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Exercise Number Two
What the above picture says is that the dose should be 20 mg of amprolium per 1kg (kilogram) of bird weight.
Calculate doses for the following:
- 2 ounce chick
- 7 ounce chick
- 1 pound bird
- 10 pound bird
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-Kathy
More conversions needed to get from ounces and pounds to mg/g/kg:
1 kilogram (kg) = 1000 grams (g) = 1000000 milligrams (mg) ( multiply kilograms by 1,000 to get grams or multiply 1,000,000 to get milligrams)
1 ounce (oz) = 28349.52 mg or 28.34952 g or 0.02835 kg (divide 28349.52 milligrams by 1,000 to get grams or divide by 1,000,000 to get kilograms)
1 pound (lb) = 16 oz
Lets first calculate bird weight in kilograms using the formulas above:
2 ounce chick = 0.02835 kg x 2 oz = 0.056 kg
7 ounce chick = 0.02835 kg x 200 oz = 0.19845 kg
1 pound bird (1 lb is 16 oz) = 0.02835 kg x 16 oz = 0.4536 kg
10 pound bird (10 lb x 16 oz = 160 oz) = 0.02835 kg x 160 oz = 4.536 kg
Now for the amprolium at 20 mg per kilogram of bird. Easy... now you just multiply 20 times the bird weight in kilograms:
2 ounce chick = 20mg x 0.056 kg = 1.12 mg of amprolium
7 ounce chick = 20mg x 0.19845 kg = 3.969 mg of amprolium
1 pound bird = 20mg x .4536 kg = 9.072 mg of amprolium
10 pound bird = 20mg x 4.536 kg = 90.72 mg of amprolium
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