Livestock and Poultry Workshops and Information
Direct to Farmers, Diagnostics - affordable services are now being offered at our veterinary diagnostic lab in Durham
Watch this livestock video - How to Draw Blood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47tlmqXX3eE
Information on Pigs/Swine
About the Cuts fact sheet on how much meat comes from a 250 lb. (live weight) whole pig.
Swine Nutrition fact sheet
Information on Chickens
If you and your family are thinking of keeping chickens in order to have a supply of fresh meat and eggs, check out our new series of fact sheets on small flock poultry management.
Backyard Homesteading Chicken Processing Workshop
Saturday, June 16, 2012 (Two classes: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM or 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM) at a farm in Chichester (directions given in a follow-up letter at the end of May, after you register).
Cost: $50.00 (the cost of one live chicken) (couples may share a chicken or each pay for a chicken). Pre-registration - online - and a $35 non-refundable deposit is required as space is strictly limited. The $15.00 balance is due on the day of the workshop. Youth may participate with written permission of parent or legal guardian. Participants will learn best practices for care and processing of chickens for the backyard or small farm. The workshop will be operating under an approved protocol from the UNH Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. If you have questions, please call Merrimack County Extension at 796-2151 or email: merrimack.agext@unh.edu. For a flyer of this event, click HERE.
To register for this event go to: https://www.events.unh.edu/RegistrationForm.pm?event_id=10148
Check out Biosecurity for Birds
Information on Goats
For Goat information, check out these Goat Resources. Look on the right side of the page and check out the many instructional Goat Videos available on their site. Also, we have goat fact sheets here at our Merrimack County office and Dot Perkins has a vast knowledge of goats and livestock. You can call our office at 796-2151 or email Dot at dorothy.perkins@unh.edu.
Check out: An Illustrated Guide to Sheep and Goat Production and this guide
to Goat Hoof trimming.
Why Goat Milk? by George F.W. Haenlein, Cooperative Extension Dairy Specialist University of Delaware
Information on Sheep
Check out our informational page on raising sheep.
List of 2011 New Hampshire Veterinarians (Mixed and Large Species).
Pasture Management
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension offers a wonderful, free, on-line course
about pasture management. Go to: http://www.umaine.edu/umext/pasture.
UNH Cooperative Extension programs and policies are consistent with pertinent Federal and State laws and regulations on non-discrimination regarding age, color, handicap, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veterans status.
