Dr. Kyle Thompson received his B.S. degree in animal science from Fresno State (2006)
and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in animal science from Oklahoma State (2011/2015).
He teaches classes in dairy cattle production. He joined the staff in the fall of
2016 after taking classes and teaching at Oklahoma State from January 2007-June 2016
and serving as the graduate student assistant manager of the campus dairy cattle center.
His research included dairy nutrition research trials and lactating cow probiotics.
He also assisted in research for bovine respiratory disease, rumen temperature bolus,
milk production by weigh-suckle-weigh and swine antimicrobial replacements. He also
assisted in 4-H and FFA Field Day dairy judging competitions. While in Stillwater,
OK, he owned and operated Wild Acre Farms and Exotics, which raised ewes, game birds,
free range hens and other fowl/animals, and produced grasses and winter wheat for
grazing and hay production. As a Fresno State student, he worked in the sheep unit
three years, served as a campus farm tour guide, and dairy unit herdsman and feed/hospital
technician. He also worked as an exotic animal nutrition intern (2009) and global
nutrition fellow at the San Diego Zoo (2013).
Dairy nutrition research trials and lactating cow probiotics, bovine respiratory disease,
rumen temperature bolus, milk production by weigh-suckle-weigh and swine antimicrobial
replacements.
