Some experimental problems or special animal husbandry conditions can require a transitionally nutrition of lab animals with liquid feeds. Very often, meals of cereal-based standard diets are used by adding some water to achieve a pasty texture. This option should make it easier for the animals to assimilate the feed.
Vastly better alternatives of nutrition solutions are water-soluable liquid diets from Altromin. These diets are delivered as powder and can dissolved into water directly from the customer.
The presentation is simply done by giving it into drinking throughs inside the cages. The liquid diets contain all physiologically necessary vitamins, trace elements and minerals and contain protein sources of a high biological value.
Pre- and post-operative liquid diets
An adequate nutrition of test animals, especially before and after an surgical operation, play a major role to achieve a fast regeneration of the animals and abbreviates the period of recovery. It is advisable to use a diet with a reduced content of crude fat and crude fibre to relax the metabolism of the animals, considerably. Application should be performed one week before and up to 10 days after the surgical operative.
Specifications:
C0200 Pre- and post-operative diet
More liquid diets:
C0179 Highly-digestible diet (without fat)
C0199 Highly-digestibel diet (including fat)
For more information or questions, please do not hesitate to contact our scientific staff.
