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Horse Jamboree/Horse Communications Contest
Horse Jamboree/Horse Communications Contest
Bloodless Worm Sheds Light on Human Blood, Iron Deficiency Dr. Iqbal Hamza comments on how iron carried in human blood is absorbed and transported into the body.
Estrogenic Chemicals Change Birds' Tunes Dr. Mary Ann Ottinger comments on the mechanisms of hormone effects on birds. 
Top 10 Animal Sciences Departments in the nation. Our department was ranked among the Top 10 Animal Sciences departments in the nation in the 2007 rankings published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. ANSC Extension: Specialists
ANSC Extension Specialists
1. ANSC Extension Specialists
- Roselina Angel - Improving nutrient retention and reducing nutrient waste in broilers and laying hens through the use of feed additives, feed nutrient changes and ingredient choice.
- Amy Burk - Coordinator for statewide youth and adult educational programs related to equine science and management.
- John Doerr - Nutrition and safety of research eggs, broiler and layer flock management, and prevention of mycotoxicoses in production flocks.
- Rich Erdman - Dairy cattle nutrtion.
- Inma Estevez - Broiler and laying hen behavior, and management and welfare.
- Rick Kohn – Animal nutrient management, and the impact of animal production on on air and water resources.
- Bob Peters - Administrative coordinator of Animal and Avian Sciences Extension Program. Focus is on dairy management with emphasis on dairy quality management.
- M. Scott Updike - Muscle Biology
- Mark Varner - Reproductive management of dairy cattle, and co-moderator of Dairy-L.
- Nick Zimmermann - Poultry drinking water quality program. Non-chemical health managem4ent programs. Ameliorating high phosphorus levels in soil, water, and poultry litter.
2. Other Maryland Cooperative Extension Agricultural Specialists/Educators
- County Agent - extension educators for your county in Maryland.
- Dale Johnson - Agricultural Economist.
- Howard Leathers - Dairy marketing, agricultural policy and world agricultural supply and demand.
- Martin Lo - Food saftey.
- Wes Musser - Crop insurance, farm management and risk management.
- Nathaniel L Tablante - Poultry health.
- Lester Vough - Maryland Forages Program.
- Susan Schoenian - Sheep and Goat Specialist .
- Kristen Wilson - MD 4H State Horse Program.
