2019 SMALL RUMINANT MANAGEMENT & FIBER CONFERENCE
Cashmere Goat Association and Cornell Sheep & Goat Program
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 10 November
Agenda
Speaker Biosketches/contact info
Sponsors
Saturday morning presentations
- Flock & herd health management – Dr. Mary Smith DVM
Overview Presentation - Skin and foot issues – Dr. Mary Smith DVM
Overview Presentation - Innovations in goat & sheep parasite management – Dr. tatiana Stanton
Presentation w/videos New BFT Grant - Basics of Cashmere, Mohair and Wool Fiber Structure – Wini Labrecque
Presentation Fiber Structure Lecture Video - The Cashmere Goat Association Database & Registry
Presentation Database explanation
Saturday afternoon – hands-on practicals – click on topics
- Evaluating cashmere goats – Wendy Pieh
North America Cashmere Goat grading system Evaluating Cashmere Goats Video - Evaluating sheep – Christian Posbergh – no handouts Soundness and BCS Video Casting a Sheep Video
- Hoof conformation & trimming – Peter Goth – no handouts Goat Trimming Video
- Nutrition (Evaluating hay and interpreting a forage analysis, reading a feed label) – Niko Kochendoerfer
- Kidding & lambing issues– Dr. tatiana Stanton Caring for Weak Newborns: Warming Video Tubing Video IP Injection Video
Sunday morning presentations
- Basic genetics of cashmere production – Dr. Terry Gipson
Overview Presentation - Fiber color genetics in goats & sheep – Dr. Phil Sponenberg
Overview Sheep Presentation Goat Presentation - Effect of nutrition on fiber & follicle development in goats/sheep – Dr. Steve Hart
Presentation - Fiber processing & marketing streams for different sized farms – Mary Jeanne Packer
Presentation After Shearing – Now What? Video
Sunday afternoon – fiber labs and presentations
- Evaluating cashmere fiber – Peter Goth & Wendy Pieh
North America Cashmere Goat grading system
Fiber sorting & grading 101 – Wini Labrecque
Overview Video Walk Through of Different Fleeces Video of Mystery Fiber Workshop - Growing a decentralized textile economy in the Northeast US – Laura Sansone
Presentation NYS Regional Yarn Sourcebook Farm Membership Package - An EU Wild Friend Predator Program for Small Ruminants – Dr. Nora Desmond DVM
Presentation w/videos and translated wolf slides – to view videos, download the presentation rather than just viewing it and open it in adobe. Start scrolling through the pages. As you get to each video in the downloaded presentation click on its play button,
PDGFA in cashmere goats: a motivation for the hair follicle stem cells to activate