Southern Utah SHEEP AND GOAT EDUCATION DAY
Program Outline
February 4, 2012
Lexington Resort
850 South Bluff Street St George, Utah
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EVENT |
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| 8:00 am |
Registration/Breakfast on your own |
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| 8:30 am |
Welcome/Instructions/Introductions |
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| 8:45 am |
Keynote Speaker Charles Kay – Wolf Impact and Policies |
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| 9:45 am |
Break – Door Prizes |
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| 10:00 am |
Ram Health Management - Eric Dent DVM |
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| 10:45 am |
Ram Nutrition – Brett Taylor Growing and Maintenance |
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| 11:30 am |
Marketing and Alternative Agricultural Enterprises Lessons from Agricultural Start-ups Jackrabbit Ranch |
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| 12:00 noon |
Lunch, Raffles and Door Prizes Goat and Lamb Gourmet Lunch |
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| 1:00 – 3:00 |
Hands On Rotating Break Out Sessions |
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Section 1 |
Section 2 |
Section 3 |
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| 45 minute sessions repeated 2- 3 times as needed for group | Parasite Control Sheep and Goats FROMACA Certification (additional fee) Dr Kerry Rood | Sheep Health Panel-Eric Dent DVM | Club Goat Fitting and Conditioning-Cindy Shakespear |
| Economics of Meat Goat Production Roundtable | Hands on Ram
Conditioning Evaluation
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Club Lamb/Goat Feeding
Purina Mills |
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| Scrapie Presentation-
USDA |
Goat Health Panel
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Club Lamb Fitting and Conditioning-David Gust | |
Register at the door $25 individual, $40 couples, $15 students
Raffles and door prizes including a .22 caliber pistol and much more
Lunch alone worth more than the cost of registration
Sponsored by Utah Woolgrowers Association, Mountain States Meat Goat Association, Utah Woolgrowers Lamb Promotion Board, Boehringer Ingelheim, Utah State University Extension and Southern Utah University
If you have 5 or 5000 sheep or goats, you need to be at this event.
RSVP via email to sheepranch@msn.com
Jackrabbit Ranch will be presenting the segment on “Start-up Challenges.
