# Animal Sciences Extension

**Source**: https://ag.purdue.edu/department/ansc/extension.html
**Parent**: https://ag.purdue.edu/department/ansc/scholarships.html

Animal Sciences Extension

Animal Sciences Extension

# Animal Sciences Extension

Welcome to the Department of Animal Sciences Extension home page. Animal Sciences Extension is a part of a larger group, the [Cooperative Extension Service](https://extension.purdue.edu/index.html) (CES), one of the nation’s largest, most research-based providers of information and education.

The Animal Sciences Extension group is diverse in its interests and represents aquaculture, beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, poultry, sheep and swine. The group’s disciplines include animal waste management, genetics, meat science, nutrition and reproduction.

**Animal Sciences Extension Links:**

- [Extension Events](https://extension.purdue.edu/events/index.html)
- [Species Information](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/ansc/species-information.html)
- [Animal Sciences Research and Education Center (ASREC)](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/ansc/asrec/index.html)
- [Purdue Extension extends University's expertise to the public](https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2013/Q1/purdue-extension-extends-universitys-expertise-to-the-public.html)
- [First Steps to Flood Recovery](https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/ACS/ACS-101-W.pdf)
- ​[Purdue Extension Flood Resources](https://extension.purdue.edu/INPREPared/floods/)

## Extension Specialists

- **Jackie Boerman** | Nutrition Management - Dairy
  - (765) 496-6290
  - [jboerma@purdue.edu](mailto:jboerma@purdue.edu)
- **Colleen Brady** | Youth Development - Horse Companion Animals Veterinary Science
  - (765) 494-4834
  - [bradyc@purdue.edu](mailto:bradyc@purdue.edu)
- **Paul Ebner** | Food Safety Microbiology - Swine & Poultry
  - (765) 494-4820
  - [pebner@purdue.edu](mailto:pebner@purdue.edu)
- **Marisa Erasmus** | Behavior & Well-Being - Poultry
  - (765) 496-3886
  - [merasmus@purdue.edu](mailto:merasmus@purdue.edu)
- **Dale Forsyth** | Nutrition - Swine
  - (765) 494-4841
  - [dforsyth@purdue.edu](mailto:dforsyth@purdue.edu)
- **Darrin Karcher** | Management - Poultry
  - (765) 494-4845
  - [dkarcher@purdue.edu](mailto:dkarcher@purdue.edu)
- **Ron Lemenager** | Nutrition Management - Beef
  - (765) 494-4817
  - [rpl@purdue.edu](mailto:rpl@purdue.edu)
- **Brian Richert**  | Management, Nutrition Management - Swine
  - (765) 494-4837
  - [brichert@purdue.edu](mailto:brichert@purdue.edu)