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.Los Angeles Pierce College is a community college. It is only because of the support of our local and extended community that we are able to offer quality programs to our students. This summer we offered a hands-on course in bovine artificial insemination. This was an advanced course - only offered to students who already completed animal anatomy and physiology, principles of animal science and the lecture online course in Artificial Insemination. The college president, Bob Garber, our dean, Dr. Carol Kozeracki, our department chair, Dick South all pulled together to allow us to use our "almost finished" new beef cattle facilities. Thank you!
In addition, Genex Cooperative, Inc.
gathered both resources and personnel needed to complete and teach this
course.
Ron Heim, certified artificial insemination instructor drove
from Chino three days in a row to help teach as well. His expertise,
his patience and his ability to calmly instruct beginning technicians
in this art is greatly appreciated. Bill Ziese, who
helped train several previous Pierce students and faculty coordinated
the supplies, instructor's assistant, cattle and cattle
transportation. Thank you Ron, Bill and Genex Cooperative, Inc.
Dairy farmer Art Marquez donated 13 of his cattle for nine
days to use as teaching tools for this unique laboratory. John
Anker of Anker Trucking, provided transportation for the cattle to
and from Chino Valley. Theresa
Polich of Webster Veterinary Supplies rushed needed supplies to
us at the last moment. Thank you Art, John and Theresa.
Dr. Rebecca Yates, Angela Killips - staff RVT, Russel Schrotenboer - Certified A.I. technician and college Agriculture Assistant all assisted in the teaching of the class. Bill Lander, Tom Bolger, and Lu Dao helped to prepare our teaching laboratory.
THANK YOU!
Last minute preparations on Father's Day, 2009
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First Day of Class - working with artificial cow and preserved reproductive tracts to master the technique prior to going into the live cow.
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First Day of Class = nervous students around the 1500 lb. bovines
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Our illustrious dean, Dr. Carol, giving us a hand
and our very own Angela Killips, RVT who always seems to know when we need her assistance in our labs and lectures both (thank you Angela)
Day Two - a little more confident at handling the inside of the cow
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Cleaning up at the end of each lab and feeding and caring for our cows on loan
Learning from the master, Ron Heim, on how to work with liquid nitrogen, frozen semen and the universal 1/4 and 1/2 cc breeding gun
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Day Three - using the steel gun, more semen handling, more experience in the cow
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Day Four - learning about heat detection methods, proper on farm semen handling, entering the cow, record keeping and of course - more time in the cow
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Group effort, an energetic AS516 class at work
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Team effort at transporting the cows back to Chino. Thank you John Anker Trucking, Lu, Tom, Bill, Doug, Steve, and Dr. Carol Kozeracki for assisting us on this day.
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