Primary enclosures.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 9

All primary enclosures for guinea pigs and hamsters shall conform to the following requirements: (a) (2) Primary enclosures shall be constructed and maintained so that the guinea pigs or hamsters contained therein have convenient access to clean food and water as required in this subpart. (3) Primary enclosures having a solid floor shall be provided with clean bedding material. (4) Primary enclosures equipped with mesh or wire floors shall be so constructed as to allow feces to pass through the spaces of the mesh or wire: (b) (2) (i) The interior height of any primary enclosure used to confine guinea pigs shall be at least 6 (ii) Each guinea pig housed in a primary enclosure shall be provided a minimum amount of floor space in accordance with the following table: (3) (i) The interior height of any primary enclosure used to confine hamsters shall be at least 5 (ii) A nursing female hamster, together with her litter, shall be housed in a primary enclosure which contains no other hamsters and which provides at least 121 square inches of floor space: (iii) The minimum amount of floor space per individual hamster and the maximum number of hamsters allowed in a single primary enclosure, except as provided for nursing females in paragraph (b)(3)(ii) of this section, shall be in accordance with the following table: (c) (ii) The interior height of any primary enclosure used to confine guinea pigs shall be at least 7 inches (17.78 cm). (iii) Each guinea pig shall be provided a minimum

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 9:§ 3.28