Raising Meat Goats and the FAMACHA System

Erica Fearn raises boer meat goats on pasture at her farm in West Suffield, CT. As a former Executive Director of the Connecticut Farm Bureau, Erica has a great deal of knowledge about the rules and regulations of raising and selling meat animals. She will also talk about her efforts in marketing to ethnic markets and health and nutrition issues for goats.

This workshop will include a special training in the FAMACHA program, a way of measuring anemia and blood loss in goats to better treat animals for worms based on their individual conditions. This training will be offered by Joyce Meader, a Dairy/Livestock Educator with the Cooperative Extension System of the University of Connecticut, and will require pre-registration and an additional $12 fee for materials. Please contact winton@nofamass.org (413-634-5728) to register by July 15.

The farm is at 685 North Stone St., in West Suffield, 1.3 miles from the MA line, next to The Notch. The driveway is between two blue spruce trees, across from Oak St.

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