Facilities

Athens Campus

The animal and 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 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.


Tifton Campus

To facilitate resesarch activities in Tifton, the department has animal production units located at the Tifton campus, Alapaha Range Station, and Irwinville Bull Evaluation Center.

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Eatonton Beef Research Unit

The Eatonton Beef Research Unit consists of approximately 1,900 acres in Eatonton, Ga. The farm was transferred to Animal and Dairy Science management in 2012.

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Equine Unit

The Equine Unit, housed at the Livestock Instructional Arena, consists of a covered arena, outdoor arena, and indoor, climate controlled arena with seating for 395 people that is handicap accessible. The unit also includes a classroom with state of the art technology as well a drop down projector screen and audio/visual capabilities in the indoor arena. A kitchen, offices, and a conference room are also a part of the unit. Approximately 30 horses are managed on the farm, and are mainly used for teaching and undergraduate research purposes. Approximately four student workers are employed at the farm throughout the year.

Meat Science Technology Center

The Meat Science Technology Center is a fully functional meat animal processing facility that is federally (USDA) inspected. The main purpose of the MSTC is to facilitate teaching, outreach and research education in the areas of meat animal production, meat science and muscle biology.