Housing III. Exotics Housing Flashcards
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Environmental considerations
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💡 Other Animals 💡 Accommodation 💡 Lighting 💡 Temperature 💡 Humidity 💡 Water quality 💡 Substrate 💡 Enrichment
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Things to consider when housing animals together
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🐱Social requirements 🐱Breeding 🐱Infectious diseases 🐱Management requirements 🐱Competition for resources 🐱Aggression 🐱Predator/Prey response
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Social Requirements
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🐣Solitary species 🐣Social Species 🐣Breeding requirements 🐣Territorial Species 🐣Mixing species
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Accommodation Design
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🧺Material 🧺Ventilation 🧺Space 🧺Furniture 🧺Security 🧺Dangers 🧺External factors 🧺Hygiene
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Ventilation
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💨Ventilation essential 💨Reduce odours/gas build up 💨Provide clean air 💨Respiratory health 💨Reduce concentration of airborne pathogens 💨Passive vs active ventilation 💨Air changes per hour 💨Varies between species 💨Balance again temperature/security
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Space
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📏Space requirements 📏Vertical 📏Horizontal 📏Below ground 📏Air 📏Indoor vs Outdoor 📏Consider natural environment
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Furniture
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📭Refugia 📭Climbing structure 📭Perches/Basking spots 📭Exercise wheels 📭Toys 📭Mirrors 📭Safety paramount
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Exercise Wheels
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🧿Consider Size
🧿Material
🧿Design
🧿Noise (!)
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Security
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🦊Predators 🦊Escape proof 🦊Chew proof 🦊Electrical cables 🦊Risk of entrapment 🦊Theft
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External factors
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☔️Seasonal adaptations necessary ☔️Noise ☔️Plants if outside ☔️External temperatures ☔️Weather proof ☔️Damp ☔️Drafts ☔️Overheating ☔️Plenty of bedding
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Dangers
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🌳Plants 🌳Toxins 🌳Aerosols 🌳PTFE 🌳Heavy Metals 🌳Pesticides 🌳Cleaning products 🌳Predator stress 🌳Humans 🌳Pets
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Hygiene
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🧼Cleaning regimes 🧼Disinfectants 🧼Safe 🧼Contact time 🧼Concentrations 🧼Permeability of materials 🧼Awkward furniture 🧼Spot clean vs deep clean 🧼Personal hygiene 🧼Food/water contamination
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Environmental considerations
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💡 Other Animals 💡 Accommodation 💡 Lighting 💡 Temperature 💡 Humidity 💡 Water quality 💡 Substrate 💡 Enrichment
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Light Spectrum
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🌈Huge species variation 🌈Aim to mimic natural sunlight exposure 🌈Visible light 🌈Ultraviolet light 🌈Flicker Frequency 🌈Intensity 🌈Spectrometer 🌈Filtration of sunlight
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Photoperiod
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🌔Night:Day cycles 🌔Circadian & Circannual rhythms 🌔Routine important 🌔Seasonal variation 🌔Seasonal breeders 🌔Impact on disease processes 🌔UVA light spectrum→behavioural responses to light 24
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Ultraviolet light
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💜UV-A, UV-B, UV-C 💜UV-A visible to birds and reptiles 💜UV-B required for Vitamin D3 activation 💜 7-dehydrocholesterol → Cholecalciferol (Vit D3) 💜 Calcium metabolism 💜Requirements often not well defined 💜UV Index 💜Solarmeters
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Temperature
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🌡 Poikilothermic/Homeothermic/Heterothermic metabolism 🌡 Consider natural environment/range 🌡 Thermal gradients 🌡 Preferred Optimal Temperature Zone (POTZ) 🌡 Night time temperatures 🌡 Control & monitoring essential 🌡 Thermometer 🌡 Max/minmeasurement 🌡 Thermostaticcontrol
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Heat Sources
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🔥Lamps 🔥Mercury vapour 🔥Ceramic 🔥Hot rocks 🔥Heat mats 🔥Incubators 🔥Water heaters 🔥Background temperatures
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Humidity
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💧 Consider natural humidity ranges 💧 Water provision 💧 Skin & respiratory health 💧 Drinking 💧 Gradient 💧 Humidity hides 💧 Hygrometry
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Humidity provision
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💧 UK Humidity range 💧 Spraying 💧 Misters 💧 Water Features 💧 Strategic water placement 💧 Substrates 💧 NB Ventilation 💧 Microhabitats
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Water quality
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💦 Aquatic, Semi-Aquatic and Terrestrial species 💦 Filtration 💦 Water samples 💦 Temperature 💦 Quality 💦 Parasites 💦 Drainage 💦 Substrate 💦 Disposal of waste water
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Substrate
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🍂Different substrates in environment 🍂Consider source 🍂Burrowing/Digging 🍂Cleaning 🍂Potential for ingestion/impaction 🍂Foreign body 🍂Bio-active 🍂Infection control 🍂Spores, parasites 🍂Toxins
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Environmental Enrichment
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🐚 Should have variety 🐚 Dietary 🐚 Sensory 🐚 Olfactory 🐚 Visual 🐚 Touch 🐚 Cognitive 🐚 Structural 🐚 Social 🐚 Human-Interaction
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Husbandry records
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📝Recording essential for exotic pets 📝Weight 📝Environmental parameters may fluctuate 📝Events 📝Feeding 📝Cleaning 📝Defaecation/Urination 📝Shedding/Moulting 📝Egg laying 📝Behaviour changes 📝Change in group structure
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Hospitalisation accommodation
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🐰Consider Diet 🐰Space limited 🐰Company 🐰Observation 🐰Visibility 🐰Access eg for medication/fluids 🐰Noises/smells in vicinity 🐰Security 🐰Escape 🐰Predation
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Rabbits
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🐰Predator free environment 🐰Crepuscular species 🐰Avoid bright lighting in the day 🐰Litter Trays 🐰3m x 2m x 1m 🐰Need height to stand on hindlegs 🐰Hutch alone not acceptable 🐰Hutch + Exercise area/enclosure 🐰Regularly move the run 🐰Care re burrowing
🐰Interaction at ground level 🐰Strong wire that can’t chew through 🐰Bolt locks 🐰Absorbent bedding 🐰Nesting material 🐰Slip proof under foot 🐰Spot Cleaned daily 🐰Full clean weekly Water provision 🐰Bottle and/or bowl 🐰Enrichment
