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Welcome to the Maryland Small Ruminant Page [sheepandgoat.com], an information portal for sheep and goat producers and anyone else interested in small ruminants. The site was developed and is solely maintained by Susan Schoenian, University of Maryland Extension Sheep & Goat Specialist. This home page shows links that are mostly original to this site. These articles and images may be used with permission of Susan or the other author(s).
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
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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
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Spreadsheets
Meat Goat Budget
2011 UME Meat Goat Ration Evaluator .XLSX | .XLS
RationMixer
Ration Evaluator
Sheep Budget
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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
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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














