Animal Facilities & Animal Husbandry

Facilities Overview
Renovation and
  Construction
Animal Husbandry Overview
Animal Care Staff
Important Animal Care
  Subjects
Animal Care Policies and
  Procedures
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  Husbandry Forms

The Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine supplies daily care to approximately 65,000 animals (98% of which are rodents) in animal facilities totaling 85,000 square feet of space and over 200 animal rooms. Over sixty laboratory animal technicians furnish a humane, healthy and comfortable environment for the animals under their charge, free from any variables that could compromise your research project, exceeding all prevailing national standards for care. Animal husbandry services include:
  1. Housing and husbandry services employing standardized food, bedding, caging, and cage changing intervals, with daily inspections of all cages.

  2. Sanitation of cages, equipment and animal rooms.

  3. Provision of protective clothing.

  4. Microbiological and serological monitoring of animals and rooms for pathogenic and selected opportunistic infectious agents.

  5. Quarantine and conditioning of newly received rodents included testing for pathogenic and selected opportunistic infectious agents.

  6. Record-keeping and monitoring associated with federal regulatory requirements for animal care and use.

  7. Environmental enrichment.

  8. Decontamination and disposal of biohazardous animal waste.

  9. Training in animal care and use.

  10. Consultation on animal care and use, breeding, species selection, species specific biology and health care.

  11. Euthanasia

  12. Provision of special food, bedding or equipment.

  13. Correction of overcrowded cages or pens.

  14. Preparation of animals for shipping.

  15. Investigator-initiated internal animal transport between campus facilities