Our Annual Bandera, Kendall, Kerr, Gillespie and Blanco County Sheep and Goat Field Day will be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. The Field Day will be at the Kerr County AgriLife Extension Office
located at 3655 Hwy 27 in Kerrville. Registration will begin at 4:30 p.m.
The program will kick off at 5:00 p.m.
The FAMACHA program will be discussed at length. FAMACHA is a method to visually identify anemic animals, thus reducing the number of dewormer treatments given, while also maintaining good overall parasitic control. This should hopefully slow the development of resistance to dewormers. FAMACHA was developed in South Africa. To use FAMACHA the color of ocular mucus membranes are observed and compared to a laminated card which has colored illustration of eyes. FAMACHA cards will be available to producers for $10 each.
Three hours C.E.U.s will be given to those in attendance with a pesticide applicators license.
Please contact your local County Extension office for pre-registration.
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