The multipurpose building includes a complete surgical suite (900 square feet) with adjacent preparatory and recovery rooms and a 300 square feet laboratory equipped with hood, CO2 incubator, and centrifuge. Sheep and cattle are housed in adjacent outside pens equipped with feeders, waterers, chutes, and scales. The multipurpose building also contains areas for conducting sheep and cattle metabolism trials. This building is temperature controlled.

The wool research facilities include the only university commercial wool scouring train in the country. In addition, carding, blending, and combing equipment are also present. The wool facilities are equipped to provide measurements of wool fiber diameter, and they include a fiber image analyzer. Other measurements include clean wool yield (both individual fleece measurement and large lots), color, fiber length, and fiber strength. Image analysis technology for measuring skin parameters is also present.

Research laboratories specializing in lipid, protein, growth, and food microbiology abattoir and contain the following equipment: Gas chromatograph, scintillation counter, centrifuges, microfuges, gel electrophoresis apparatus for protein, DU-20 spectrophotometer, sterile hood and incubator, water baths, pH meters, freeze dryers, vacuum pumps, refrigerators, mixer homogenizers, slab dryer, fluorescence spectrophotometer, calorimeter, balances, and tissumizers.

The Department of Animal Science maintains a 1700 square feet reproductive biology laboratory with three small (300 square feet) adjacent laboratories equipped for cell culture, histology, and sample extraction and preparation. The cell culture room is equipped with a laminar-flow hood and a CO2 incubator (Flow Labs #1500). In addition, equipment necessary for modern molecular biology procedures has been provided.