Message Number: SG13354 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: ladydbfh@sbcglobal.net
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:08:01 +0100 (BST)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: melatonin
Message-ID: <29056009.1112815734426.JavaMail.nobody@vanadium.smartgroups.com>
I am going to start giving liquid melatonin to the adrenal kids in my shelter and I am
confused about the dosage. The bottle that I bought is by Natrol and it says that it
contains 1mg of melatonin per serving and the serving size is 4 dropperfuls. (which
is 4ml) Is that too much for the ferrets? I read on one of the websites that the ferrets
should have 1/2mg per pound of weight, so that would mean that most of the
ferrets would get 1mg. Could someone please point me in the right direction?
Lori
[Moderator's Note:
See
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/melatonin.htm
and the vet responses in
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org ]
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