Laboratory Animal Suppliers

Millbrook Breeding Labs
1730 S East Street
Amherst, MA 01002
Phone: (413) 253-5083
Fax: (413) 253-0562
Web: www.millbrooklabs.com
Contact: Robert McAllister, President
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (rabbits); also provides contract research services. “Our operation consists of six breeding buildings that are purposely located on five separate sites.” Located at intersection of Bay Road, Warrren Wright Road and Lamson Avenue (southeast of the city center).

Connecticut Valley Biological
82 Valley Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Phone: (800) 628-7748 or (413) 527-4030
Fax: (800) 355-6813
Web: www.ctvalleybio.com
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (fish, amphibians, chicken eggs)

DaVINCI Biomedical Research Products
40 Maple Street
South Lancaster, MA 01561
Phone: (978) 368-3477
Fax: (978) 368-3579
Web: www.davincibiomed.com
Contact: Joe Villani, President
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (“preinstrumented” rats, guinea pigs, sheep, pigs, goats, dogs, non-human primates, rabbits and mice); also provides contract research services. See Garner, NC.

New England National Primate Research Center
One Pine Hill Drive
Southborough, MA 01772
Phone: (508) 624-8002
Fax: (508) 460-0612
Web: www.hms.harvard.edu/nerprc
Contact: Ronald C. Desrosiers, Director
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (nonhuman primates). NEPRC is one of eight National Primate Research Centers funded by the National Center for Research Resources, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The centers breed nonhuman primates for laboratories and universities engaged in NIH-sponsored research. The centers also supply nonhuman primate blood samples, organs and biological fluids. Located on 135 acres in Southborough. Harvard Medical School administers the Center. Houses more than 1,800 monkeys for research and breeding.

Elm Hill Labs
7 Kidder Road
Chelmsford, MA 01824
Phone: (800) 941-4349
Fax: (978) 256-2545
Web: www.elmhilllabs.com
Contact: Bob Kydd, Jean Kydd, Robb Kydd
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (guinea pigs)

Charles River Laboratories
251 Ballardvale Street
Wilmington, MA 01887
Phone: (877) CRIVER-1 or (978) 658-6000
Fax: (978) 658-7132
Web: www.criver.com
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (chickens, gerbils, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rabbits, rats); also provides contract research services. “101 production facilities, offices, and laboratories in 17 countries and approximately 7,500 employees worldwide.” See also Houston, TX and Alamogordo, NM.

Marine Biotech
54A West Dane Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Phone: (888) 624-8265 or (978) 927-8720
Fax: (978) 921-0231
Web: www.marinebiotech.com
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (fish, amphibians)

Cytogen Research and Development
89 Bellevue Hill Road
West Roxbury, MA 02132
Phone: (617) 325-7774
Fax: (617) 327-2405
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (hamsters)

Rhenos
85 Gate House Road
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: (617) 879-0088
Fax: (617) 278-9145
Web: www.rhenos.com
Contact: Jeffrey Rosenberg
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (importer of nonhuman primates). Also known as Pacific Forest Resources?

Bio Breeders
116 Templeton Pkwy.
Watertown, MA 02472
Phone: (617) 926-5278
Fax: (617) 926-6789
Web: www.biobreeders.com
Contact: Freddy Homburger, President
Notes: Laboratory animal supplier (hamsters)

 

Fur Farms

Berkshire Furs
172 Peru Road / County Road 143
Hinsdale, MA 01235
Phone: (413) 655-2653
Contact: Earl & Jeanne Carmel
Notes: Located east of the city center. The Carmel family also operates a retail store, Beck Furs, in Albany, NY (www.beckfurs.com).

 

Trapping

Massachusetts Trappers Association
Web: www.masstrappers.org
Notes: state trapping association

 

Slaughterhouses

Adams Farms
775 Bearsden Road
Athol, MA 01331
Phone: (978) 249-9441
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Notes: Noreen Heath, Richard Adams, Beverly Adams, co-owners.

E.L. Blood and Son
94 W. Main Street
West Groton, MA 01472
Phone: (978) 448-6669
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