Event Details

Date

January 12 - March 2, 2021

Time

Jan. 12th, Jan. 19th, Jan 26th, and February 2nd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Location

Online Webinar

Cost

$40.00 Farm


Host

Michigan State University Small Ruminant Team
Carla McLachlan
517-432-5402


MSU Birth Management for Sheep and Goats 2021 Online

January 12 - March 2, 2021

MSU Birth Management for Sheep and Goats 2021 Online

The Michigan State University Small Ruminant Team will be hosting their annual "Birth Management for Sheep and Goats" program virtually this year. It will consist of 4 sessions on Tuesday evenings from 7:00-8:30 pm. Each weekly session will last approximately 90 min and sessions will be recorded to allow future viewing. Each session will feature seminars, specialized instructional videos and question and answer sessions with an expert panel to cover a variety of topics, including nutritional management, use of ultrasound, facility design, newborn care, hypothermia treatment, grafting, vaccination protocols, mortality diagnoses, health and feeding program assessment.

Participants will learn preventative approaches, assessment skills, and treatment procedures. Both novice and veteran producers alike will find this program valuable. Because of the amount and depth of information presented, students have found attending this program more than once to be valuable.

The session dates and topics will be:
Jan 12: "Nutritional management to optimize birth outcomes in sheep and goats."
Jan 19: "Optimizing maternal and newborn health: parasite control, vaccination schedules, treating complications at birth, providing a healthy environment."
Jan 26: "The normal birth process, birth assistance and newborn care."
Feb 2: "Identifying challenges on your farm and creating an improvement plan addressing health management, nutrition and facility improvements."

Registration is $40/farm or family and includes a 40+ page manual, a laminated lamb hypothermia/starvation treatment poster and access to all recorded sessions (additional members of the same farm/ family may receive additional manuals and posters for $20 per set). Contact Carla McLachlan for more details (phone: 517-432-5402; email: MCLACHL2@msu.edu).

Online registration only for this event, and it may be completed at: https://commerce.cashnet.com/msu_3645 Choose the MSU Extension tab. Those that register before Jan 1, 2021 will receive the manual and poster before the sessions begin. Those that register later will receive these items also but likely not before the beginning of the first session.





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