Production Topics:

Part One

Saturday Morning:

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Herd Data - Why?

Collection - How?

Analysis - Now What?

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Buck Testing - Why?

Buck Selection

Replacement Does

Refining the Kid Crop

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Feeding ‘EM Cheap

Keeping “EM Healthy

Hands on Look at Goats

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How To Tell its Working

Marketing Your Results

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Sustainable Forage Based Production

      -What Does it Mean?

      -How to Make it Work?

      -Planting & Supplements

      -Is it Really Better?

Researchers, Breeders, and Buyers will come together to share research, experiences, questions, and challenges regarding all of the topics.

Next Level Speakers on Goat Production:

Dr. John Walker

Professor and Resident Director of Research

Texas A&M AgriLife

Research and Extension Center

Texas A&M University San Angelo

Articles ~ Videos ~ Goat Production Support

Dr. Walker is a Professor and Resident Director of Research at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center in San Angelo, Texas. His responsibilities include providing leadership to a multi-disciplinary team of six scientists that develop new technologies for increasing the efficiency and sustainability of range livestock and wildlife production. His research interest relates to developing new technologies for modifying diet selection of grazing ruminants. He is also interested in directly modifying the grazing habits of livestock through selective breeding, nutritional interventions and learning. 

(325) 653-4576 ~ â€‹jwalker@ag.tamu.edu

Production Topics:

Part Two

Saturday Afternoon:

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2 Hour Breeders' & Speakers

Round Table

     -In Depth Discussions

     -Issues of the Day

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Working Dog Demo

     -Moving Goats

     -Gathering Goats

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Protecting the Herd on the Range

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Let’s see how the Clucks do it with 1,200 goats!

Researchers, Breeders, and Buyers will come together to share research, experiences, questions, and challenges regarding all of the topics.

Join the Spanish Goat Association,Speakers and Breeders for an Event to Remember with Spanish Goats!

Donna Askew

828-329-5350

Spanish Goat Gathering

PO BOX 1527 ~ Flat Rock, NC 28731

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