Merlin
Member Since 2014
I have three questions regarding vacation dose & schedule and need your advice/thoughts.
1) I will be gone for four days next week. My brother will be testing for AM & PM preshots but nothing in between. I use Prozinc and am using a sliding scale. I thought I would decrease the dose 0.20 units while I am gone. So for example, if Merlin gets a 265, I would normally give him 0.8 but with my new vacation dose scale, he would get 0.6. Does that sound reasonable or should I decrease 0.40 units instead?
2) I use a 11/13 schedule rather than a 12/12 schedule and this is because he goes lower in the evening and higher in the morning i.e. so, I catch him from going high in the am. My brother can only come over at 6am & 6pm. What probably will happen is that he may not have a shoot-able number in the evening but a higher number in the morning. Are there any concerns with that scenario for four days?
3) So, Merlin has been pretty stable for a while...until this last week. I was having a hard time getting him, gradually, to a 6am/6pm schedule. Last night he gave me the opportunity to just jump to the 6am/6pm schedule because he gave me an unshoot-able number i.e. so I started at 6am this morning. Plus he is also going much lower during the day/night with his "usual" sliding scale. So starting tonight, I have decided to test out and start the new vacation dose i.e. the decreased 0.20 unit. I only have three days to test this out so that is why I decided to go ahead and use the vacation dose and vacation schedule to see it it is going to work. Of course, he didn't have a shoot-able number tonight so I am skipping because that is what my brother would have had to do. Am I thinking this out right???
Thank you!
1) I will be gone for four days next week. My brother will be testing for AM & PM preshots but nothing in between. I use Prozinc and am using a sliding scale. I thought I would decrease the dose 0.20 units while I am gone. So for example, if Merlin gets a 265, I would normally give him 0.8 but with my new vacation dose scale, he would get 0.6. Does that sound reasonable or should I decrease 0.40 units instead?
2) I use a 11/13 schedule rather than a 12/12 schedule and this is because he goes lower in the evening and higher in the morning i.e. so, I catch him from going high in the am. My brother can only come over at 6am & 6pm. What probably will happen is that he may not have a shoot-able number in the evening but a higher number in the morning. Are there any concerns with that scenario for four days?
3) So, Merlin has been pretty stable for a while...until this last week. I was having a hard time getting him, gradually, to a 6am/6pm schedule. Last night he gave me the opportunity to just jump to the 6am/6pm schedule because he gave me an unshoot-able number i.e. so I started at 6am this morning. Plus he is also going much lower during the day/night with his "usual" sliding scale. So starting tonight, I have decided to test out and start the new vacation dose i.e. the decreased 0.20 unit. I only have three days to test this out so that is why I decided to go ahead and use the vacation dose and vacation schedule to see it it is going to work. Of course, he didn't have a shoot-able number tonight so I am skipping because that is what my brother would have had to do. Am I thinking this out right???
Thank you!
