The 4S Goat Expo and the Nebraska Sheep and Goat Producers annual meeting seminar has combined for a small-ruminant educational program that will be held Sept. 24-25 at the Lincoln County fairgrounds in North Platte.
Activities include seminars on productive profitable goat management, goat nutrition and management, sheep production and management, selection for wool in a sheep breeding program, herd health for sheep producers, and many more topics.
Hands-on activities include Famacha training, sheep health assessment, hall of sheep breeds, a Certified Boer Goat Show, 4S Goat Show and sale.
Speakers include Rob Zelinsky, small-ruminant nutritionist with Hubbard Feed; Sue Hobby, Boers by Hobby Goat Farm; Lisa Surber, LM Livestock Services; Randy Saner, Nebraska Extension educator; and others.
For more information or to sign up, contact Saner at 308-532-2683 or Melissa Nicholson at 308-386-8378.
The seminars will cover numerous topics of interest to sheep and goat producers.
