Animal & Dairy Science: About Us
Facilities
Athens Campus
The Animal & Dairy Science Department has modern facilities for housing swine, sheep, beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, and laboratory animals. The swine center at Athens consists of a 100 sow farrow-to-finish confinement unit and a 45 sow teaching herd. In addition, there are outside facilities that accommodate 100 to 150 animals, a surgery lab for experimental surgery and a surgery recovery room. The beef cattle center at Athens includes a physiology barn, beef barn, metabolism facility, and feedlots that accommodate 200 brood cows and 200 to 300 steers. The horse facilities include barns and 200 acres that accommodate 75 horses.
The new Edgar L. Rhodes Center for Animal and Dairy Science contains excellent, well equipped laboratory facilities as well as instruction and research facilities that will allow sophisticated animal studies including intensive feeding trials, metabolism studies, as well as physiology and transgenic research. In addition, the complex contains a meat science technology center to support meat science teaching and research. Cooperative research is conducted at the Richard B. Russell Agricultural Research Center, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Foods and Nutrition, and Department of Food Science.
New, state-of-the-art farm facilities are currently being planned to support future instruction, research, and extension needs.
Tifton Campus
The beef cattle center at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station (CPES) consists of a 250 cow operation with feedlot and metabolism facilities. The dairy cattle center at CPES includes flush-clean main barns accommodating 200 cows.