At the Faculty of Agriculture, the Department, consists of Animal Breeding, Feeds and Animal Nutrition and, Biometrics and Genetics Units, gives four years education and the students are awarded the diploma of Agricultural Engineer

The Faculty of Agriculture was established on June 27, 1987 as a faculty of Dokuz Eylül University, and was affiliated with Adnan Menderes University on July 11, 1992. It started education in 1993-1994 education years. The department of Zootecnics also accepted students in 1993-1994 education year and graduated students firstly in 1997.

Within the scope of Research and Development in Animal Sciences, making significant contribution to local, regional, national and international animal production procedures, raising scientific personnel who understood modern knowledge and technology and have ability to develop it, to educate Animal Husbandry professionals and Agricultural Engineer to take nationwide and international duty.

In the direction of modern knowledge and technology, developing multi-disciplinary research projects in the solution of animal production problems, in the frame of the integration of animal farms, organizations and related foundations, especially raising quality breeding materials, to play a pioneering role in the management, nutrition and biotechnology of animal production.

1: To train qualified zootechnical agricultural engineers who can utilize contemporary knowledge and technologies in line with the principles of sustainable animal production and who can effectively participate in animal production, breeding, nutrition, and management at national and international levels. 2: To train individuals who can conduct innovative, high-value-added, and research-based studies in animal sciences and who contribute scientifically and technologically to animal production processes at local, national, and global levels. 3: To train professionals who possess professional ethical values, embrace lifelong learning, and act with a sense of social responsibility regarding sustainable development, animal welfare, the environment, and food safety.

In addition to the academic staff, there are 2 workers in the faculty animal farms, 2 public houses for them, feed depots and concentrate production unit (1 ton per hour), cattle production ( 120 heads milking cows, 180 heads fattening cattle), Small animal production unit (a barn with 500 heads sheep for putting researches and a barn with 100 heads goat), poultry unit (research barn with the capacity of 1000 chicken, there independent units, climatic and fully environmentally controlled, a quail cage for 400 quails, a automatic laying hens unit with 1500 hens, a laboratory, a poultry slaughtering unit and an equipment depot), a beekeeping unit (25 hives and 75 queen production hives, an instrumental insemination set) and 5 laboratories as two of them pre-laboratory in addition to two fully equipped laboratories, one of them at the central campus, the other one is at the faculty.

In addition to the academic staff, there are 2 workers in the faculty animal farms, 2 public houses for them, feed depots and concentrate production unit (1 ton per hour), cattle production ( 120 heads milking cows, 180 heads fattening cattle), Small animal production unit (a barn with 500 heads sheep for putting researches and a barn with 100 heads goat), poultry unit (research barn with the capacity of 1000 chicken, there independent units, climatic and fully environmentally controlled, a quail cage for 400 quails, a automatic laying hens unit with 1500 hens, a laboratory, a poultry slaughtering unit and an equipment depot), a beekeeping unit (25 hives and 75 queen production hives, an instrumental insemination set) and 5 laboratories as two of them pre-laboratory in addition to two fully equipped laboratories, one of them at the central campus, the other one is at the faculty.