IN THIS ISSUE:

• Coughing Goats
• GoatCamp™ 2013
• Worms and Refugia

GOAT CAMP™ 2013

Come join us at Onion Creek Ranch north of Brady, Texas for the week of Oct 21-25, 2013 for an all breed educational event designed with all types of meat goat producers in mind with focus on commercial production. Learn about:

• Breeding, Kidding, Kid care
• Tubing, injections
• Nutrition, Balancing and formulating rations
• Hoof trimming, hoof care
• Necropsy
• Tattooing, ear tagging
• Diseases affecting goats
• Drawing blood, disease testing
• FAMACHA training, reading fecals
• Selecting goats for breeding, market sales, etc
• Marketing your animals
• Routine handling, restraints
• Humane slaughter demonstration
• Private Property rights
• 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
• KENT MILLS, HI PRO FEEDS - NUTRITIONIST
• JIM BOB HARRIS, PRESIDENT, TEXAS VET LAB INC., San Angelo, TX
• DAN BYFIELD, AMERICAN LAND FOUNDATION - PROPERTY RIGHTS & LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
• BOB GLASS, PAN AMERICAN VET LABORATORY - SERUM DIAGNOSTICS
• SUZANNE GASPAROTTO, ONION CREEK RANCH
• PAT COTTEN, BENDING TREE RANCH
• LOU NUTI, PhD REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY, PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY

* The GoatCamp™2013 Intern Program is now accepting applications for a limited number of Interns; interns receive free tuition in exchange for helping with the work at GoatCamp™. If you are interested please send your resume to onioncreek@tennesseemeatgoats.com. We'd like to know a little bit about your experience with goats (or lack thereof) and why you'd like to become an Intern. Persons with no experience with goats are encouraged to attend as paying students; much of the work of an Intern has to do with the operation of GoatCamp™ and not directly with goats.

* GoatCamp™2013 is limited to 25 students. * Classroom instruction alternating with hands-on work with Onion Creek Ranch goats

TUITION PER STUDENT - $350.00

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

For additional information, contact Suzanne Gasparotto 325-344-5775 or email her at onioncreek@tennesseemeatgoats.com

Some photos below of previous years at GoatCamp™

Kent Mills, Nutritionist, HiPro Feeds,
in OCR pasture identifying plants with 'Campers