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New stuff

Wild & Woolly Spring 2012 issue | PDF
[ONLINE QUIZ] Sheep & Goat Nutrition
Create a biosecurity template online
Foot health webinar recordings and handout
Feeding and nutrition webinar recordings

Recently added links

[PDF] Diseases of the newborn - Egypt HEEPF
How To Videos - Farmer's Weekly UK
[PDF] Goat farming as a business - Netherlands
Going into goats: profitable producers' best practice guide - ML Australia
Lambing Live - Soil Association (UK)
[PDF] Lice: what are they and how to control them - NC State
[PDF] Sheep Education Catalog - American Sheep Industry Association

General Links

Shepherd's Notebook blog | subscribe
W MD Pasture-Based Meat Goat Performance Test Blog
Goat test main page (archive of reports)
Wild & Woolly Sheep/Goat Newsletter Main Page
Sheep & Wool Skillathon at MS&WF
Goat Skillathon at Western Maryland Goat Field Day & Sale
Sheep, goat, and livestock online quizzes
[PDF] Order scrapie ear tags
Sheep and Goat References
Sheep 101 Home Page
Sheep 201: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Sheep
Webinar recordings

Quick Reference Tables

Ethnic holiday calendar 2011-2015
[PDF] Antibiotics for sheep and goats
[PDF] The internal parasites that affect sheep and goats
[PDF] Anthelmintics for sheep and goats
Optimal slaughter weight for lambs
[PDF] Coccidiostats for sheep and goats
Products used to treat and control external parasites
[PDF] Vaccines for sheep and goats
Timeline for a ewe and her lambs (by Martha Polkey)

Small Ruminant Info Sheets

CD-T vaccinations
Coccidiosis: deadly scourge of young lambs and kids
Colostrum: "liquid gold"
Creep feeding primer
Weaning Primer
MORE . . . 

PowerPoint presentations

Goat hoof health and management | PDF
Integrated parasite management in sheep | PDF
Late gestation: preparing for lambing | PDF
Sheep hoof health and management | PDF
My PowerPoint presentations at Slideshare
MORE . . .

Spreadsheets

Meat Goat Budget
2011 UME Meat Goat Ration Evaluator .XLSX | .XLS
RationMixer
Ration Evaluator
Sheep Budget
MORE . . .

Forms

[PDF] Individual Ewe Record Sheet
[PDF] Barn Record Sheet (sheep)
[PDF] Individual Doe Record Sheet
[PDF] Barn Record Sheet (meat goat)

Program Proceedings

2005 Hair Sheep Workshop @ Virginia State University
2005 Lambing & Kidding School @ Carroll Community College
2009 Lambing & Kidding School in Waldorf, MD
2011 Lambing & Kidding School @ Chesapeake College

Abstracts

Carcass traits of pasture-raised goats
Characterizing the parasite challenge of meat goats grazing summer pastures
Developing a meat goat performance testing program in Maryland
MORE . . .

Peer-reviewed fact sheets

[PDF] Housing, facilities, and equipment for meat goat production
[PDF] Raising goats for meat
Mid-Atlantic 4-H Meat Goat Project Guide | PDF



 Susan at a sheep farm in Brazil

 Katahdin ewe with crossbred lambs from 2012 lamb crop  

 

The Maryland Small Ruminant Page [sheepandgoat.com] is a privately-owned web site. It was created in 1998 as an information portal for sheep and goat producers and anyone else interested in small ruminant production. The web site includes original documents and images as well as a comprehensive list of links pertaining to small ruminants and related topics. The web site was developed and is solely maintained by Susan Schoenian, Extension Sheep & Goat Specialist at the University of Maryland's Western Maryland Research & Education Center in Keedsyville, Maryland. Susan has been with University of Maryland Extension since 1988. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Animal Science from Virginia Tech and Montana State University, respectively. Susan raises purebred and crossbred Katahdin sheep on a small farm she calls The Baalands in Clear Spring, Maryland. Please direct all questions, comments, or suggestions to Susan at sschoen@umd.edu.

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Disclaimer: The information and links contained on the Maryland Small Ruminant Page [sheepandgoat.com] and other pages created by Susan Schoenian are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of any person, organization, business, product, or web site. The author disclaims any liability in connection with the use of this information. Common sense and sound judgement should be applied to all information obtained from the web, regardless of source. In matters of animal health, producers are advised to seek competent veterinary assistance.

Last updated 30-Apr-2012 by Susan Schoenian.