title: An automatic apparatus for feeding successive meals to rats during predetermined time intervals.
abstract: A method was developed to control the amount, composition and timing of four meals per day for laboratory rats. Food was weighed into cups and inserted under metal covers in cages. An apparatus was built and tested for retracting each cover and exposing the food at a predetermined time of day.
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D006799:Housing, Animal; D008722:Methods; D051381:Rats; D013997:Time Factors