au Shed sterilisation and wash down made easy.Supagas can design and install LPG vessels to suit each individual farm.%u2022 Dedicated team to customise your gas supply needs.%u2022 Delivery capabilities range from6 tonne tankers to 64 tonne B-doubles. %u2022 Very competitive gas rates.cultural values.These impacts include the harm, killing and death of relatively large numbers of other animals that could otherwise be alleviated and avoided by killing relatively small numbers of invasive and overabundant native animals.Killing invasive animals typically aims to prevent, for example, any potential negative impacts on agriculture, native species, wilderness areas or human health.Directly and indirectly, killing invasive and species may be avoidable, but doing so will often yield unavoidable adverse consequences for both humans and animals. Though it may sometimes be possible to undertake invasive animal control in ostensibly nonlethal ways, such as trap-neuter-release or translocation, these practices are often ineffective and typically cause greater harm to animals than simply killing them. Attempted %u2018nonlethal%u2019 exclusion of invasive animals by creating landscapes of fear can create serious animal welfare issues, in addition to indirect killing.So, while restoring ecosystems through restoration of native carnivores and herbivores might %u2018naturally%u2019 eliminate invasive and overabundant animals, this does not evade animal killing given subsequent predation and competition %u2013 it merely outsources animal killing from humans to animals or other ecological processes (for example predation, starvation, disease). Sometimes it is simply impossible to remove all invading animals without killing at least some of them.Humans do not need to kill or exclude invasive or overabundant invasive animals like they need to eat or protect themselves (see reasons 1-3), but past experience indicates that allowing invasive and overabundant native animal populations to grow unchecked usually results in ecosystem degradation, including widespread harm and death to many other animals and to the agricultural products that humans rely on for food (reason 3).Next month, Part 4 will cover the next three reasons as to why humans kill animals and why we can%u2019t avoid it. Ben AllenUniversity of Southern QueenslandWhy humans kill animals - Part 3The author, Assoc Prof Benjamin Allen.Aussie heatwave cleans and sanitises* from P11