Farms.com Home   News

Purdue Extension's Lambing School To Provide Birth-Management Training

Sheep and goat producers at any level of expertise are invited to learn more about the critical production phases of late gestation, lactation and care of newborns at Purdue Extension's annual Lambing School on Feb. 14.

The workshop, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., will focus on lambing and kidding procedures and factors that influence birth success, such as nutrition, reproduction, health considerations, lambing facilities and necessary management practices. It will be at Purdue University's Animal Sciences Research and Education Center Sheep Unit, 5675 W. 600 N, West Lafayette.

Presenters are Mike Neary, Purdue Extension small-ruminant specialist; Gerald Kelly, manager of the Purdue Sheep Unit; and Michael Hill, professor of food animal production medicine in the Purdue College of Veterinary Medicine. Participants will have the opportunity to view and participate in live sheep births.

Registration is $35 per person and is due by Feb. 5. Attendance will be limited to the first 40 registrants. Fees include breakfast, lunch and educational materials.
The workshop brochure and registration form are available on the Purdue Extension sheep website at http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/SH/.

Source:ag.purdue.edu


Trending Video

Introducing the Livestock Guardian Dog to Sheep

Video: Introducing the Livestock Guardian Dog to Sheep

Our eleven month old livestock guardian dog, Sam, has been on the farm about three months and spent the entire time guarding our free-rage meat chickens. Now that we are done with chickens for the year, I needed to find a new job for Sam. In this video I introduce Sam to our sheep flock by first having spend a few days with a single ewe and then bringing the entire flock into his one acre paddock. After some chasing he settled down! I will give an update in a couple weeks once Sam and the flock are moved out to pasture.