4 Animal Husbandry Degree Programs in Canada

Launch your future in the livestock industry with Lakeland’s Diploma in Animal Science Technology: Livestock Science Major. Our courses are species-specific. You’ll choose between beef and dairy production for your in-depth study, but you’ll also learn about bison, horses and other livestock.

The Diploma in Animal Science Technology Diploma: Dairy Science Major has activities ranging from practical herd management to implementing new technologies. You’ll graduate armed with the knowledge and tools to return to the farm or to make your mark in another area of the dairy sector.

The Diploma in Animal Science Technology Diploma: Beef Science Major will make you go beyond the classroom and into the real world, from pasture to plate. You’ll study commercial and purebred cow/calf operations as well as feedlots.  And, you’ll go through the complete production cycle.

Cultivating and processing animal feed contributes a disproportionate share of the resource and environmental impacts of livestock production. Social license for the livestock sector will also likely be increasingly predicated on its ability to reduce direct competition for arable land and human-edible feed resources. This four year, funded Ph.D. project will answer this challenge by (1) identifying and mapping the availability of alternative feed resources for the poultry industry in Canada, including (for example), single-cell proteins from forest industry residues, insects meals, and food waste-to-feed products; (2) undertaking detailed environmental life cycle assessment and techno-economic assessments of each feed resource pathway, and (3) assessing their potential for contributing to sustainable poultry production based on a combination of environmental, economic, and nutritional objectives and constraints.