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Animal Science Facilities

Herds on the move. Lab coats, backpacks, work boots and briefcases — they have a common purpose: progress.

At our Animal Science facilities, faculty, industry professionals, researchers and students come together to discover, communicate and apply knowledge in sustainable animal agriculture.

Whether in business, research or personal projects, you help shape what’s next in animal agriculture.

Choose from Animal Science Facilities (menu)
  • Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center
  • Beef Cattle Systems
  • Beef Center
  • Equine Nutrition Research and Reproductive Teaching Center
  • Freeman Arena
  • G. Rollie White Visitor Center
  • Kleberg Animal and Food Sciences Center
  • Louis Pearce Pavilion
  • McGregor Research Center
  • Nutrition and Physiology Center
  • O. D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex
  • Rosenthal Meat Science and Technology Center
  • Sensory Testing 
  • Sheep and Goat Center
  • Swine Center
  • Thomas G. Hildebrand, DVM ’56 Equine Complex

Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center

Modern building facade with text reading Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center, one of the Animal Science facilities.

Research and teaching center focused on pregnancy and development science

Address

1895 Avenue D (RELLIS Campus)
Bryan, Texas 77807

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Spaces

27,000 square feet of indoor and covered outdoor areas, including holding pens, chutes, recovery spaces, classrooms, labs and offices

Contact

Ky Pohler
979-458-4476
[email protected]

Beef Cattle Systems

Man riding a horse on a dirt road next to a green field that is surrounded by a fence, part of the Animal Science facilities.

Cattle ranch supporting research in forages, grazing and beef cattle production

Address

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Spaces

800 acres in the Brazos River bottomland, with perennial and annual forages, a 200-head commercial cow herd, and two pens with a data collection system

Contact

Kendall Daniels
[email protected]

Beef Center

The outside of the Beef Center building.

Center for collaborating with industry groups on beef cattle management

Address

7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Highway 60)
College Station, Texas 77845

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Contact

Scott McElfresh
[email protected]

Equine Nutrition Research and Reproductive Teaching Center

Two doors with the A&M logo on the windows of the doors.

Learning center for equine nutrition, reproduction and development

Address

3190 F and B Road
College Station, Texas 77843

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Spaces

Home to 76 head of American Quarter Horses, including stallions, broodmares, foals and young riding horses

Contact

Krissy Schroeder
979-966-8826
[email protected]

Freeman Arena

Multiple people sitting in Freeman Arena bleachers, one of the Animal Science facilities.

Covered arena for equine classes, horse shows, rodeos and contests

Address

7802 Turkey Creek Road
College Station, Texas 77845

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Spaces

200- by 350-foot arena — part of the 65-acre Equestrian Center

Contact

Krissy Schroeder
979-845-4320
[email protected]

G. Rollie White Visitor Center

The G. Rollie White Visitor Center.

Event space for seminars, meetings, conferences and more

Front office to the O.D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex

Address

7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Highway 60)
College Station, Texas 77845

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Contact

Nikki Marchant
979-314-8531
[email protected]

Kleberg Animal and Food Sciences Center

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Academic building that houses the Department of Animal Science

Address

474 Olsen Boulevard
College Station, Texas 77845

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Spaces

5-story building of study areas, classrooms, labs, offices and conference rooms

Louis Pearce Pavilion

A guy showing a pig in a corral, in the Louis Pearce Pavilion, with multiple people standing around the corral with clipboards.

Multi-use facility for judging contests, youth camps and clinics

Address

555 George Bush Drive West
College Station, Texas 77840

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Spaces

Air-conditioned building that includes a classroom, the Wool and Mohair Evaluation Lab, a dirt arena and covered livestock pens

Contact

Dr. Shawn Ramsey
979-314-8525
[email protected]

McGregor Research Center

The McGregor Research Center pasture with a fence to the right.

Livestock and farming pastureland in central Texas, managed by a staff

Address

773 Ag Farm Road
McGregor, Texas 76657

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Spaces

6,372 acres of native and introduced pastureland, including 1,000 breeding females, 60+ herd of bulls, a feed yard (1,200-head capacity), and 1,500 acres of row crop (corn and sorghum sudan) and small grains (wheat and oats)

Contact

Dr. Ryon Walker
254-840-2878
[email protected]

Nutrition and Physiology Center

The Animal Nutrition and Physiology Center building at the O.D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex.

Labs and animal feeding areas that support nutrition research

Address

7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Highway 60)
College Station, Texas 77845

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Spaces

45-acre center with a large animal main lab building, individual animal feeding and handling areas, group animal areas, and a diet storage and handling area — part of the O.D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex

Contact

Julie Kellerman
[email protected]

O. D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex

The O.D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex sign.

Central place for several facilities devoted to teaching, research and extension

Address

7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Highway 60)
College Station, Texas 77845

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Spaces

580 acres spanning five research facilities

Contact

Kenton Kruger
979-862-7554
[email protected]

Rosenthal Meat Science and Technology Center

A professor showing a carcass that is hanging in the front of the classroom to ll the students.

Meat processing, smoking, packaging and selling facility 

Address

488 Olsen Boulevard
College Station, Texas 77843

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Spaces

A meat grocery store, receiving and holding pens, four large meat coolers, a cutting room, a processed meat manufacturing room, a research room, three smokehouses, and a fresh and cooked meat packaging area 

Contact

Ray Riley
979-845-5651
[email protected]

Sensory Testing 

Girl with pink gloves and cap, wearing a lab cat and an apron at Sensory Testing.

Labs for food evaluation, texture analysis and consumer testing

Address

474 Olsen Boulevard
College Station, Texas 77845

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Spaces

A panel for aroma, color, flavor and texture; food service and consumer cooking systems; 24 sensory booths with white or colored lights; testing and preparation areas; a walk-in cooler and freezer; a Food Texture Analyzer system; and testing technologies for trained and consumer sensory methods

Contact

Dr. Rhonda Miller
[email protected]

Sheep and Goat Center

A picture of multiple sheep in a field of grass.

Resource center for information about the sheep and goat industry

Address

7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Highway 60)
College Station, Texas 77845

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Contact

Allen McElroy
[email protected]

Swine Center

Two pigs sitting on a wooden floor.

Research and teaching center focused on pork production

Address

7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Highway 60)
College Station, Texas 77845

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Spaces

50 breeding sow base herd, along with research opportunities in breeding, gestation, farrowing, growing and finishing

Contact

Ed Savage
[email protected]

Thomas G. Hildebrand, DVM ’56 Equine Complex

The entrance of The Thomas G. Hildebrand, which has a statue of a man on a horse.

Home to equine athletic teams and equine teaching and outreach

Address

3240 F and B Road
College Station, Texas 77843

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Spaces

Open for tours, meetings, events and facility rentals; teaching and outreach spaces with classrooms, event and meeting areas, and offices; two arenas and barns for the NCAA Women’s Equestrian Team; and a cross-country course for the Cross Country Team and local, state, national and international meets

Contact

Nikki Marchant
979-458-9167
[email protected]

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