Department of Animal Science

We offer a four-year Bachelor of Science (Animal Systems), a pre-veterinary program, and offer courses that form part of the Diploma in Agriculture program.

We teach animal behaviour and welfare, genetics, nutrition, biochemistry, and physiology relating to the major domestic species, that is, beef and dairy cattle, swine, sheep and poultry. A variety of non-traditional species of livestock are covered too.

Our programs:

• BSc Agriculture (Animal Systems)
• Pre-veterinary Program

Our courses are part of the School of Agriculture’s two-year diploma program where you can choose to focus on livestock management or general agriculture.

• Diploma Program

Courses of study and research may be undertaken in several disciplines related to animal science. These include nutrition, physiology, meat science, food safety and basic sciences, that is, immunology, microbiology, and molecular biology.

Our graduate students work alongside internationally recognized researchers at a robust number of state of the art facilities.

• Animal Science graduate programs

The long-term vision for our research is focused on five main areas: nutrition and nutritional biochemistry; monogastric production systems; ruminant production systems; environmental impacts of livestock and modelling systems; and molecular biology and immunology of livestock and poultry.

Our network of facilities can be found both on campus and at various locations within the province of Manitoba. These resources support the departmental goal of building research capacity in existing and emerging areas of provincial, national and international importance to the animal industry.

• Animal Science research and facilities

The Manitoba Agriculture and Food Knowledge Exchange (MAKE) is where we share Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences research that is shaping agriculture and food production in Manitoba and around the world.

• Visit MAKE