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Applied Research | Sheep Metabolites

Dec 07, 2018

Video: Applied Research | Sheep Metabolites


Lakeland College Applied Research and our student-managed farm (SMF) are collaborating in a metabolomic technology project with Alberta Agriculture & Forestry and partners.
The project is testing for metabolites indicative of the pregnancy status and litter size of sheep. By determining if particular metabolites present in sheep carrying single vs multiples, the project will potentially enable producers to manage nutritional requirements of their flock and improve the survival rate during lambing. In its latter phases the project aims to develop a pregnancy diagnostics kit that will be an upgrade to ultrasound in its accessibility and accuracy.