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Meat Goat Home Study
Course

Welcome to the Penn
State Cooperative Extension Meat Goat Home Study Course! Lesson
materials are available any time, although the course is run during
the winter. Simply click on the topic title under each lesson and
you will go directly to the material to read. You may read the
material on screen or print it out for future reference.

The next course is
scheduled to begin on February 4, 2009. Click here for more
information about the course. To sign up for the course,
complete the registration
form and mail to the Penn State Cooperative Extension Office in
Bedford County. Registration deadline is January 26,
2009.

Lesson 1: Basic Production
Information

General Overview of Meat Goat
Production

Selecting
Meat Goats

Determining
The Age of an Animal

Tattooing
Goat

Lesson 4:
Health

The
Normal Goat

Foot
Rot

Internal
Parasites

Scrapie

Castration

Miscellaneous
Health Issues

Disbudding
Young Kids

Lesson 2:
Reproduction

Body
Condition Scoring

Billy
Soundness

Flushing
Nannies

Breeding
and Kidding Management

The
Process of Kidding

Lesson 5:
Marketing

What Is A Marketing Plan and
How Do I Develop One?

Marketing
Meat Animals Directly to Consumers

Goat
and Lamb Holidays

Lesson 3:
Nutrition

Basic Ration
Balancing

Feeding
the Doe

Feeding
the Market Kid

Feeding the Billy

Grazing
Alfalfa

Strategies
for Extending the Grazing Season

Four
Steps to Rotational Grazing

Lesson 6: Financial
Information

Farm
Business Analysis

Enterprise
Budget Analysis

Meat Goat
Production

Course developed
by:
Melanie Barkley,
Bedford County Extension Agent
Linda Spahr, York County Extension
Agent
Greg Strait,
Fulton County Extension Agent

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