Genetics Calculator Chat Thread

[Dawnclucks22]

This skin infection
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Aww, poor doggie. I hope he/she gets better

 

[Tesumph]

This skin infection
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Hotspots suck.

 

[Rose Quartz]

I hope everyone is having a better day than me
Another bad thing happened. My brother didn't listen to me and doubled my dog's medication

noo... I once 10x'd my cat's pain meds.... he was ok. I misread .05ml as 5ml.

 

[Tesumph]

noo... I once 10x'd my cat's pain meds.... he was ok. I misread .05ml as 5ml.

Do you mean .5ml? Unless you 100x his dose

 

[Cyprus]

noo... I once 10x'd my cat's pain meds.... he was ok. I misread .05ml as 5ml.

Ugh don't get me started on cat medicine measurements.....
I am giving insulin twice a day this week to a cat and let me tell you that getting 1.5mL of insulin is not an easy task. And the needle is basically microscopic!

 

[Rose Quartz]

Do you mean .5ml? Unless you 100x his dose

oh... yeah, it was a relatively small dropper. it would have been .5 not 5ml.

 

[Rose Quartz]

Ugh don't get me started on cat medicine measurements.....
I am giving insulin twice a day this week to a cat and let me tell you that getting 1.5mL of insulin is not an easy task. And the needle is basically microscopic!

lol.

 

[Tesumph]

oh... yeah, it was a relatively small dropper. it would have been .5 not 5ml.

Haha I was concerned for a second. I hate finicky measurements. Toward the end of my ferrets life I had to give him lots of little doses of things. It’s one thing as a vet tech but forcing it down your pets throat every day kinda sucks.

 

[Rose Quartz]

I found something interesting, but not exactly calculator related... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0300962981925810
it seems that purines act differently in a chicken than humans. people with gout - uric acid build up in the joints - should avoid purines because it causes our bodies to create more uric acid. but in chickens adding purines: "caused a marked decrease in uric acid production"

I wish I was a chicken.

 

[Rose Quartz]

not sure which thread to put this in...

!!!!!

The white earlobe, is composed of purine compounds. so I searched if low uric acid levels in chickens affected the eggshell color.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7447842

a leghorn, which lays white eggs, when messed with chemically, causing an INCREASE in uric acid in the birds caused STAINING on the egg shells!!!!

high levels of purines in a chicken cause LOW uric acid, and white earlobes. which is why chickens with white earlobes are connected to white shelled eggs.

I read somewhere else about white layers slowly changing to brown tinted egg colors, and they did breeding research and breeding the chickens that have the tint caused it to get darker in the offspring,

I don't know how much research has been put into uric acid in chickens but it's a direction to look.