APSC 1464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Immunology, Hunt Seat, Equitation
3 Mar 2017
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Smithfield equine center all horses donated or bred at vt. 25 quarter horses and several arabian geldings used for teaching and research: primarily nutrition and health foals are sold. 70 sow farrow to finish enterprise pork is sold to dining services and smithfield. Biosecurity is very important boars are kept at center for heat checking and sometiems breeding managed by kevin young and antoine ehouman, graduate students basic research on meat quality, nutritional immunology, obesity, reproducion, nutrition and management. 100 purebred (4 breeds, angus, hereford, charolais, simmental) and 200 commercial crossbred cows for research research: meat quality, pasture management, molecular mechanisms of growth and development. Campbell arena equitation classes, temporary stalls for a few horses. Equestrian team: hunter seat, western, dressage all of the horses raised at or donated to vt. Copenhaver sheep center research on growth and compositional differences and effect of obesity in fertility/health as well as management and meat quality studies.
