Cage Card Creation and Requirements

Cages must be properly identified with the Protocol and Segment, Smartkey and PI along with the barcoded cagecard number. Animals ordered through our Customer Service office with standard vendors or that comes in through our quarantine service will be assigned cagecards by DAR personnel. Cards for animals that are needed for increased number of cages due to breeding activity or separation to meet the needs of the research (or of the animals) may be ordered with the Vendor choice of EU: Weaning or EU: Separation. If weaning animals, the animals need to be deducted as usage from your protocol segment. Using EU: Weaning will allow this deduction to occur through our semi-weekly cagecard scanning process. Please note that the segment and the smartkey must align per your protocol segment approval if the smartkey represents sponsored funding. EU: Separation will allow you to separate animals already reported to your protocol segment without incurring further usage deduction.

Request for Weaning or Separation Labels: PDF Form
Request for Replacement Labels: PDF Form

• Prepared by: Lynne Morelock-Roy

Date: March 21, 2014