Producer Links
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Producers
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Blue Ewe Jacobs www.bluewayj.com/Posted at 2:55pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
Bluegrass Babydolls www.bluegrassbabydolls.com/Posted at 2:57pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
Double F Club Lambs www.doublefclublambs.com/Posted at 3:00pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
Jerusalem Ridge Farms www.jerusalemridge.commeat goats and hair sheep in Franklin Co., KY
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KayeDale Acres Icelandic Sheep www.kayedaleacres.com/Purebreed and Registered Icelandic Sheep
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Lazy JV Ranch www.lazyjvranch.com/Posted at 2:54pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
Rising Sun Ranch www.savannagoats.com/index.htmlSavannah goats in Kentucky
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Turner Farms Boer Goats www.turnerfarmsboers.com"Providing Quality from Our Farm to Yours"
Posted at 2:40pm on Mon, Apr 13 2009
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State Associations
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Kentucky Goat Producers Association www.kentuckygpa.comPosted at 1:51pm on Tue, Aug 19 2008 -
Kentucky Sheep and Wool Producers Association www.kswpa.comPosted at 10:54am on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
Kentucky Club Lamb Association lambsalepage.com/kcla/index.htmlPosted at 3:02pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009
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National Associations
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American Sheep Industry Association www.sheepusa.orgYour industry advocate since 1865
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American Meat Goat Association www.meatgoats.comPosted at 11:08am on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
American Dairy Goat Association www.adga.orgPosted at 11:09am on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
United Horned Hair Sheep Association, Inc. www.unitedhornedhairsheepassociation.org/index.htmlThe United Horned Hair Sheep Association, Inc. represents Painted Desert Sheep, Texas Dall Sheep, Black Hawaiian Sheep, Corsican Sheep, Desert Sand Sheep, and Mouflon Sheep.
Posted at 8:33am on Wed, Jan 27 2010
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University Web Sites
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University of Kentucky Goat Page www.uky.edu/Ag/AnimalSciences/goats/goatinfo.htmlPosted at 11:12am on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
University of Kentucky Sheep Page www.uky.edu/Ag/AnimalSciences/sheep/sheep.htmlPosted at 11:13am on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
Purdue Sheep and Meat Goat (SIPAC) webpage ag.ansc.purdue.edu/sheepPosted at 12:12pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
Langston University www.luresext.edu/goats/index.htmE (Kika) de la Garza Institute for Goat Research
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Florida A&M www.famu.edu/index.cfm?a=goats&p=GoatsandSheepSmall Ruminant Prodram
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University of Illinois www.livestocktrail.uiuc.edu/sheepnet/Illini SheepNet and MeatGoatNet
Posted at 12:24pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009
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Marketing
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Kentucky Market Maker ky.marketmaker.uiuc.edu/An interactive mapping system that locates businesses and markets of agricultural products in Kentucky, providing an important link between producers and consumers.
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Agriculture Marketing Research Center - Goats www.agmrc.org/commodities__products/livestock/goats/Posted at 10:28am on Wed, Apr 08 2009 -
Agricultural Marketing Resource Center -Lamb www.agmrc.org/commodities__products/livestock/lamb/Posted at 10:30am on Wed, Apr 08 2009 -
American Lamb Board www.americanlamb.comPosted at 1:53pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
Blystone Farms www.blystonefarm.com/Located in historic Canal Winchester, OH, Blystone Farm is a family-owned producer of lamb & goat.
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United Producers www.uproducers.com/United Producers, Inc. is a farmer-owned and operated livestock cooperative that provides livestock marketing, financial and hedging services to the agriculture community in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio.
Posted at 9:23am on Mon, Nov 30 2009
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Industry Related Web Sites
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The Southern Consortium for Small Ruminant Parasite Control wormx.org/The mission of the SCSRPC is to develop and validate novel methods for sustainable control of gastrointestinal nematodes in small ruminants and to educate stakeholders in the small ruminant industry on methods and recommendations for gastrointestinal nematode control.
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National Lamb Feeders Association www.nlfa-sheep.org/Posted at 1:54pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service www.attra.ncat.org/livestock.html#HogsPosted at 1:55pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009 -
Wisconsin Extension goatdairylibrary.org/Goat Dairy Library
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KY Soybean Board Animal Ag website kysoy.org/animal_ag/index.htmlOur friends at the KY Soybean Board are taking the lead in creation of a Kentucky Animal Ag Coalition. Track their progress on this site.
Posted at 9:31am on Thu, Apr 02 2009
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Web Resources
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Managing Livestock and Poultry Mortalities www.extension.org/pages/Managing_Livestock_and_Poultry_Mortalities#Mortality disposal is a hot button topic. This is a good overview.
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Sheep Breeds www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/Posted at 2:00pm on Thu, Apr 02 2009 -
Goat Breeds www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/goats/Posted at 2:03pm on Thu, Apr 02 2009 -
Notes on Goats notesongoats.com/index.htmlAn informational website from Dr. Sandra Solaiman, a Professor at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Meat Goat Selection, Carcass Evaluation and Fabrication Guide www.kysheepandgoat.org/Grading%20Guide.pdfLouisiana State University has published the "Meat Goat Selection, Carcass Evaluation and Fabrication Guide" available here in .pdf or downloadable from the LSU website
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Body Condition Scoring in Goats www.uky.edu/Ag/AnimalSciences/goats/presentations/BCS%20pamphlet%20-%20letter.pdfLangston University in Oklahoma has a publication on Body Condition Scoring in Goats which can be found on the University of Kentucky goat web site - this is a direct link
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Body Scoring Ewes and Rams www.livestocktrail.uiuc.edu/uploads/sheepnet/papers/Condition%20Scoring%20Ewes%20and%20Rams.pdfA similar publication to the goat body scoring guidelines for sheep can be found on the Illini SheepNet
Posted at 2:31pm on Mon, Mar 30 2009
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Blogs
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The Shepherds Notebook mdsheepgoat.blogspot.com/blogs maintained by Susan Shoenian, University of Maryland
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The BaaLands baalands.blogspot.com/also from Susan Schoenian
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Black Ram Farm blackramfarm.wordpress.com/Black Ram Farm is a small colored Merino operation in Vermont run by Alexandra (Alex) Garven. Alex is a dedicated blogger and a creative fiber artist and value-added marketer.
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The Farm Gate www.farmgate.uiuc.edu/The Farm Gate is a general agriculture blog from University of Illinois Extension
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The Goatherd www.blystonefarm.blogspot.com/Katherine Harrison, general manager at Blystone Farm, blogs about her family's heritage in agriculture, raising, marketing, and processing lamb & goat with an emphasis on quality.
Posted at 7:09am on Wed, Sep 30 2009
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