jolene roth

* Maintain hygiene and overall health of lactating cows * Record data about feed intake and milk weights and watch for significant changes

* Experience in handling, feeding, and cleaning up after pigs, opossums, chickens, rabbits, mice, and rats * Maintain cleanliness of rooms * Take care of animals infected with diseases

* Assist with herd health: feed, shots, watched for signs of illness * Help with field work and harvesting: corn, soybeans, oats, wheat, hay * Operate tractor and skid steer for daily chores * Assist in all aspects of hay operation * Operate tractor with tedder, rake, and baler * Maneuver and unloaded wagons of hay and grain

* Set up and care for soybean and corn research plots * Field research dealing with Soybean Aphids and Corn Rootworm * Collect and enter data on numbers of bugs and types of feeding on plants

* Performed regular animal husbandry by feeding, administering oral medications, and watching for illness and lameness * Organized inventory of feed, hay, and tack supplies * Maintained cleanliness of barn, stalls, pastures, grounds * Responsible for barn care when manager was not present

* Oversee Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and other studies by working with principle investigators, graduate and undergraduate students, and study sponsors to design, organize, and schedule trials * Assist with development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for facility and annual review of SOPs and policies, organization of facility paperwork and records, and data preparation to ensure quality data collection and compliance with facility, sponsor, and university standards * Lead nutritional study observing the effects of feeding dried distillers grains to growing steers on gaseous air emissions * Calibrate and maintain process analyzers and sampling equipment to ensure quality data acquisition * Train employees and monitor daily work to ensure high quality animal husbandry for beef and dairy cattle (steers, heifers, and lactating cows), laying hens, broiler hens, turkeys, swine (market and farrowing), and horses as part of research studies