On packing with a dry feed the contents weight and also the recommended dosage is usually specified. But if there are no scales how to measure the necessary quantity of a forage that the pet did not overeat, but also did not remain hungry? There are several ways of measurement of dry products.
It is required to you
- - measured glass;
- - kitchen scales;
- - standard glass;
- - plastic bottle;
- - linen elastic band;
- - sheet of paper;
- - pencil.
Instruction
1. The pet-shop can offer you a special measured glass on which there are divisions corresponding to a certain weight of each type of a forage. However generally such glasses are intended for a dog and cat's forage. Owners of turtles, polecats and some bird species should leave their situations differently. Of course, such glass is anyway useful. Ask the seller it to weigh at first empty, and then fill the necessary quantity of a forage there and make the corresponding mark in a wall.
2. It is possible to use kitchen scales. Before giving a forage, do not forget to weigh capacity. For determination of quantity actually forages it is necessary to subtract capacity weight from the total weight.
3. In the absence of measured ware take a plastic bottle of suitable volume. Cut off at it a mouth. At the upper edge of the turned-out glass puncture or cut through an opening. Pass in it a linen elastic band and connect it by a ring. Fix a ring on any by the speaker from the vertical plane a subject. For example, on the door handle. On the door fix by an adhesive tape the sheet of white paper. You recognize that 1 ml of water weighs 1 g. Respectively, the standard thick glass tumbler holds 200 g of water. In shops, various drinks are on sale in plastic bottles of different volume, and it is almost always possible to pick up such which corresponds to a necessary dosage of a forage.
4. Pour in a big bottle from a glass or from a small bottle of the known volume in the necessary amount of water and make on a leaf to risk, noting the provision of a bottom. Without removing an elastic band, pour out water, wipe and dry your self-made steelyard. For fast drying it is possible to use the hair dryer.
5. Begin to fill a forage in a bottle. You monitor the provision of a bottom. When it falls to level risks, it will mean that in a bottle there is the necessary quantity of a forage.