LOL!!,....I know exactly what you mean Joe. I originally had to jerk around and crush the entire 250 mg. pill in a pill crusher (from any drug or Dept.store), cut the entire thing into equal "cocaine lines" to make 16 "lines" after knowing the dose was 1/16th of a 250 mg. pill (15.625 mg's) to have any real idea what a 1/16th portion of a stupid pill really was..LOL!. Guessing by breaking off random unequal chunks and "guess-timating" you could be off by a freakin MILE!..LMAO!!

Now since those columns were listed doses for liquid Panacur, and not Flagyl, I would still have to do a bit of estimating with the 250 mg, pill, but after knowing what a 1/16th line of it looked like from doing it before for a 300 gram snake, you can easily apply the differences to just about any weight snake. The heavier of course, the easier it is to apply it to the big pill too. Like a 500 gram snake would be only 1/5th of the pill and so on.

The paste type Panacur (Fenbendazole) is easy enough because it is made at a strength of 1 gram = 100 mg. of medication. So I just squeeze out a line of it from the tube on a triple-beam scale and estimate it as close as possible. Seems that no matter what there is always some guessing and estimating involved with what I have here. But I make sure I am as close as possible anyway and it has always worked pretty well.

I can just see you sitting at your kitchen table with an abacus and your gun loading scale scratching your head and cursing..LMAO!!..


~Doug

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