Recage study animals
After animals are assigned to groups they can be automatically recaged according to these groups, this can be either carried out immediately after randomization with only the animals assigned to groups during this randomization or at any time by selecting the animals from the table and use the bulk action to "Recage".
When using the bulk action to Recage you may decide to first apply a filter to show the correct animals for recaging, such as:
- Living status is equal to alive
- (For mixed sex studies) Sex is equal to Male/female
- On the Recaging Page, select if these cages should be named according to a cage number (Cage 1, Cage 2, Cage 3...) or group number (1A, 1B, 2A, 2B..)
- Confirm the number of animals to be housed in each new cage
- Click Generate
- After cages have been created you can generate these again if a different cage population or cage naming convention needs to be applied
- Click on the new cage name to rename manually
Rename animals
- During Recaging the Name of the animal can be updated if unique IDs are not used in this study
- Sequential IDs can be assigned to all animals in this recaging flow by defining a prefix (optional) and starting number
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- Repeating IDs can be assigned across cages by entering the IDs and separating these by using comma, tab or enter on your keyboard
- Click Bulk assign to apply. Once applied these can be changed but cannot be cleared
- When you are happy with the new cage and animal names, confirm if any cages that will be empty after after recaging should be automatically deleted.
- Click Submit
If you have selected cages to be deleted type DELETE to confirm this action. Note: All cage information and metadata will be lost and cannot be restored without contacting Benching Support.
An email will be sent when the recaging report has been generated, this will be found in the attachments section of the study.
This report contains, old ID, new ID, old cage and new cage to aid physically recaging in the vivarium.
Delete empty cages in bulk after recaging
After recaging animals into new cages you might want to delete the empty cages and we understand that no scientist has time to do this one cage at a time from the cages section of your study. To speed up this process follow the steps below:
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Go to colony
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Filter the cages by study and population is empty
- Select the cages in the table
- Use the bulk action to delete
- Click Confirm.