This site provides information about research on goat and sheep parasites being done by the Cornell Sheep & Goat Program in cooperation with NY farmers and other land grant universities. It also provides resources to help extension educators train farmers in small ruminant integrated parasite management and helpful links for farmers and youth.
Research covered on this site has been funded by:
- Beckman Fund for Research in Meat Goat Health
- 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
- Northern New York Agricultural Development Program
- The Department of Animal Science at Cornell University
- The USDA Organic Agriculture Research Extension Initiative
This site is authored by:
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. She has a strong background in both dairy and meat goats as herdsperson for commercial and research goat dairies, livestock educator for development projects in the Caribbean and manager of her own meat goat operation. Her research in the NE US has focused on lambing/kidding management, meat goat management, management of goats in woods and brush, and internal parasite control in small ruminants.
Dr. Mike Thonney received his undergraduate degree in Animal Science at Washington State University in 1971, followed by 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.