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Learn how to be proactive in your herd management!

Join us at the once a year GoatCamp™ at Onion Creek Ranch in Texas where you will learn from the experts in hands on as well as classroom instruction.

Taking reservations for GoatCamp™ 2026

Oct 26-29, 2026

FAMACHA training. Doing microscopic fecal counts. Reading fecals.

Learn how to diagnose and treat illnesses and diseases

Nutrition: learn best nutritional practices

Tubing, injections, tattooing, eartagging, handling and restraints

Hoof trimming, hoof care

Necropsy demonstration

Diseases affecting goats

Drawing blood, disease testing

Selecting goats for breeding, market sales

Marketing your animals

Humane slaughter demonstration

Breeding, Kidding, Kid care

Importance of private property rights to goat owners.

...and much more, all on a working goat ranch.

The GOATCAMP™ Instructors

MARK SWENING, DVM - VETERINARIAN, Coleman, Texas Vet Clinic

JAMES MILLER, DVM, LSU - PARASITOLOGIST

SARAH ABATTI, HI PRO FEEDS - NUTRITIONIST

BOB GLASS, PAN AMERICAN VET LABORATORY - SERUM DIAGNOSTICS

SUZANNE GASPAROTTO, ONION CREEK RANCH

PAT COTTEN, BENDING TREE RANCH

Classroom Instruction as well as Hands-on Work with Onion Creek Ranch goats on a working goat ranch

TUITION PER STUDENT - $550.00 IF RECEIVED BEFORE 9-30-26

$575.00 IF RECEIVED ON OR AFTER 10-1-26

Registration Form on the GoatCamp™ page at www.tennesseemeatgoats.com

Additional Information or questions: Suzanne Gasparotto - 512-277-0534 (Texas)
or email her at onioncrk@centex.net

GOATCAMP™ TESTIMONIALS:

"Thank you for a wonderful experience this past week at GoatCamp™. I wish I had known about it before purchasing my first goat. I did some things wrong at the beginning but with the knowledge I gained this week, I feel much better about getting my program back in line. All of your speakers were engaging and knowledgeable. It was obvious that you have put significant effort in the program. Everyone on your team was helpful and very polite. Your facility is amazing. The details of how you run your operation and how it is laid out is beyond impressive. My wife is interested in coming down for kidding internship if you have availability. Once you have more details on timeframe, please let me know so I can ensure she gets it on her calendar."
Best Regards,
Jim Roberts Langston Construction Co. of Piedmont, LLC Piedmont, SC 29673

AND

"Just wanted to thank you for the great experience at this year's GoatCamp™. Really appreciate you and Pat Cotten for sharing the immense knowledge you have acquired over a period of 35 yrs. Also please pass on my thanks to Seth,Trisha, Jodi, and Del."
Thanks, Sasanka Veeramachaneni Austin, Texas

Note: This is Sasanka's second attendance at GoatCamp™ in the last 3 years.

Click here for more photos from the very successful 2024 GoatCamp™