2014 Sheep and Goat Health Webinar Series

Get ready for the 2014 Sheep and Goat Health Webinar Series coming soon. Whether you are a newbie or just want a refresher course, this would be for you!

http://www.sheepandgoat.com/programs/2014webinars.html


A five-part webinar series will be held on consecutive Thursday evenings in January and February 2014. All webinars will start at 7:00 p.m. EST and last for one hour. Each webinar will be followed by a one hour question-and-answer period. The lead instructor will be Susan Schoenian, Sheep & Goat Specialist for University of Maryland Extension.
No pre-registration is required for the webinars. The webinars are open to the first 100 people who log in to https://connect.moo.umd.edu/sschoen/. Webinars are conducted via Adobe Connect. Anyone (anywhere) with an Internet connection may participate. A high speed connection is recommended. When logging on, users are ask to give their location, e.g. John Smith Maine.
While pre-registration is not required, interested people are asked subcribe to the webinar listserv. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listserv@listserv.umd.edu. In the body of the message, type subscribe sheepgoatwebinars. The listserv is used to communicate with webinar participates and to notify users of upcoming webinars. You can unsubscribe to the webinar listserv by sending an e-mail message to the same address. In the body of the message, type unsubscribe sheepgoatwebinars.

	Date	Main topic	Sub topics
I.	January 30	Biosecurity	Breeding stock Quarantine Disease management General management Zoonoses
II.	February 6	Preventative Health Management	Vaccinations Hoof care Parasite control
III.	February 13	Diagnosis and treatment of disease	The healthy animal Vital signs Diagnostic procedures Common treatments Use of medicines
IV.	February 20	Common health problems	Parasitic Digestive Reproductive Skin Eye Hoof
V.	February 27	Disease management	Foot rot Scrapie Ovine progressive pneumonia Caprine arthritic encephalitis Caseous lymphadenitis Johne's disease