Cal Poly’s Small Ruminant Operations Student Managers are working hard to ensure the safety of approximately 150 lambs born during lamb season, while also learning about holistic management and sustainable practices.
Tag: Animal Science
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Learn baah doing: a look at Cal Poly’s Goat Enterprise
Even though Cal Poly has sizable agriculture and animal science programs, seeing a group of goats walking around campus is still a surprise. These furry friends belong to the Goat Enterprise, a class where students get hands-on experience caring for and working with goats. Student Managers Matt Habib and Rachel Colby describe what the duties […]
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Cal Poly Equine Center urges visitors to avoid trespassing in livestock areasÂ
Multiple incidents of the Cal Poly and greater SLO communities trespassing onto the Equine Center’s private land have caused livestock experts to push for animal safety awareness on campus. Over the summer, a horse from the Equine Unit was badly injured by a fishing lure that was left behind by someone fishing in the reservoirs […]
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Cal Poly animal science class hosts horse therapy
Cal Poly students can go to the Health Center and receive counseling — but some are exploring a more unconventional outlet for therapy: horses. According to Sarah Stewart, an equine lecturer at Cal Poly, equine therapy is a treatment using a horse to help improve one’s mental, psychological or physical health. On Friday from 1-4 […]
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Watch: Students work with baby horses during foaling season
Foaling season at the Cal Poly Equine Center is officially underway. Students enrolled in the animal science foaling enterprise class get a unique opportunity to experience every step of the process. Mustang News reporter Madison Vernon shows us how students are involved in caring for these baby horses.
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Meet the students who care for Musty the Mustang, Cal Poly’s live mascot
On big game nights, an untamed stallion gallops across the football stadium as the crowd cheers him on. Affectionately known as Musty the Mustang, the 15 year-old horse has been reestablishing this game-time tradition for the past six years. Perhaps no one knows him better than the students who care for him in class. In […]
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Animal Science Department responds as protestors are present during WOW
The Animal Science Department used the recent Direct Action Everywhere protest against the Cal Poly Meat Processing Center as a teaching moment for incoming agriculture students.
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Baby cow man with a plan
Dairy science senior Will Greenwood is part of a group of seven students who take care of Cal Poly’s calves
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When pigs fly: Animal Science class uses Spanish pigs for Type 2 diabetes research
Cal Poly students are using Iberian pigs to find out causes of Type 2 diabetes.
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Animal science students providing free health services to homeless people’s pets
Doggy Days, created by animal science alumni, is a monthly event that offers free vet services.
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Two students take ‘bringing home the bacon’ to a whole new level
In exchange for reduced housing, Johnston and Quontamatteo wake up at 8 a.m. to care for pigs.