Animal Science Technology
Learn:
Hands-on training in animal husbandry and livestock enterprise management blends with a knowledge of food industry regulations and environmental issues to make you an integral part of maintaining health and safety for both livestock and humans. Common first year with livestock production program.Live The Learning:
Learn practical skills to manage feeding and health of livestock while maintaining proper and safe handling of beef and dairy cattle, swine and sheep. Artificially inseminate cattle and assist with calving and lambing. Additional theory teaches you to maintain business records of an agricultural operation. Assess key economic principles to market and develop business plans. Create an environmental farm plan for your family operation. Choose three production courses that will allow you to apply your skills.
The Lakeland Advantage:
100% of graduates can find employment in their field of study and approximately 25% of graduates will use their diploma to transfer to a university program.
Live Your Career As A
- assistant or manager in a feedlot, dairy or swine operation
- pharmaceutical representative for feed sales or livestock
- livestock support technician
- feed or health regulatory support technician
Continue Your Learning With:
Spend another year at Lakeland and earn another diploma. Or, use your diploma as a springboard to a degree at U
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Vermilion Campus
2 Years
A cow from the college herd that died on pasture has a new life as a skeletal structure in the small animal clinic lab. At the time of the bovine�s untimely demise, animal health technology students deboned the carcass and shipped it to the University of Alberta to be put into a bug box. Once inside, scavengers set to work removing all remaining flesh. Once this was done, the skeleton was cleaned, bleached and returned to Lakeland for assembly. Charged with the task was Ken Smith with the help of Neale King and Barry Gordey who built a metal frame for the structure. While the process to incorporate the specimen into the college�s teaching facilities was lengthy, it has resulted in a considerable savings to the college. The cost of a similar skeleton from a medical supply house is approximately $10,000. That's a lot of moo-la!