The research program for the PI (Leal Yepes) and additional major instrument users focuses on enhancing the health, management, production, and sustainability of dairy cows and calves. Our group utilizes blood metabolite profiles from cows and calves to study such a problems in dairy herds. The requested equipment is the Stat Profile Prime Plus Vet, a blood gas analyzer from Nova Biomedical (Massachusetts, USA). This instrument is vital for supporting the research initiatives of all the faculty in this request. Currently, most of the blood samples analyzed are submitted to commercial diagnostic laboratories. Some metabolites can be analyzed using in-house ELISA kits, which are costly and time-consuming. This is an economic burden for our research projects and limits the accuracy and number of samples analyzed. Moreover, some of the blood metabolite analyses we perform are time-sensitive (e.g., pH, Ionized calcium, and Ionized Magnesium), and the lack of this blood analyzer is truncating our ability to research some critical topics of dairy cattle physiology. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only blood gas analyzer commercially available that can measure ionized Magnesium (iMg) in bovine samples. Hence, this machine will optimize our research efforts by minimizing costs and analysis time. In addition, it will allow us to explore new topics of dairy cow and calf health management, production, and sustainability that require time-sensitive blood metabolites profiling.