2023 - 2024 Catalog

Quarters Offered: Fall

Teaches the basic fundamentals and procedure for shoeing a horse, including tools and safety issues.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Examines principles and techniques for properly trimming and shoeing the horse with conformation and/or disease problems.Prerequisites: ANS 107.

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring

Introduces animal science, offering a foundation in breeds, genetics, nutrition, marketing, management, ration formulation and facilities planning.

Quarters Offered: Fall

In this course students will learn the skills needed to do day work on ranches and feedlots where horsemanship, stockmanship and roping skills are required including: cattle sorting, gate work, and roping.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Gain knowledge in preparing a horse to pack and properly train a horse to pull a wagon under harness.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Provides the skills needed to train a young horse to lead, stand square, pick up feet, turn on forehand and haunches. Includes grooming and fitting. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.

Quarters Offered: Winter

In this course students will learn the process of taking a horse from a snaffle bit to a finished bridle horse, how to use ranch work to instill a strong foundation on an all-around performance horse and how to market and show a horse in a performance horse sale.Prerequisites: ANS 252.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

This course will cover the skills and knowledge needed to be safe, efficient and keep low stress on cows, horses and people when using a rope on the ranch.

Quarters Offered: Winter, Spring

This course is designed to cover Training Quality Assurance industry quality standards and certifications for working on ranches where horsemanship, stockmanship and roping skills are required.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Gain knowledge in preparing a horse to pack and properly train a horse to pull a wagon under a harness.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Covers the practical application of managing an equine facility. Teaches the proper horse handling skills, risk management, and professionalism required to become a stable worker or stable manager.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Covers the practical application of managing an equine facility. Teaches the proper horse handling skills, risk management, and professionalism required to become a herd manager or equine facility director.Prerequisites: ANS 151

Quarters Offered: Spring

Covers the practical application of designing a equine facility for all ages of horses.Prerequisites: ANS 152

Quarters Offered: Fall

Teaches the basic fundamentals of horsemanship and safety issues when handling horses while saddling, bridling, mounting, dismounting and riding.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Teaches the basic fundamentals of horsemanship skills while handling and riding horses. Improves the student's feel, timing, and control while riding up to the lope.Prerequisites: ANS 181, or instructor approval.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Continues to develop the rider's feel and timing while performing more advanced fundamental maneuvers. Teaches more advanced horse theory and performance skills.Prerequisites: ANS 182

Quarters Offered: Fall

Introduces horse and rider to the fundamentals of training and competing on a reining horse. Includes working experience in the arena.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Introduces horse and rider to the fundamentals of training and competing on a cow horse with an emphasis on fence work.

Quarters Offered: Spring

This course teaches students how to use ranch work to instill a strong foundation on a rope horse, how to introduce a horse to coming out of the box and how to prepare a horse to be sold as a rope horse, team roping, breakaway or calf-roping horse.Prerequisites: ANS 143 or Instructor approval

Quarters Offered: Spring

Presents the proper techniques of basic livestock skills, such as branding, implanting, and heat synchronization. Stresses livestock handling, sanitation, facility design, quality beef assurance, and personal safety. Includes skills demonstrated by a qualified veterinarian.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Teaches state-of-art technology and trends in the beef industry to produce a competitive, safe, wholesome food source for consumers. Taught on a workshop basis with many industry expert presentations and local field trips.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Studies food animal (bovine, ovine and swine) physiology and health. Including nutritional, metabolic and reproductive disorders; as well as preventative measures and treatments available.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Covers feedstuffs, their analysis, and animal use. Studies how processing affects bio-availability of feeds, mixing feeds to meet specific animal requirements, and meeting animal needs as they change due to increased production, reproduction, and growth. Teaches ration formulation by hand methods and computer.Prerequisites: ANS 121, ANS 211 preferred.

Quarters Offered: Winter, Spring

Covers all aspects of animal nutrition, including analysis of feedstuffs, the anatomy of ruminant and non-ruminant, nutrient metabolism, and the in-depth discussion on the required nutrients (water, protein, lipids, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins).Prerequisites: ANS 121 recommended.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Covers the history and development of beef cattle, their distribution and adaptation, the types and breeds of beef and dual-purpose cattle, and the fundamental principles of establishing a beef production herd. Discusses cattle, genetics, problems in breeding and feeding, buildings, and equipment.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Teaches proper techniques for checking beef cows for pregnancy. Discusses anatomy and physiology of cows, the estrus cycle, and a review of diseases associated with reproduction. Much of the class taught in the "field" under actual ranch conditions.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Teaches proper procedure in thawing and placing semen in the target area of cattle through "hands-on" experience. Includes nitrogen tank procedure, pregnancy testing, health factors, and genetic selection. Concludes with testing for the Artificial Insemination Certification for Oregon.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Introduces various breeds of horses and their characteristics, including anatomy of the skeletal and muscular system, and parts of the horse and their functions. Discusses the maintenance and purchase of horse equipment, including bits, bridles, grooming supplies, and saddles.

Quarters Offered: Spring

The course focuses on meeting the industry quality standards for halter training a horse for the public.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Studies horse health and soundness, including in depth anatomy, diseases, nutrition, soundness or lameness issues, and the available treatments.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Examines correct procedures in genetic selection, pedigree and performance. Covers developing a bookkeeping system, and how to market, purchase and evaluate horses according to conformation.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Applies principles learned in livestock breeding to dairy, horses, pigs, and sheep. Provides students a hands-on opportunity to apply what they have learned about selection. Includes several field trips to local farms/ranches to learn breeding program management.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Covers, in depth, basic fundamentals of livestock evaluation and selection of cattle, sheep, swine and goats for herd replacement and market. Teaches students to "see" differences between two or more animals in the areas of structure, muscle, capacity/volume, femininity/masculinity, and eye appeal.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Reviews performance data (including EPD's), and situations/scenarios. Teaches students to describe written and oral differences between cattle, sheep, and swine; also to take notes and describe differences between animals with proper terms and phrases.Prerequisites: ANS 231

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Combines all information from the Introduction and Intermediate Livestock Evaluation classes. Teaches students to place livestock classes based on the situation/scenario, performance data, and visual evaluation. Requires students to express their placings with written and oral reasons.Prerequisites: ANS 231 and 232.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Provides the opportunity to compete at regional and national livestock judging contests. Prepares for competition with weekly work-outs, placing livestock classes based on the situation/scenario, performance data, and visual evaluation. Requires students to express their placings with written and oral reasons.Prerequisites: ANS 231, 232, and 233.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Presents information on what ultrasound technology is and how it can be used in animal agriculture. Familiarizes students with ultrasound terminology and machine operations. Includes hands-on opportunities for scanning cattle, sheep, and hogs.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Reviews ultrasound terminology, machine operations, preparing the animal for scanning, and proper procedures for scanning. Practices scanning cattle, sheep, and hogs for fat thickness, ribeye/loineye area, and percent intramuscular fat. Includes interpreting and entering data into a spreadsheet to make carcass predictions.Prerequisites: ANS 240.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Follows market animals (cattle, sheep and swine) from the finishing phase to the meat counter. Includes slaughter, meat grading and evaluation, inspection, structure and composition of muscle, conversion of muscle to meat, microbiology and sanitation, cookery of meat, and nutritive value of meat.

Quarters Offered: Fall

This class introduces the student to the industry quality standards for starting a horse for the public. This class teaches the industry timeline, quality standards and expectations from the client when receiving payment for training a horse. Students will go through the entire "colt starting" process with an already trained horse to learn correct training philosophy and safety procedures to prepare the student train an un-started horse.

Quarters Offered: Winter

This course focuses on applying the knowledge and skill students have received from Intro to Colt Starting to training an un-started horse. The focus of this course will be on safety as students work to meet the industry colt starting standard in training an un-started horse for the public.Prerequisites: ANS 251

Quarters Offered: Spring

This course focuses on taking the confidence students have received from Intro to Colt Starting and Colt Starting to equip students to meet the industry colt starting standard for training horses for the public or become a riding assistant for a trainer in the industry.Prerequisites: ANS 252

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Covers the practical application of designing and managing a stable for all ages of horses.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Presents newer ideas and procedures involved with impregnating mares, along with common problems facing the mares and stallion during the breeding.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Covers reproduction anatomy of male and female livestock, and basic genetic terms and principles. Teaches students to design a breeding program utilizing EPD's and performance data based on different breeding systems used in today's livestock operations.