Drinking & Feeding & Body Weight

The drinking & feeding behavior and body weight of test animals are measured by high-precision weighing sensors attached on top of the cage lids.

The basic standard configuration is the dual-sensor home cage system with one drinking and one feeding station. For choice preference investigations, up to 9 sensor stations can be mounted on the home cage lid. With 5 sensors stations you can offer 3 basic diets, water and also monitor body weight.

• Sensors can be used in a flexible way as drinking, feeding or body weight stations, also in combination with home cage calorimetry
• Easy access to liquid and food for young, old or obese mice or rats, including programmable access control by time and/or amount
• Continuous long-term monitoring of body weight and of food or liquid consumption by amount and time
• Up to 9 sensors per cage, easy and flexible food or liquid choice experiments (depending on cage size and interior equipment)
• Automated paired / yoked feeding experiments
• All standard home cages are useable without any modification
• The FeedTime system provides an alternative for automated food deprivation and training for defined feeding rhythms by time-controlled food access in all standard home cages
• Specially designed containers for powdered or pasty food are available, enabling diets of variable texture