Basic Care

 

• Provision of laminated breeder cover cards
• Use of large breeder cage (for trios)
• Daily observation for and recording of births or deaths on the cover card
• Recording of wean dates of litters on cover card; and placement of notice of overcrowd (notification tag)
• Special husbandry as needed for litters such as special food; food on cage floor, etc.
• Added time for changing cages with litters present
• Special bar code stickers
• Altered cage changing schedule to accommodate need to change litters at special time

The following services are available on request for further management of breeding colonies.
These services will be charged based on technician time to perform:

• Setup of breeding animals to assure best production rates
• Sampling of tails for PCR testing
• Identification of pups
• Euthanasia of undesired offspring or breeders
• Separation of animals at weaning age into same sex groups with bar code stickers
• Direct report to investigator lab of colony status, (inventory, problems with breeders, etc.)

Please contact the Husbandry Supervisor Meribeth Broadway or Husbandry Manager Frank Speck directly with requests and specify which services you need. Note: Litters from breeding cages must be separated from home cage after pups reach 21 days of age. A notification tag will be placed on cages indicating the date by which the pups should be weaned and beyond which the cage will be considered overcrowded due to pups greater than 21 days of age. The investigative staff will have 48 hours from the date indicated to separate the weanlings from the home cage. After that time the separation will automatically be done by the husbandry staff and the appropriate charge based on technical time will be applied.

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