Record-keeping for a colony of 15,000 mice without use of a computer.
An economical and easy to learn method of record-keeping was developed which utilizes standard office supply 3 5 cards for cage cards and central office records. The method developed has been used to maintain all records of a mouse colony of 18 inbred strains and substrains for 9 yr. With this system, detailed pedigrees, postmortem data, tumor incidence, and average age are available in minutes.
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005371:Filing; D006799:Housing, Animal; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D011247:Pregnancy; D011996:Records; D014730:Veterinary Medicine