Posts Tagged: Sheep
2024 NAHMS Sheep Study
Later this month, the USDA's National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) will kick off...
Sheep Moths Draw Attention at Bohart Museum of Entomology Open House
Unless you're an entomologist, moth enthusiast, or an avid follower of National Moth...
The late Mike Smith, a 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran who retired in Folsom, looks over his collection. The sheep moths he collected are now in the Bohart Museum. He passed in 2003. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's lepidoptera collection)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, chats with Sacramento residents Skylan Potter, 11, and her mother, Camille Potter, holding son, Kehlan. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, explains moth specimens to Katie Dietrich and her son, Andrew, of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's lepidoptera collection, shows moths to Andrew Dietrich of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas, and scientist Sophia Acker of the Del Castillo lab, UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology, display a drawer of sheep moths, Hemileuca eglanterina. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Buying Livestock Drugs in California
A livestock producer recently contacted UCCE regarding a problem he was having getting livestock...
Opportunity to Support the US Sheep Shearing Team at the Golden Shears World Championships
Support the American Shearing Team
Producers looking to support the American team headed to the Golden Shears World Championships next month in Scotland can do so by purchasing a Team USA T-shirt or hoodie offered through American Hero Clothing.
The T-shirt sells for $30 and the hoodie for $60. A portion of the proceeds will support travel expenses for the American team.
Click Here to buy the T-shirt.
Click Hereto buy the Hoodie.
Source: American Sheep Shearers Council
UCCE Week-Long Sheep Shearing School is Back in 2023!!!
After two years of Covid restrictions, I'm happy to say that I'll be doing our very popular week-long shearing school. The dates are March 20th through 24th, 2023. It will be located once again at the Twinning Barn near Ukiah.
We will limit the class size to 28 students and we will have 5 instructors including me. The cost is $850 and is not refundable for partial participation. California residents will receive priority and local Mendocino and Lake County students can apply for a scholarship to reduce the cost of enrollment. Scholarships are awarded only after a student completes the course.
As we've done in the past, we ask folks to fill out the interest survey here https://surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.cfm?surveynumber=39994. Make sure you complete the survey immediately if you haven't done so in the past.
We will provide instructions on how and when to register on-line with a credit card
(Visa or Mastercard) only to those on the interest survey list. It is a separate survey.
With the exceptions already noted here, when registration opens on-line it will be a first come first in for the 28 slots. If you are on our interest list from years past and have never gotten in, please write an email to me, John Harper, jmharper@ucanr.edu and describe why you want to take the course. In past years the on-line class has filled in under 2 minutes.
We will take a few extras on the registration as alternates to be contacted if successful registrants' have to cancel before the first week prior to the school
.