Agriculture Department Wish List
Los Angeles Pierce College is a non-profit, higher education center.  We thus qualify under federal tax laws to accept donations on a fully tax-deductible basis.  Those wishing to donate cash can donate via the college's Foundation and ear mark your donations to one or more of the following areas.  Those wishing to purchase items from the following list can also make your donations to the college's Foundation.  For more information please contact the college's foundation office at 818-703-0826  or Dr. Shapiro at drcows@aol.com. Corporate donations and large individual donations  will have their names listed on our Department's Donation Thank You page

The Farm

            Large "thank you" sign to be placed on the wall in the Agriculture Building listing corporations and individual donors.

             Computerized record system (see www.midwestmicro.com)   (see also www.cattlesoft.com)

            Farm Fencing (see www.kencove.com)

             Pasture seed (see http://www.stoverseed.com/guidemix.html )

         Skiploader to cleanup the sheep and goat unit - needs to have front bucket and rear scraper           http://photos.equine.com/newsletters/Standalone/johndeere/apr08/emailEQS.html
           Flat bed truck to haul hay and other items to each of our animal units.

  Beef Unit

            Quality semen (registered Angus, registered Jersey)

             Vaccines (see www.grandlab.com, www.elanco.com, www.agrilabs.com,  www.pfizerlivestock.com,   www/boeringer-ingelheim.com, )

             Kamar Heat Mount Detectors (1-800-345-8846)

             Early conception factor pregnancy tests (see http://www.concepto-diagnostics.com)

             Alfalfa and/or oat hay

             Livestock handling equipment (see www.powderriver.com)

             Livestock scale (see www.tru-test.com)

        Sheep Unit

            Alfalfa and oat hay
            Unique young healthy breeding ewes - scrapies free

     Goat Unit

            Alfala and/or oat hay
            Breeding boer buck - scrapies free

     Horse Unit

            Alfalfa and/or oat hay

     Horticulture
            Green House

         Llama Unit

      Alfalfa hay

     Nature Center
 

     Poultry Unit
            Poultry feed, candling machine, egg sorter, refrigerator (for the eggs), bedding (straw), new (but small modular housing unit to hold 500 birds -               free range).

      Swine Unit
            Pig feed (gilt and sow feed)

            Farmweld feeders (stainless steel) (see www.farmweld.com)

             Boar semen (see www.piggene.com)

             Bred gilts (see www.piggene.com)

         Hay Unit

           bale wagon

                tractor

                flatbed truck

                Pasture aerator (see www.lawsonaerator.com) 

                Water reel (see http://www.waterreels.com/ )

Classes
    Ag Classes (in general)

           Computers (up to date) with projector to use in classroom presentations

           Digital camera 

           Mounted Power Point projector  

    Anatomy and Physiology

       Expired suture material for anatomy lab (to practice on cadavers)

          Compound Microscopes

          Bones (clean) from all species

          Anatomical charts (laminated) (see www.anatomical.com)

          Anatomical models (digestive system, ear, head, kidney, lung, skin, teeth, urinary systems)

          Veterinary laminated anatomy charts of the horse, cat, dog (www.anatomical.com)

    Animal Nutrition

          Preserved feed samples

          Kjeldahl testing equipment

          Feed moisture meter
 

    Principles of Animal Science

     Livestock equipment display for each specie

            (see wish list for each specie's farm unit)
 

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