Feedlot Research Group Construction of WTAMU's beef cattle research feedlot was completed in February, 1998. Located six miles east of the University at WTAMU's Nance Ranch, the feedlot is one of the premiere research and teaching facilities in the country. The feedlot has 30 identical feeding pens that are 90 feet in length and 20 feet in width, with an approximate capacity of 10 head in each pen. There are also four large and 16 small sorting pens. All pens and handling facilities were designed with "rounded" corners for ease in moving cattle from one location to another. Each feeding pen is equipped with its own water trough. The state-of-the-art processing facilities include a C&S hydraulic chute with rotating headgate, head sweep and a C&S tub and snake. The feedmill has five overhead storage bins, two commodity bays for roughage storage, fat and molasses tanks, a Roto-Mix mixer and Davis Precision Horizontal Batch Premixer. Future plans include the addition of a steam flaking unit. Feedlot Lab Housed within the Killgore Research Center on campus is an animal health laboratory, a nutrition laboratory and an environmental laboratory where faculty and students attend laboratory classes and work on their research projects. The health laboratory has equipment for conducting tissue cultures, virus isolation, lymphocyte isolation, identification, culture and assay, cytokine and immunoglobulin assays, in-vivo cell-mediated immunity assessment and in-vivo pulmonary function. The nutrition laboratory is equipped for sample preparation and routine feed analyses (dry matter, ash, nitrogen and fiber). Equipment includes a freeze dryer, UV-visible spectrophotometer and gas chromatograph. The environmental laboratory includes equipment for collecting water, soil, waste samples, water quality analyses (pH, electrical conductivity, chlorine and nitrate analyses), land surveying, remote sensing and datalogging equipment and a flexible wall permeameter for measuring water movement through soil. | 
