The main goals of this department are to educate students in both the basic sciences and applied biotechnologies to meet the needs of the current animal and bio-tech industries as well as economic growth of the society. These goals will be achieved by:
(1) Offering courses covering the major fields of animal breeding and genetics, animal nutrition, anatomy and physiology, reproductive biology, livestock farming and management, as well as feed production.
(2) Placing equal emphasis on fundamental aspects and practical application.
(3)Training students and assist farmers to promote animal production and management knowledge.
In addition to the educational goals, the Department is engaged in several research projects as follows:
(1) Establishment of the techniques of DNA fingerprinting.
(2) Breeding and preservation of Taiwan native chicken.
(3) Development of the food preservative, mucopeptide N-acetylmuramylhydrolyase, extracted from eggs.
(4) Application of various animal resources and new materials for feeds.
(5) Improvement on the processing technology of milk, meat and egg.
(6) Development of probiotic and herbs for using as feed additives.
(7) Cloning and construction of high economic value genes for mass production of transgenic animals.
(8) Establishment of feed calculator online, recording and management of animal production, computer simulation modeling of animal production systems, and expert systems online.