Florida Dairy Goat Association
30th Annual Conference and Meeting Registration ~ June 7-8, 2008
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
PLEASE PRINT ALL INFORMATION (Separate line for each name on badge please)
NAME:
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS:
_________________________________________________________________
CITY:
_________________________________ STATE:
E-MAIL:
___________________________________ PHONE: (
FDGA MEMBER: Y____
N ____
______ ZIP: _________
)
_____
HERD NAME: _________________________
PLEASE NOTE: Registration must be postmarked no later than 05/23/08 with information filled out
including Mary Jane Toth cheese making classes you plan to attend, along with whether you plan to
eat lunch Saturday and Sunday. You may register at the door, but NO lunches will be available to
purchase after 05/23/08 and Mary Jane Toth’s classes MUST BE pre-registered. Thank you.
Make checks and/or money orders payable to FDGA
Mail to:
Lynn Noble, Treasurer
P.O. Box 665
Williston, FL 32696
Continued on next page
Complete package (06/07/08-06/08/08)
Includes all conference presentations, workshops, continental breakfast on 06/07 and 06/08, lunch
06/07 and 06/08 and Wine and Cheese Fest on 06/07/08. Please mark below the days you plan to
join us for lunch so we can purchase the correct amount of food.
# of Guests
Pre-registered by
05/23
On-Site Registration
(No Lunch)
Amount
Adults:
$35.00
$45.00
_____ Saturday lunch (no charge with complete package pre-registered)
_____ Sunday lunch (no charge with complete package pre-registered)
_______
Second Adult in family:
$20.00
$30.00
_____ Saturday lunch (no charge with complete package pre-registered)
_____ Sunday lunch (no charge with complete package pre-registered)
_______
Youth under 15 old
$ 5.00
$10.00
_____ Saturday lunch (no charge with accompanying adult complete
package pre-registered)
_____ Sunday lunch (no charge with accompany adult complete
package pre-registered)
_______
Vendor Table (includes one (1) lunch) $25.00
_____ Saturday lunch (no charge with vendor table-no charge with
pre-registered)
_______
Note: Additional lunches must be pre-ordered if not paid for in package
_____ Saturday lunch
$10.00
_____ Sunday lunch
$10.00
________
________
Adult: One class only
_____ Without lunch or wine and cheese
________
$20.00
Mary Jane Toth Cheese making classes (no charge with complete package) PLEASE mark classes
below you plan to attend. Thank you
______ 9:30-11:00-Basics of Cheese making
______ 1100-12:30-Soft Cheese (Chevre) French Style Cheese
______ 1:30 – 3:00- Hard Pressed Cheese
______ 3:00 – 4:30- Mozzarella
Total Enclosed:
$_________
Please be sure to get your registration postmarked no later than May 23, 2008 to get the
great discount on the conference package plan.
Registration Name for page 2 ___________________________________________
Continued on next page
JUNE 7, 2008 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
7:30-8:45:
Registration
8:45-9:15:
Welcome and Overview – Jack Gaskin, DVM
9:30-11:00:
Room A – Homeopathy – Lucie York
9:30-10:15:
Room B – Pregnancy Toxemia/Ketosis – Traci Kruger, DVM
9:30-10:15:
Room C – DHIR Tester Class – Joe Pietrangelo
9:30-11:00:
Equine Auditorium – Basics of Cheesemaking – Mary Jane Toth. Everything you
need to know to get started making cheese. The types of culture needed, tips on
low to make cheese on a shoestring budge and basic equipment to get started.
10:15 –11:00:
Room B – Lakeland Feed – nutrition for goats – Bob Simon
11:00-12:30:
Equine Auditorium – Soft Cheese (Chevre) French Style Cheese – Mary Jane Toth.
: This cheese has a multitude of uses including delicious cheese balls to dips,
spreads and cheesecake. Generous samples at end of class.
11:15-12:00:
Room A – Selling Milk under a commercial license – Pete Kennedy
11:15-12:00:
Room B – A Matter of Survival – sustainability of goats in Afghanistan- Lockie
Gary
12:30-1:30:
Lunch in livestock pavilion – Sonny’s Barbecue
1:30 – 2:15:
Room A – Practical Herd Health – Dr. Ray Mobley and Dr. Thomas Peterson,
Florida A & M University
1:30 – 2:15:
Room B – Website Design and Information – Coni Perry
1:30 – 3:00:
Equine Auditorium – Hard Pressed Cheese – Mary Jane Toth - Class will show you
the equipment needed. You will be looking at least one type of hard-pressed
cheese so you can see the process of cooking the curds, what they look like and
how they should feel.
2:30 – 3:15:
Room A – Florida Forages – Bob Simon – Lakeland Feed
2:30 – 3:15:
Room B – How to fill out ADGA paperwork correctly – Joanne Jackson
3:00 – 4:30:
Equine Auditorium – Mozzarella – Mary Jane Toth - You will see the mozzarella
made from start to finish. Stretching the curds is fun, easy and requires no
pressing.
3:30 – 4:15:
Room A – Hemorrhagic diarrhea in goats – Jack Gaskin, DVM
4:30 – 5:30:
Room A – Annual Florida Dairy Goat Association meeting
5:30 – 6:30:
Room A – Raffle
6:30 – on:
Wine and Cheese Fest – Please bring your cheese to share with all.
Continued on next page
JUNE 8, 2008 WORKSHOP PROGRAM
10:00-10:30:
Milking demonstration – Regina Briskey
10:30-11:00:
Goat Packing Equipment and demonstration – Jan Meister
11:00-11:45:
Goat carting and training – Elise Anderson
12:00-1:00:
Lunch and visiting
1:00-2:00:
Hoof trimming, disbudding, castration, dehorning with bands
2:00-3:00:
IM and Subq injections. How to draw your own blood.
3:00-on
Clean-up and go home.
DIRECTIONS TO UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
2015 SW 16TH AVENUE
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA 32610
From I-75: Take exit #384 at Archer Road intersection. Heading northeast, continue on Archer Road
until it forks at SW 16th Avenue traffic light (becomes SW 16th Avenue), bear to your right. Turn
right at the next traffic light (Shealy Drive). The UF Veterinary School will be on your left and Cecil
Webb Pavilion will be on your right. *Landmarks at Exit #384 are McDonalds on your left and Burger
King on your right when you turn onto Archer Road. At the Cecil Webb Livestock Pavilion landmark
is a fire station at the fork in the road.
PLEASE: Don’t forget to bring raffle items for our table to support our conference. Thanks!!
VOLUNTEERS! You are desperately needed!!! PLEASE HELP!!
Every year there are a “FEW DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS” who work the registration table, raffle table, FDGA
Country Store, setup on Friday night, cleanup on Sunday, etc. They miss the conference every year! Please look
over the program and see if you can spare 1/2 hour, 1 hour or more during the conference to assist on these
positions so that hopefully EVERYONE can enjoy the conference.
Registration Table Onsite:
Registration Table Pre-registered:
Raffle Table:
Country Store:
7:45-8:45 – need 2 volunteers
7:45-8:45- need 1 volunteer
8:45-4:30- need numerous volunteers
8:45-4:30- need numerous volunteers
Continued on next page
SPEAKER BIOS:
JUNE 7, 2008
Keynote speaker: Mary Jane Toth, Coleman, Michigan- well known for her cheese making
classes and author of “Caprine Cooking”, “Goats Produce Too”, and “The Udder Real
Thing”.
I grew up in a rural area, my grandfather had a dairy farm. I used to love to play in the barn and sit
on the cows while he milked them. So when we made the move in 1982 to my husband’s old family
farm it was only natural to have a mini dairy of my own. Like everyone who gets a couple of milking
animals, it doesn’t take long to realize that you can’t possibly drink all that they produce. So began
my cheese-making ventures. I ordered some cheese-making books and set out to make every
variety I could think of. I had a lot of failures with those early books, even after carefully following
the directions. After several failed attempts, I knew it was not me, those books just didn’t work. I
did some research and learned all I could about the process of making cheese. I began creating my
own recipes that were tried and true and turned out consistently. Everyone that tried my cheese,
yogurt, fudge, etc. thought it was great! I have my best friend Toni Krause to thank because it was
she who suggested I put my recipes into a book. If not for her, Goats Produce Too might never
have been born. I never dreamed the book would take off as well as it did. I pride myself on the
fact that my book is all my own original material. My recipes are simple, easy to understand and I
give you all the tips I learned to save money using things you probably already have in your own
home. Hope everyone enjoys the class.
Lochrane Gary – “Lockie” is the Director of the Hardee County Extension Service for the University
of Florida, where he serves as a livestock agent. He graduated from Penn State with a M.S. in Reproductive
Physiology. Following graduation, he instructed undergraduate courses in Animal Science at the State
University of New York for ten years where he was in charge of purebred livestock and the 3,000 acre college
farm. He spent 22 years managing large-scale livestock systems in Colorado, Texas and Florida. His major
extension emphasis is on cattle infertility and disease control. He has made 17 trips to the Middle East, Central
Asia and Africa where he volunteers as a livestock consultant assisting refugees with cattle and small ruminant
herd health and artificial insemination practices. He recently served as Chairman of the Florida Cattlemen’s
Institute and Allied Trade Show and has served on the Breed Improvement Committee of Beefmaster Breeders
Universal. He is a member of the South Florida Beef/Forage Committee. Lockie was recently presented with the
“Reach Out ” Award by the Florida Cattlemen’s Association at the 2005 Annual Convention in Marco Island for
his contributions to the Florida cattle industry. His e-mail address is lagary@ifas.ufl.edu
Jack Gaskin, DVM – University of Florida - Reared in a dairy farming environment in upper New York State,
Jack M. Gaskin received his DVM degree from the NYS Veterinary College at Cornell University in 1967. He
practiced mixed animal veterinary medicine in Middletown, NY, from 1967-1969, then returned to the
veterinary college at Cornell to earn a PhD in veterinary microbiology. He has been associated with the College
of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, as a teacher and researcher involved with infectious diseases of
animals since 1973. He became associated with Dr. Barney Harris and his Florida Dairy Goat Production
Conference in the late 1970's, and has been a liaison between the FDGA and the College of Veterinary Medicine
for nearly 30 years. Upon his impending retirement from the University in July, 2008, Dr. Gaskin plans to seek
a spiritual re-awakening in the "real world".
Joanne Jackson, Oreja Poca/Jackson’s Fancy Dairy Goats - lifetime member of ADGA, FDGA member for
more than 20 years, raises outstanding LaManchas, and now has grandchildren involved with raising, milking,
and showing goats.
Continued on next page
Peter Kennedy, Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense
Fund (www.farmtoconsumer.org), is an attorney from Sarasota, Florida. He has assisted and/or
represented dairy farmers facing possible enforcement action in various states as well as helping others to get
started in the business of distributing raw dairy products. Pete has worked on dairy issues for the Weston A.
Price Foundation (WAPF), particularly, the right of farmers to distribute raw dairy products direct to consumers.
He compiled the state raw milk law summaries posted at www.realmilk.com and has since written articles for
Wise Traditions Magazine and Acres U.S.A. on raw milk distribution. He is currently working with others to lift
the federal ban on the interstate shipment of raw milk for human consumption.
Dr. Traci Krueger is a clinical large animal veterinarian and instructor of veterinary public health
courses at the University of Florida. She received her D.V.M. degree and the International Veterinary
Medicine Certificate from the University of Florida in 2003, and an M.P.H. from the University of Florida in 2007.
Formerly, Dr. Krueger was an associate veterinarian at a predominantly large animal, mixed practice in High
Springs, Florida. She was also Program Coordinator at the University of Florida, College of Veterinary
Medicine’s Office of International Programs where she coordinated and taught international courses and training
for the DVM students enrolled in the International Veterinary Medicine Certificate Program. Being fluent in
Spanish, Dr. Krueger has international experience working as a veterinarian in Ecuador, Haiti, Bolivia, Mexico
and Cuba.
Dr. Ray Mobley is an associate professor and coordinator of Animal Science and Research programs
in the FAMU animal-science department and serves as an extension veterinarian.
Dr. Mobley is licensed to practice veterinary medicine in Florida and is a diplomat of the American College of
Veterinary Preventive Medicine. He received the bachelor’s degree in animal science from FAMU, a master of
public health from Tulane University and a doctor of veterinary medicine from Tuskegee University, and the
MPH. He is a certified trainer instructor for the Hazard Analysis Critical Control point program and has
conducted numerous food safety workshops. His area of concentration is herd health and food safety.
Coni Perry, Hoof & Horn Web Design- Coni and her husband of 22 years, Norman, reside in Deleon Springs,
Florida – a small rural community located in northwest Volusia county. Together they have 5 children ranging in
age from 21 to 2.5 years old, 1 grand daughter, and another grandchild on the way.
With a background in systems analysis and communications, Coni was employed by Housing & Urban
Development. Both Coni & Norman desired a return to their agricultural roots and decided to move back to the
country. Her husband’s experience in the cattle industry coupled with Coni’s family history of crop and livestock
management made the transition an easy one. At this time, the Perry family is developing a fine herd of
LaMancha Dairy goats under the Hoof & Horn herd name, which they began to acquire in June of 2000.
Coni manages the farm and a home based web design business. Her background in computer science and
communications lends itself well to graphic and web site design. In addition, Coni’s experience with livestock
and farming gives her a unique perspective and ability to provide her clients with websites that are visually
pleasing as well as functional.
Joe Pietrangelo/Glades Ridge Nubians. Joe has been breeding and raising Nubian dairy goats for
approximately 30 years. He is originally from New York where his herd was well known as Zaribi Nubians. Now
in Florida, his herd is now Glades Ridge. Joe is an active member of the FDGA and the INBA. His presentation
will enable attendees to become certified DHI testers and earn a certification from Langston University.
Continued on next page
Dr. Thomas E Peterson, DVM- Assistant Professor/Extension Veterinarian
Florida A&M University
University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine Class of 2003
University of Florida College of Animal Science MS candidate ruminant nutrition 1999
University of Florida College of Animal Science BS animal science 1997
Florida State University BS biological sciences 1995
A native of Quincy, FL I worked as an emergency vet in Alpharetta, GA until 2005 when I accepted a
position as an extension veterinarian at Florida A&M University. My primary area of focus is small ruminant
nutrition and herd health. I am the Program Leader for Animal Herd Health at Florida A&M University and the
co-program director for the Veterinary Technology Program initiative at FAMU.
Bob Simon, Technical Service Specialist - Lakeland Animal Nutrition
My wife and I live in Riverview, FL. I’m a life-long resident of Florida, growing up in Deland. I graduated from
The University of Florida in 1993 with Bachelors degrees in Animal Science and Agronomy. While at UF I was a
member of the livestock judging team. After graduating I spent a brief period with the Georgia Extension
Service before coming back to Florida and Lakeland Animal Nutrition. I’ve been with Lakeland Animal Nutrition
as a Technical Service Specialist for over 13 years.
Lucie York What a wonderful and exciting time to be the representatives for the goat owners in this state! And it is also a
privilege to be representing Homeopathy for Goats at this conference. Interlachen has been my home for some
20 years while raising my children and helping with their goats. When they left home, I got the goats. There
have been goats here on and off for, for some 18 years, and Homeopathy has been our mainstay about the
same length of time. Over the years, I began applying Homeopathy to the goat herding and vice versa. Many
of the Homeopathy meetings have been graced with the goat cheese of the day and it was there due to
Homeopathic intervention. Because I have found it to be such a powerful and gentle treatment for a wide
variety of challenges for my animals and family, I am finishing my thesis for Certification in Clinical
Homeopathy. Member for 17 years National Center for Homeopathy, Florida Homeopathic Medical Society and
teach a class in Homeopathic First Aid monthly at the Interlachen Library. Involved for some 12 years with
ADGA and FDGA as current Board member. I am also studying for ADN and hold a BS in Health Services
Administration. I work in the community with the Florida Baptist convention Disaster Relief Program and have
organized a Shopping Service in Putnam County for people who are unable to shop for themselves.
In your FDGA Complementary baggy that you will receive when you pick up your badges
there will be a questionnaire for your input regarding your rating of the presentations
and/or workshops at this year’s conference. Please help us by filling this out so that we
can plan our FDGA 2009 conference to the best of our ability with your suggestions and/or
ideas. Please deposit your questionnaire in the appropriate container “FDGA
Questionnaire” on the raffle table so we can tally the results. Thanks for your cooperation.
Continued on next page
Dr. Jack Gaskin
The Florida Dairy Goat Association would like to express our
appreciation and sincere gratitude to Dr. Jack Gaskin for his
dedication, service and countless hours he has devoted to promote
dairy goats, our annual conference and shows for 30 years.
It has been a privilege and honor to work with Dr. Gaskin and the
contributions you have made have been invaluable. Dr. Gaskin, you
will be thoroughly missed by all and we wish you luck in your future
endeavors, but most importantly “Finding your spiritual reawakening” in the “Real World”. Keep in touch Dr. Gaskin, we all
love you and you will always be a very important part of our life and
the history of the Florida Dairy Goat Association. We could not have done it without you!
THANK YOU!!
HAVE QUESTIONS? Please contact:
Laura Pierson
386-684-6655
piersonl@webtv.net
Lynn Noble
352-528-3200
nobleoaks@aol.com
Jan Brewer
386-496-31111
Jan_tnubians@alltet.net
Thanks for attending! We will see you on June 7th and 8th!!