Measurement of food and drink consumption
The drinking and feeding behavior of the animals is registered with special drinking and feeding sensors with the appropiated mounting devices. Thes standard configuration is the dual sensor-system with one feeding and one drinking station.
The drinking stations consists of a glass vessel containing the liquid and a sensitive sensor for measuring the amount of liquid removed through the drinking nipple.
A feeding atation consists of a food dispenser fixed to an extremely accurate sensor. The dispenser can hold different standard food pellets. Access to the food is given via a round stainless steel wire basket. The animals can gnaff off pieces of food through the steel bars in the same way as they do with the ordinary food cribs.
An upper and a lower limit for liquid or food removal can be entered in the Setup menu; within these limits the amounts of liquid and food removed will be registered. Measured values that lile outside these limits, e.g. those caused by knocking the dispenser against the sensor or by the animal lifting the dispenser, will not be taken into account.