We normally use Bovine for DBA and Chicken for Bl6. But be carefull also with the injection place intradermally versus ip.

Thanks for your input Celso. I have used bovine for B10.RIII and I use 100ug id injection for induction and 50ug id for boost. Should the same be ok for DBA1? What protocol do you follow? 

You can take a look on this paper from E. Lubberts:

Arthritis Rheum. 2004 Feb;50(2):650-9.

Treatment with a neutralizing anti-murine interleukin-17 antibody after the onset of collagen-induced arthritis reduces joint inflammation, cartilage destruction, and bone erosion.

Lubberts E1, Koenders MI, Oppers-Walgreen B, van den Bersselaar L, Coenen-de Roo CJ, Joosten LA, van den Berg WB.

M&M

Bovine type II collagen (CII) was prepared as previously described (24) and diluted in 0.05M acetic acid to a concentration of 2 mg/ml. This was emulsified in equal volumes of Freund's complete adjuvant (CFA) (2 mg/ml Mycobacterium tuberculosis, strain H37Ra; Difco, Detroit, MI). DBA-1/Bom mice were immunized at the base of the tail with 100 μg of bovine CII. On day 21, mice received an intraperitoneal (IP) booster injection of 100 μg of CII dissolved in phosphate buffered saline (PBS), and the onset of arthritis usually occurred a few days after the booster injection.

Hello Samra,

You may find this protocol in the below link useful, because I used the same company's protocol for CIA induction in Wistar rats successfully... 

Although I also purchased the collagen from the same company as well, I believe that this may work irrespective of the source of collagen..

http://www.chondrex.com/protocol/Mouse_CIA.pdf