Sales performance appraisal for animal science

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[Music] so my family owns a pretty large farm we have 17 chicken houses eight pig houses and i show cattle so i've been raised around animals and agriculture all of my life i guess that's what got my interest in the animal science industry so i plan on using my education here to help further our farm i have a farm and before i actually introduced cattle to my farm i wanted to educate myself in terms of how to take care of the animals my family has a beef cattle farm and we raised beef cattle and i just wanted to extend my knowledge about the cattle and about the nutrition i've had a hobby farm where we raise horses and train horses and have cattle for the last about 30 years but as i retired this year i wanted something you know to expand on and actually become more profitable i enjoy the animal science program because we get to go on field trips we have like really real life visuals so we get to see everything in real life version and then we get on our field trips we get to go to different you know we've been to farms we've been to research facilities we've been to several different places and we've got to help out in different areas of the animal science field the field trip is very interesting in terms of getting a better hands-on experience on how to uh take care of the animals not only take care of the animals make sure you learn about the vaccination programs yeah i've been able to pick up a lot of things within the class that i've been able to take back and apply to the farm and how we actually operate and kind of streamline and make a lot of adjustments to make it more profitable healthier animals better environment number of changes i'm in this program and it's tuition free in the college and career promise program i would recommend this program to both high school students because of the free opportunity it is but also to a lot of people that are out there in the community that are just getting into farming like i am as retired and looking for something new to do or just that want to improve their knowledge of what they've been doing all their life hi everyone my name is james quick i am the lead agriculture science instructor here at surry community college and we are in our third year of our diploma and certificate approved applied animal science program so i want to begin with giving you a little bit of information about our courses we use a lot of animal models in our classrooms including peggy so i'm going to start with peggy the pig first she is often used for anatomy and also locating internal organs such as her large intestine okay we have just about everything that's included in a real pig in peggy so these models are very anatomically correct and the students can use them to become very familiar with the organs and their functions for every species of livestock animal that we review so that's it for peggy next we're going to move to her friend teresa so just like peggy teresa is very anatomically correct and we use this animal model to review the reproductive organs of our guilts or sows so as you can see in this model we have ovaries we even have a functional cervix here so again very anatomically correct and so the students are able to practice artificially inseminating which is a very common practice used in swine production and at the end we hope will result in a little piglet and we can call him wilbur for the day so this is coco our most popular animal model all the students love coco because they can get a little more interactive with her so same with our pig model she is very anatomically correct and we use this model again to review the reproductive organs and to simulate artificial insemination and so the students really like this part that you can actually palpate cocoa and you could feel the cervix oh wait before you feel the cervix oh there's poop okay which is very again anatomically correct so the students are able to palpate coco locate her cervix and then direct an insemination rod through her reproductive tract and simulate the act of artificial inseminating and then again our goal is to end up with an embryo this is a very beginning stage of an embryo so a lot smaller than wilbur over there but again same concept different species this is our hen model nugget they actually named her nugget and that's okay with me again we are using her to review her anatomy so that we are familiar when we're processing chickens but the main thing i want you to notice from this is this egg because the next equipment that i'm going to review may be the coolest yet okay so picking up from where we left off with nugget she should at the end of the day produce an egg so as a part of one of my courses i allow students to actually incubate eggs so we get donated eggs and we incubate them for a month and then the eggs hatch out in this hatcher down here and then the students are responsible for taking care of the chicks that hatch from those eggs and we keep them in this chorale here so you can imagine how interesting class is for those few weeks while we got little chicks sitting in class sometimes students take the chicks and put them on their shoulder while they're taking notes i don't mind it all makes it for you know a more enjoyable experience i hope you enjoyed this brief overview of the applied animal science program but before we go i want to give the rundown of a few of the classes that we have we actually offer animal science animal feeds and nutrition and intro to animal care in the fall semester in the spring semester we have all our production courses that's including swine poultry and beef including a health management class and all of our classes are transferable to north carolina a t through a two plus two program so if you come here complete your diploma you could actually transfer to north carolina a t and greensboro and finish out a bachelor's degree in three years which i think is a great opportunity and also not to mention there's no prerequisites for my class so you could join me in coco spring semester or fall semester we'll take you anytime and i promise i'll try to keep her on her best behavior so yes i hope to see you soon if you're interested which i know you are you can find all my information on surrey.edu or you can contact student services hope to see you soon [Music]