The WVU Dairy is part of the universities 935-acre Animal and Veterinary Sciences Farm on the outskirts of Morgantown. The farm is composed of many segments and components, with beef feedlots and handling facilities, sheep research and lambing barns, poultry houses, a swine facility, the Farm Animal Research Facility, Show Pavilion, feed mill, class room building, as well as the dairy. The dairy is made up of the main dairy barn--which includes the parlor, cow housing, calving and rearing pens, and feeding and storage facilities—and the heifer barn. A milking herd of approximately fifty-five registered Holsteins and Ayrshires are divided into five bays and milked in a double-three Side Open/Tandem parlor. Ongoing research primarily involves nutritional studies utilizing the farms Calan Gates and GrowSafe Feeding Systems, as well as growth, development, and reproductive studies.Both the Holstein herd and the Ayrshire herd hold significant historical importance. The current Holstein herd reportedly traces back to five cows which originally made up the herd, and a portion of the Ayrshire herd makes up the Lawrence A. Reymann Memorial Ayrshire Herd which was began in 1897—making it the oldest continuous Ayrshire herd in the country.