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Feeder Loan Guarantee Program Webinar with Joe Kuhar, FAA General Manager
Alberta Breeder Finance Inc. (ABFI) Program Webinar with Shelby Thue, FAA Program Support
Western Cash Advance Payments Program (WeCAP) Webinar Joe Kuhar, FAA General Manager
Fine tuning your vitamin and mineral program with Dan Morrical, Production Expert, Premier 1 Sheep Supplies
Seeding Down Forage Stands - Get off on the right foot with Grant Lastiwka
Sheepbytes Ration Balancer Workshop: Introduction and Overview
Sponsored by: Alberta Lamb Producers and Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board
Sheepbytes Ration Balancer Workshop: Using Student Accounts for Practice Session
Sponsored by: Alberta Lamb Producers and Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board
Parasite Management is not just Deworming with Dr. Lynn Tait
Annual Grazing for Sheep with Graeme Finn
Iceberg diseases - infectious diseases that keep adult sheep from performing as they should with Dr. Paula Menzies
Feeding Replacement Ewes and Feeding Late Gestation Ewes with Dr. Paul Luimes, College Research Professor, Coordinator of Ag. Diploma Program, University of Guelph
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 6:30pm
Presentation is 1.5 hours, with a Q & A built in.
- Feeding Replacement Ewes – building ewes that can produce lambs successfully for the long-term is economically important. This part of the presentation will explain the principles of preparing the ewe (rumen development, mammary develop and frame development) to build the ewe effectively.
- Feeding Late Gestation Ewes – the last trimester of pregnancy puts significant demands on a pregnant ewe – feeding her correctly not only impacts her productivity after lambing but also lamb and even her survival.
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Implications of genetics/genomics: what lessons can Alberta Sheep Producers learn from other industries, with Ghader Manafiazar, University of Alberta, Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences (AFNS), Post-Doc
Presenter Bio
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 11am MST
Presentation is 45min, with a 15 min Q & A
Economically important traits such as weaning weight or carcass yield are mainly controlled by genetic and management (environment). Genetic could account for about 60% of phenotypic variation in some of the economically important traits. Other livestock industries such as dairy or beef cattle are successfully implemented genetic technology and sustainably increased their animal performance. For example, beef industry made a 12% gain on average of 205-d adjusted weaning weight over 12 years (from 575 Ib in 1996 to 639 Ib in 2008) due to improvement in genetics and management. Genetic/genomic technology could be used for different objectives including generating estimated breeding value to improve flok performance, parentage assignment to identify sire of a lamb in a multiple sire system, replacement ewe selection as early as they born, disease detection, etc. In this webinar, Dr. Ghader Manafiazar, assistant professor at Dalhousie University, will introduce the basic concept of genetics/genomics and will go through the main implications of this technology in other livestock industries and finally what are the opportunities available for the sheep industry.
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Webinar by Dr John Gilleard BVSc,PhD, DipACVM, MRCVS, Professor, Parasitology - Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 7pm MST
Presentation is 45min, with a 15 min Q & A
More details to follow