Web-based Training and Certification Program for Meat Goat Producers

Table of Contents

1. General Overview (Do you want to be a goat producer?)
   • Linda Coffey
2. Introduction to a Meat Goat Quality Assurance Program and HACCP
   • Roger Merkel
3. Meat Goat Management
   • Robert Swize
4. Goat Facilities
   • Marvin Shurley
5. Goat Herd Health I - Procedures and Prevention
   • Lionel Dawson, James Allen, and Bruce Olcott
6. Goat Herd Heath II - Common Diseases
   • Bruce Olcott, Lionel Dawson and James Allen
7. Internal & External Parasites of Goats
   • Jim Miller
8. Biosecurity for Meat Goat Producers
   • Bruce Olcott
9. Marketing Slaughter Goats and Goat Meat
   • Tatiana Stanton
10. Introduction to Goat Nutrition
    • Steve Hart
11. Pastures for Goats
    • Jean-Marie Luginbuhl
12. Goat Farm Budgeting
    • Roger Sahs and Damona Doye
13. Legal Issues
    • William W. Wheeler, Jr. and Sheri L. Mueller
14. Goat Reproduction
    • Stephan Wildeus
15. Genetic Improvement and Crossbreeding in Meat Goats
    • Will Getz
16. Predator Control
    • Ken Cearley
17. Vegetation Management
    • Steve Hart
18. Farm Business Planning
    • Marion Simon
19. Livestock Guarding Dogs
    • Dan and Paula Lane
20. Disaster Preparedness for Livestock
    • Derial Bivens
21. Organic Meat Goat Production
    • Roger Merkel
22. Reproductive Technologies
    • Teresa Wade

• Contacts
  • Tilahun Sahlu