Animal Caging and Mice hosting fees
1. Animal care responsibilities of the LARC:
1.1 The staff of LARC conduct animal care for 7 days a week, all year round.
1.2 The LARC is responsible for providing experimental environments, feed and drinking water that meet national and international standards, and is not responsible for animal breeding, weaning, tail cutting, Sacrifice and Genotyping. If necessary, you can consider to pay for these services.
2. Animal Caging fees:
Mice: 4 yuan/cage/day (from March 1, 2018); Mice hosting to LARC: 5 yuan / cage / day (including animal breeding, weaning, Sacrifice and tail cutting).
Rat: 8 yuan / cage / day;
Rabbit: 5 yuan / only / day;
ABSL-2: mouse 10 yuan / cage / day, rat 16 yuan / cage / day.
Animal Caging fees change records:
March 1, 2017 - February 28, 2018 5 yuan / cage / day
January 1, 2014 - March 1, 2017 3 yuan / cage / day
3. Feeding standards for experimental animals quantity:
Animal feeding spaces should comply with international and national standards. Single cage feeding: In order to protect animal welfare, it is not recommended to raise animals in single cages. If you need to raise them in a single cage, you need to make necessary instructions in the approved Animal Protocol; the animal center will provide toys.
The mice were up to 3-5 per cage.
     <10g post-weaning cubs can raise 10 per cage;
    10-15g of small cubs can raise 7 cages per cage;
    Animals below 15-25g should not exceed 5 per cage;
    Animals above 25g should not exceed 3 per cage.
    Breeding cage mating ratio does not exceed 1:2. Breeding and mating ratios exceeding 1:2 must be separated after the birth of the big belly and before birth.
Rats were up to 2-3 per cage.
    No more than 3 per cage below 500g;
    500g or more and 800g or less, no more than 2 per cage;
    Only one can be kept per cage above 800g, and the animal center will provide toys.
4. Payment method:
The Animal Center issued a triple billing list and the “Tsinghua University Western District Internal Unit Transfer Voucher” to the West District Finance to handle the transfer and payment procedures. The first joint return to the Animal Center to establish the research team responsible account, the second joint research team retained, the third joint finance Retained.
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