Sam Duck, a livestock caretaker in the College of Agricultural Sciences for the past 25 years, feeds some of the University's bulls at the John O. Almquist Research Center, above. Most of the animals he cares for weigh between 2,000 and 2,700 pounds. One of those animals, Hurley-Red, a Holstein bull, waits for Duck to get to his end of the barn.
The center includes offices and laboratories for biochemistry, molecular biology, cell physiology, histology, cell culture and cryobiology. Integral housing and feed storage facilities are available for 24 mature bulls, 28 calves, 40 cows and laboratory animals used in the research program in reproductive physiology.
The Almquist Research Center
is a unique facility for research on reproduction in farm animals and
is one of only three known in the world that provides substantial housing
for mature bulls.
Photos: Greg
Grieco