Seminar Information
This Seminar if FREE
Showstopper Seminar Guest Speakers
Complete Wether Goat Program -
Selection, feeding, exercising, fitting, and
showing. This will be a 3 hour session.
Scott Mauney - Scott is the Texas
Extension Agent for Palo Pinto County in
Texas. Students under Scott’s tutelage have
consistently been class winners, had class
placings, and Championships in the major
Stock shows and in Jackpot shows throughout
Texas.
Hoof trimming
- From normal
everyday maintenance to corrective hoof
trimming.
John Edwards - John was a horse
farrier, before goats! He was a track
certified farrier at two different race
tracks. He is the HEAD hoof trimmer at
EGGS!!
Show Trimming & Fitting -
How
to trim your does and bucks for the show
ring. There will be a session on does and
another session on bucks.
Johnnie Ford
- Johnnie owns and
operates Double Hill Farms Boer goats. She
is a RETIRED professional fitter! Johnnie
has a VHS tapes and DVDs on trimming Boer
Goats available from Backfence Videos. She
will also have some available with her for
purchase at the Seminar.
Marketing -
Where the
demand is for goat meat and meat goats. How
goat meat is marketed and ways to capitalize
on these markets. What the future looks like
for goats.
Dr. Rick Machen - Dr. Machen is the
Texas Extension Agent for Uvalde County in
Texas. Rick has worked for Texas A & M
Extension service for 16 years. His official
title is Professor and Livestock Specialist
with
Responsibilities for goat, sheep, and beef
cattle programs with an added emphasis on
Youth.
Photography Workshop -
How to
set-up and pose animals for
pictures. How to change backgrounds
and erase lead chains, etc.
Luke Vickrey - Luke has his degree in
Photojournalism. He has been the
photographer at the ABGA Nationals for 3
years and at the IBGA Nationals for 2 years.
Luke operates a Boer goat semen Sales
company, The Goat Factory, and his breeding
farm is Outlaw Boer Goats. He is from Markle,
Indiana.
Ultrasound Pregnancy Detection
- an overview of ultrasound pregnancy
detection and the importance of using it.
All pregnant goats in the Showstopper Sale
will be used to demonstrate on.
Nutrition and Parasite Control -
Goats nutritional requirements will be
addressed. The nutritional requirements of
commercial meat goats through show goats
will be discussed.
Dr. Rick Machen - He holds a
Doctorate in Ruminant Nutrition. In his job
with the Extension Service, he specializes
in goats. Dr. Machen is the only speaker I
know who can teach about by-pass proteins
and keep you on the edge of your seat!!
Basic Reproduction -
Reproductive anatomy and physiology. Hormone
interaction in goats from pre-conception to
birth.
John Edwards - Owner and operator of
EGGS. John performed his first embryo flush
on cattle in 1979. He has collected embryos
cattle, sheep, goats, and horses. He
collects and freezes semen on all of these
species, also. John conducts several
artificial insemination schools
each year.
The Seminar is
free of charge. It will be
featured on DV Auction so it can be viewed
and participated in on-line as it happens.
The Seminar will begin at 9 am. On Friday,
August 10 at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in
West Monroe, La.
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