Lambing, kidding and calving on pasture webinar offered

Press release

Food Animal Concerns Trust — FACT— is offering a free webinar in which a panel of experienced sheep, goat and cattle producers from National Center for Appropriate Technology — NCAT will discuss how they handle lambing, kidding and calving. Margo Hale, Tracy Mumma, Linda Poole and Linda Coffey will share tips for a successful season:

• What to have on hand, including helpful tools

• How to recognize imminent birth

• How a normal birth proceeds

• When and how to intervene.

This team-taught session will also answer these important questions: What do we do after the birth? How do we select mothers that do the work, so we don’t have to?

Hale, Mumma, Poole and Coffey are all long-time producers of sheep, goats or cattle. They are all NCAT livestock and grazing specialists who have been writing and teaching about livestock for decades. 

The webinar will take place Jan. 13 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CST.

People can register online at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8YScGmqWTxqRtR

pdOfpbvg to receive a link to the Zoom session.

Attendees will receive relevant resources from NCAT’s ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program in a follow-up email.

People with questions can contact Larissa McKenna at [email protected].

FACT also is accepting applications for its Fund-a-Farmer Grants. Grants of up to $3,000 are available for livestock and poultry producers who are seeking or who already hold humane certification and for projects to improve pasture-based systems. Applications are due Jan. 20.

People can go Online Fund-a-Farmer Grants at https://foodanimalconcernstrust.org/grants