This course will include labs/hands-on experience; protocol completion and peer reviews; in-depth rodent strains and characteristics, breeding schemes, environmental enrichments and identification methods; humane care, handling, and management of primates, frogs, and fish used in research; routine techniques and practices for each species used in the labs.

This course will include labs/hands-on experience; protocol completion and peer reviews; in-depth rodent strains and characteristics, breeding schemes, environmental enrichments and identification methods; humane care, handling, and management of primates, frogs, and fish used in research; routine techniques and practices for each species used in the labs.

This lab is taken concurrently with the lecture course ANIMLSCI 455V Laboratory Animal Medicine & Management. The lab covers learning and demonstrating hands-on the common technical procedures used in rats, mice, rabbits and other lab animals and the daily husbandry and care of the lab animal colony, including husbandry, feeding and health assessments.

This course, and concurrent registration in the associated lab course, ANIMLSCI 455VL, provides basic instruction in laboratory animal anatomy and physiology, restraint and handling, nutrition and management ? with emphasis on the laboratory rat, mouse, hamster, rabbit and gerbil. Lectures include material on principles of disease, research use and therapeutic techniques and well as regulations applicable to research facility operation.

Managerial problems and practices associated with successful dairying in the Northeast and the U.S. Includes dairy cattle nutrition, selection, breeding, lactation, and waste management.

Managerial problems and practices associated with successful dairying in the Northeast and the U.S. Includes dairy cattle nutrition, selection, breeding, lactation, and waste management.

Horse breeding will provide understanding and hands-on opportunity in equine reproduction. Specifically, semen collection, evaluation and processing practice; discussion in mare breeding management and use of hormones; preparation of the mare for breeding; introduction to embryo transfer. Additionally, the mares in the breeding program at the Hadley Farm will be worked-on during laboratories and students will be able to participate in teasing and decision-making on breeding management and assisting in foaling. Client based cases may also be introduced during lab sessions.

This course is a study of both internal and external parasites found in veterinary medicine. Areas of concentration include life cycles, pathogenesis, treatment, control, and public health significance of these parasites. The laboratory portion includes both gross and microscopic evaluation, identification, and testing procedures.

This course is a study of both internal and external parasites found in veterinary medicine. Areas of concentration include life cycles, pathogenesis, treatment, control, and public health significance of these parasites. The laboratory portion includes both gross and microscopic evaluation, identification, and testing procedures.

This course explores comparative reproductive biology in wildlife and domesticated animals. Topics will include: conservation techniques to solve problems of environmental change and international development; human-wildlife conflict; reproductive cycles in wild animals; reproductive technologies; pharmacological and physical restraint; capture methods and transport. Management of wildlife in national parks, game reserves and zoos.