Ok, I don't often complain but today after perusing my options for replacing my aging veterinary medicine supplies for my little flock of fluff balls out in the barnyard, I have come to the realization that the medicinal manufacturers and livestock supplies vendors have little comprehension as to how futile their idea of dosage labling is. You see most adult sheep are extremely healthy hardy critters...it's the little ones that usually end up needing meds most often...yet when you read the dosage lables they read something like this " 4.5ml per 100lb body weight", yeah sure one should be able to easily extrapolate weight adjustments but it is a pain in the posterior to do so when the patient to be treated weighs 3lbs. That puts the quantity of medicine somewhere below 1cc at which point it becomes debatable just how much is enough or too much. Sigh.
Kudos to Bovi Sera Antiserum for treatment of pneumonia and enterotoxemia, passive immune failure in newborns and shipping fever complex who is carried by Hoegger Supply Company, who is most appreciated for labling the dosage in their catalog of 10cc sub-Q injection for adults and 5cc sub-Q injection for newborns...bless them for being practical.
Cy
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