All Animal Care, Health and Management Articles

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Laboratory animals are housed in standardised caging with standardised types of bedding and fed a standard, well-characterised diet.

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Although environmental conditions in all facilities will meet national standards, they may nevertheless vary from each other.

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Almost all laboratory animals can be restrained safely and humanely provided they are handled correctly.

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Diets fed to laboratory animals have become standardised, so that that they meet the nutritional needs of the animal, and are also produced to a fixed “recipe” so that variation is minimised.

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Reliable methods of identifying individual animals is often an essential part of study design, and can also be important in maintaining breeding colonies of animals.

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The health status of the animal is important since outbreaks of disease can have devastating effects both on programs of research, breeding programs, and on animal welfare.

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Methods of housing and care of laboratory animals, and the careful control of sources of supply of animals, diet, bedding and other items used in an animal facility have greatly reduced the risk of exposure of staff to zoonotic diseases.

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Rats are usually housed in either open-topped or individually ventilated (IVC) “shoebox” cages.

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