FEEDING, ACTION EVALUATION OF MATERIAL USING THE FEEDING AND FEEDING DEVICE USED THEREFOR

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a feeding method for more correctly evaluating an action of a material such as a medicinal agent, an action evaluating method of a material such as the medicinal agent using the feeding method, and a feeding device used for performing the feeding method, in a feeding method supplying a feed such as of pellets to an experimental animal. SOLUTION: When a mouse 6 dosed with a medicinal agent eats one piece of pellet feed 15, a right to eat one piece of the pellet feed 15 is imparted to a mouse 9 not dosed with the medicinal agent. In such a manner, a supplying amount of the pellet feed to the mouse 9 is controlled so us not to surpass the quantity of the pellet feed 15 to the mouse 6 dosed with the medicinal agent. Thus, the amount of the pellet feed ingested and a rhythm of feed ingestion can be controlled to nearly the same conditions between the medicinal agent-ingested mouse 6 and the medical agent non-ingested mouse 9.