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Older presentations on this page require a PowerPoint viewer, available free from Microsoft. To reduce the size of the files, the presentations were compressed with NXPowerLite. PowerPoint 2007 presentations are available for viewing and downloading at SlideShare.com. On this page, presentations are listed alphabetically according to subject category: breeding and genetics, general, health, internal parasites, nutrition and feeding, management, marketing and economics, targeted grazing, and wool. Users should feel free to use or adapt these presentations for their own use.

All of Susan's presentations at SlideShare.com

Breeding and genetics

[SlideShare] Breeding better sheep (2010)
[SlideShare] Developing a meat goat performance testing program
Genetic improvement through central buck testing (757 k)
Genetics 101 (1.4 mb)
Pasture-based meat goat performance test in Maryland (1.3 mb)

General

[SlideShare] Intro to Small Ruminant Enterprises | PDF
[SlideShare] Income opportunities with sheep and goats | PDF
[SlideShare] Keys to a viable commercial meat goat industry

Health

Assessing the health of sheep and goats (1.7 mb)
Fecal egg analysis (1.2 mb)
[SlideShare] Goat hoof health and management (2011) | PDF
[SlideShare] Nutritional Disorders (2012) | PDF new
Scrapie FAQ's
Sheep and goat health (3.5 mb)
[SlideShare] Sheep hoof health and management (2011) | PDF
[SlideShare] Small ruminant health | PDF
[SlideShare] Vaccinations (2011)

Internal parasites

Integrated parasite management (1.4 mb)
[SlideShare] Characterizing the Parasite challenge... (2011)
[SlideShare] Integrated parasite management in sheep (2012)| PDF
[SlideShare] Integrated parasite managment
[Slideshare] Livestock parasitology
[Slideshare] Parasite control in sheep (2010)
[SlideShare] Susan's 10 commandments for worm control
[Slideshare] Worm webinar: Anthelmintics (2011)
[Slideshare] Worm webinar: Integrated parasite management (2011)
[Slideshare] Worm webinar: Parasite biology (2011)
[Slideshare] Worm webinar: Worm diagnostics (2011)

Nutrition and feeding

[Slideshare] Digestive physiology (2012) | PDF new
Feeding the pregnant and lactating female (1.4 mb)
Life cycle feeding of sheep and goats (944 k)
[SlideShare] Nutritional managment (2012) | PDF
[Slideshare] Nutrients Part 1 | Nutrients Part 2 new
Nutrient requirements of sheep and goats (700 k)
Nutrition of the ewe and her lambs (1.3 mb)
[SlideShare] Nutrition of the ewe and her lamb
[SlideShare] Pasture vs. pen-fed goats (2012) new
[SlideShare] Sheep and goats: a weapon against weeds
[PDF] Small ruminant nutrition

Management

General goat health and husbandry (1.2 mb)
[SlideShare] Grassfed or not (2009)
[SlideShare] Getting ready for lambing and kidding (2009)[SlideShare] Getting ready for lambing and kidding (2011)
Goat management basics (1.6 mb)
[Slideshare] Late gestation: preparing for lambing (2012) | PDF new
[Slideshare] Late Gestation (2011)
[Slideshare] Neonatal Care (2011)
Preparing for lambing and kidding (920 k)
Problems encountered at lambing and kidding (1 mb)
[Slideshare] Parturition (2011)
[SlideShare] Sheep and goats: a weapon against weeds
[SlideShare] Teeth, tags, and a TSE
[SlideShare] Transitioning to organic sheep and goat production (2012) | PDF new

Marketing and economics

How do hair sheep fit the ethnic market? (904 k)
[SlideShare] Making money with sheep and goats
Marketing sheep and goats to the ethnic markets (1.8 mb)
[SlideShare] Mobile slaughter new
[SlideShare] Marketing sheep and goats to the ethnic markets (2008)
[SlideShare] Profitable production and marketing of meat goats and sheep (2011) | PDF new
Working budgets for meat goat and sheep production (980 k)

Targeted grazing

[Slideshare] Goats and sheep: a weapon against weeds
[Slideshare] Targeted grazing: a natural approach to veg. management

Wool

[SlideShare] An introduction to wool judging | PDF


If you have a sheep and/or goat-related PowerPoint presentation that you'd like to contribute to this listing, please contact Susan Schoenian at sschoen@umd.edu.

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