UC Davis Small Ruminant Research & Veterinary Extension

08/26/2024

Our visiting S.T.A.R. summer research student, Manon Hamdani, from Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT) presented her project on Johne's disease diagnostics in goats at a recent conference in Minneapolis, MN. We are so proud of Manon and the work that she accomplished this summer!

08/13/2024

This is just the beginning! But it’s a great start! So excited to announce we have published:

Cross-Sectional Study Assessing Management Practices and Udder Health in California Sheep Flocks and Seroprevalence of Small Ruminant Lentivirus

08/02/2024

Control and management of internal parasites is a major health challenge on sheep and goat farms AND dewormers just don’t work like they used to. If this sounds relatable and you’re in San Joaquin County and Stanislaus County region, join us on August 19th. We will learn integrated management practices and practice skills necessary for FAMACHA certification to help us use dewormers strategically when they’re needed.

07/31/2024

Going to the annual convention? Join me in the morning on Wednesday, August 7th for a Secure Sheep & Wool Supply Planning Workshop.

Hearing about H5N1 outbreaks in dairy cattle across the US? What about Vesicular Stomatitis last year in California? Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus in Greece? Foot and mouth disease? These are highly contagious viral diseases that can affect sheep and other livestock threatening our Nation’s food supply and your livelihood. Controlling the spread of these foreign animal disease outbreaks will involve stopping animal and animal product movement for a period of time. Once movements are restarted, producers will require special permits from the California Department of Food and Agriculture for animal movement.

The Secure Sheep and Wool Supply (SSWS) Plan if approved by CDFA’s Secure Food Supply (SFS) Program is designed to support disease control for infected farms and allow business operations that are unaffected by the disease (i.e. negative for the disease) but located within a quarantine Control Area to continue some business operations to maintain economic viability. The program is voluntary EXCEPT during an animal disease outbreak when producers must adhere to the all the Program requirements to receive a product or animal movement permit. During this workshop we will focus on specific CDFA SFS Program requirements to help you prepare now BEFORE an outbreak.

07/12/2024

Looking for more dairy goat milk quality resources?
Look no further! Just in time for the national show .srrve and the ISU Dairy Extension team are excited to share the Dairy Goat Extension & Education website! Here you’ll find training videos, templates for digital records, and (of course) all episodes of season 1 of the Baas and Bleats podcast!
Check it out and tell a friend! www.dairygoatextension.org
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07/03/2024

Summer research projects are underway with our amazing students in the, apply named, UCD SRRVE lab! We are here to serve you while passionate in developing new young minds eager to contribute to our foundation of knowledge for small ruminant herd health and production.

04/21/2024

In honor of Earth Day we harvest a beautiful fiber that is naturally durable, flame resistant, moisture absorbing, biodegradable, and grows back every year with some sun and water on soils that produce feed for our sheep to turn into WOOL 🐏🐑 Happy Earth Day

04/11/2024

Professional development, extension, what ever you want to call it, is the most rewarding part of what we do! Today we worked with the Antimicrobial Use & Stewardship team from CDFA to refresh their sample collection skills before they help USDA collect samples for the 2024 NAHMS Sheep Study this summer.

The sheep benefits from an industry wide study once every ten years or so. The last sheep study in 2011 did not include sampling sheep to detect disease causing pathogens. Don’t miss out on this opportunity. If you own sheep in California and participated in Phase 1 of the study and want to participate in phase 2 even though you previously declined OR you never got the chance to join the study but want to DM me and I will help you connect with the study lead, Dr. Natalie Urie, to get you enrolled.

Thanks for considering representing the sheep industry in this effort to bring awareness and understanding to important health and production issues.

04/04/2024

We did some fun learning today! 🌾 Made possible because of the amazing interpretation by Ada Ruelas. Thank you to for inviting us to discuss rumen function and rumen health in a variety of grazing scenarios!

03/08/2024

Register for this free webinar. You know what a good rain year means, right? A potential for lots of fire fuel. The time to plan for wildfire season is before it starts.

02/27/2024

The next series of the GoatMT webinars will be on goat health and dairy goats. Roselle Busch, DVM with UC Davis Veterinary Medicine will talk about goat health on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 7 PM MST. Kellie Kahtani with Montana State University Extension will talk about dairy goats on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7 PM MST.

Webinars are FREE and all are welcome!

Register by going to https://montana.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a5lIeKaZ8kOdUbk.

Webinars brought to you by GoatMT, USDA-NIFA, Bar 88 Consulting & Livestock, and Montana State University Extension. GoatMT is funding provided by USDA-NIFA Beginning Farmer Rancher Development Program.

01/29/2024

Focused on the value of the biological testing that will be included in the Sheep 2024 study and includes industry representatives and a laboratory collabora...

12/27/2023

Check out these informative webinars and follow the link for more information.

https://livestock.extension.wisc.edu/programs/small-ruminant-webinar-series/

12/10/2023

AASRP WEBINAR: Chronic Diarrhea in Goats - Case Based Discussion
Speaker: Dr. Ailbhe King
Thursday, December 21, 2023, 11:00am-12:00pm Central Time

Register now at aasrp.org

12/08/2023

Join us this winter!!

12/01/2023

This is truly an incredible opportunity!

Check out this one of a kind opportunity to spend the lambing season at the US Sheep Experiment Station this coming spring!

11/03/2023

Reminder: tomorrow is Goat Day at UC Davis. If you are still interested in coming and have not yet registered, no worries, we will have on site registration (cash or check). https://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/events/goat-day

10/27/2023

Join us for Goat Day at UC Davis! Earlier this year to accommodate busy January pre-kidding schedules. Check out some of the research updates and amazing wet lab opportunities. Registration link in bio.

10/25/2023

We would love to see all our California goat producers at 2023 UC Davis Goat Day!

UC Davis Goat Day - "The Value of Diagnostics" November 4, 2023, UC Davis Giedt Hall Online Registration & Information: https://registration.ucdavis.edu/Item/Details/1073

10/25/2023

Did you know that up to 50% of pre-weaning lamb and kid mortality occurs in the first 2 days after birth? If you are a member of AASRP don’t miss out on this webinar. We will cover common reasons for neonatal mortality and practical methods to help our clients minimize these losses.

10/10/2023

Very much looking forward to this upcoming event. If you’re in Siskiyou County, please consider joining us!

08/28/2022

This Sheep Shuttle (a ewe-ber of sorts 😜) has taken our team to many great places in the past two weeks! Santa Maria to Hopland and even over to Minden, NV. Austin Brown is well deserving of his scholarship award from the CWGA! Congratulations! As much as we loved the Sheep Shuttle, maybe next time we could drive something with 4 wheel drive?? 😅😂

07/24/2022

Beautiful animals, breathtaking views, fantastic conversations. So grateful!

07/12/2022

After an amazing day of pulling blood samples from sheep for 9 hours, today seems like quit the opposite 😊 sometimes it’s a good change to sit with your thoughts in a quiet lab all day. So beyond excited and appreciative to all those who express an interest in our research with sheep and goats!

05/19/2022

It was a beautiful morning counting sheep (fetuses) with great veterinarians