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Central Kentucky Company Featured on "Dirty Jobs"

By Brenna Angel

VERSAILLES, Ky. – The icky task of collecting horse feces and urine will be the focus of the latest episode of "Dirty Jobs," a nationally televised cable show that highlights messy-but-necessary professions across the country. Show host Mike Rowe spent time at Kentucky Equine Research this summer and saw the inner workings of nutrition research.

"He got to put on some gloves and do some of that. Occasionally we will need a poo sample that hasn't been contaminated by anything else, so Mike actually, our veterinarian taught him how to take a live sample from a horse."

But Kentucky Equine Research spokeswoman Kim Brown says producers with the Discovery Channel soon realized there was more to the Woodford County-based company.

"When they got here they found out there was a lot more science to it, and Discovery had wanted to have more science in the programs. So they came up with a one hour program featuring a lot of the things we do here at Kentucky Equine Research."

"Dirty Jobs" airs Tuesday night at 9 on the Discovery Channel.