This site provides information about goats and sheep used for milk production in the northeastern United States. Abundant rainfall for forage production and a large population consuming goat and sheep dairy products in the eastern United States makes this area an ideal location for small ruminant dairy farming.
This site is funded by:
- Federal Capacity Funds for Cooperative Extension from Cornell University
- Federal Capacity Funds for Research (Hatch funds) from Cornell University
- Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grants
- The Department of Animal Science at Cornell University
This site is authored by:
Mike Thonney received his undergraduate degree in Animal Science at Washington State University in 1971, followed my MS and PhD degrees in nutrition at the University of Minnesota before joining the Department of Animal Science at Cornell in 1975. He currently teaches about sheep, beef cattle, and meat. His research background includes projects on nutrition as well as growth and development of cattle and sheep, effect of candidate genes on muscle growth and aseasonal breeding in sheep, and vaccination and management of sheep. Currently, he is working with Niko Kochendoerfer on dietary fermentable fiber levels for milking sheep in short, frequent lactations.
Dr. tatiana L. Stanton earned her MS from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and her PhD from Cornell University. She is the primary organizer of the Cornell Goat Program.
Niko Kochendoerfer is earning her Master’s Degree in Animal Science at Cornell University, working with Dr. Michael Thonney. Her research focus is on dairy sheep management and nutrition.