This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <han...@ai.sri.com> > spiek...@isu.edu wrote: > > Use a bathroom scale if you don't have anything else.� get on the scale, > weight yourself.� get off and pick up your� hay ration and get back on.� The > weight of the hay, within about a half pound, is the difference between the > two.
Before anyone relies on that method, I would strongly recommend that they first check how accurate their bathroom scales are in that mode! We got an Aussie puppy this year, so I was weighing her regularly. At first, I just put her onto our bathroom scale, and that was fine. One day, she was being wiggly, so I picked her up, weighed us, then weighed me. The difference was 15 lb, which was significantly less than she had weighed the previous week, so I managed to get her on the scale alone---21 lb! Being of a scientific bent, I got an unopened 15-lb bag of puppy kibble, weighed it on a good kitchen scale (15.5 lb), weighed it alone on the bathroom scale (16 lb), and by the delta method (12 lb). Obviously, my scale is not "linear" in its response to weight. Your mileage may vary.... Marsha Jo Hannah Murphy must have been a horseman-- han...@ai.sri.com anything that can go wrong, will! 15 mi SW of Roseburg, Oregon Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
