Animal Feeding
Feed expires when still in the bag.
What is 9 months?
This is when you should house an incoming transfer.
What is immediately?
When to tag a cage of 2 adults and 1 litter.
Form & tag used to write up a mouse with fight wounds.
What is a sick form and pink tag?
The most common disinfectant used in DCM.
What is clidox or peroxigard?
This is written on every feed bag.
Name our approved vendors.
What is Charles River, Jackson Laboratory, Taconic and Envigo?
When to tag a cage of 2 lactating females and 2 litters.
What is the day the second litter is born OR the day the first litter turns 7 days old?
Red, itch skin that looks like a rash.
What is dermatitis?
Piece of equipment that sterilizes caging and supplies.
What is an autoclave?
You do this when special water bottles are found low or empty.
What is tell your supervisor?
Locations where each copy of the transform goes.
What is with the transfer, the supervisor and the driver?
An overcrowded cage means this.
What is the cage needs to be separated or weaned?
Malocclusions cause this.
What is starvation?
Mice that are housed on dirty bedding in static cages.
What are sentinels?
This is when water bottles expire for standard and enhanced rooms.
What is 7 days?
These 2 reasons could cause a delay with a transfer.
What is the mouse could get worse and die and the mouse could infect the new colony (biosecurity concern)?
When to tag a cage of 6 newly weaned mice.
What is immediately?
This is when you should write up a seizure.
What is after the third episode or a seizure that lasts longer than 30-45 seconds?
Device that protects technicians from contaminants and allergens when opening a rodent cage.
What is an ATS or BSC (hoods)?
Extra supplements we can provide to mice with protocol related illnesses or breeding pairs.
What is soaked feed, nutrical, diet gel, or nutritional enrichment (sunflower seeds)?
The number of autoclave bags needed when the transfer is walked through a public area.
What is one bag?
Grace period given to labs to fix the overcrowding issue.
What is 7 days?
These are considered emergencies.
What are moribund, difficulty breathing, dystocia, unexpected paralysis, seizure that doesn't resolve, and cannot eat/drink?
Biosecurity protects these 3 things.
What are people, animals and research?