Feed box for metabolism cage for mice and rats

• Main Authors: TAN ZHEN, SONG DANJUN, LI PENGXU, LIU AIMING, LUO MIN, CHU ZANBO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.01.2015
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRAPPING

The utility model discloses a feed box for a metabolism cage for mice and rats. The feed box comprises a feed hopper and a waste hopper; the waste hopper is located right below the feed hopper; the waste hopper is detachably connected onto the feed hopper; one side wall of the feed hopper is provided with a first grating plate; two clamping parts respectively matched with necks formed in the cage wall of the metabolism cage are respectively and symmetrically arranged at two sides of the first grating plate; a second grating plate is obliquely arranged in the feed hopper; gratings on the first grating plate and gratings on the second grating plate are respectively arranged at intervals at equal spacing; an included angle between the second grating plate and the first grating plate is 15-75 degrees; the upper part of the side wall, near the first grating plate, of the waste hopper is folded outwards into a waste guide plate, and therefore an extending waste diversion trench is formed in the waste hopper; an included angle between the waste guide plate and the vertical direction is 15-75 degrees; the upper part of the waste diversion trench is provided with a third grating plate. According to the feed box disclosed by the utility model, the accuracy of an experimental result can be improved, and the pollution of feed to excrement specimens and the pollution of excrements to the feed are avoided.