Workshop, 2016 Black Sheep Gathering: Practical Tips for Sheep & Goat Producers

Workshop Name: “Tips, Tips, Tips: Practical Notes for Sheep & Goat Producers”

This will be one of the most useful and down-to-earth production workshops you’ve ever attended. We will cover dozens of sheep and goat topics and give practical tips about them. Lambing, kidding, flushing, breeding, late-gestation nutrition, feeding in the jug, bottle-feeding, weaning, minerals, vitamins, reading those feed-tags, new feed regulations. Details on copper, selenium, lambing percentages, and how and when to take forage and feed samples. Nutritional problems like bloat, ketosis, grass tetany, acidosis, and various deficiencies. Some critical points about selecting forages, avoiding pasture problems, and placing fences for intensive grazing. Tips about wool and shearing, including making your shearing day easier. And because today’s agricultural world is also a technological world, we’ll cover useful tips about Google searches and other Internet features like maps, Dropbox, and useful websites and apps you really want to know about. This session will be cram-packed with usable information. Bring your questions and your experiences – we will share tips. And also bring lots of paper to take notes.