Nutrition, Feeding and Animal Welfare

The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals: Eighth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 183-193

  Savenije, Bart ^a   Strubbe, Jan ^b   Ritskes Hoitinga, Merel ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

British association of research quality assurance (BARQA) on contaminants and trace elements; Concepts in nutrition preventing nutrition based pathological and behavioural disorders in animals; Diet and environmental enrichment strategies; Diet manufacture chow versus purified diets, pellet hardness; Energy cost placed on gaining access to food rats changing strategy in minimising total daily work; Feeding rhythms in nature versus laboratory situation; Isocaloric exchange MJ metabolisable energy per metabolic weight (kg 0.75); Nutrition, feeding and animal welfare; Short term food deprivation overnight fasting or food deprivation schedules in research; Toxic nutrient levels quality assurance, diet and experimental outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887322608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318777.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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