Program Virginia Tech Livestock and Poultry Youth Weekend March 5-6, 1999

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Program
Virginia Tech Livestock and Poultry Youth Weekend
March 5-6, 1999

Livestock Update, February 1999

Friday, March 5 ENTIRE EVENING PROGRAM AT THE PAVILION
5:30 to 6:30 pm Registration
6:00 pm Supper -- Prepared and Served by Virginia Tech Block & Bridle Club
During Supper (optional) Meet with Student Ambassadors and Course Advisors about becoming a student at Virginia Tech
6:45 pm Welcome to Virginia Tech -- The Program in Animal and Poultry Sciences
7:00 pm How to tell what's under the skin of a pig -- Using technology, such as the ultrasound machine, as well we your eye, determine fat and muscle differences in market hogs. We will look at the carcasses of these same hogs tomorrow.
8:30 pm Adjourn for the night
Saturday, March 6
7:30 am Breakfast at the Pavilion - Make your own omelet
8:45 am Delivering a Live Calf and Dealing with Dystocia
9:30 am Move to Campus
Concurrent Sessions -- Everyone attends all of these workshops

Look at the Carcasses of the Hogs from last night
How do animals digest their feed? Comparative Anatomy using Tracts from a lamb and a pig
Reproduction, Pregnancy, and Artificial Insemination of Livestock
What did these lambs die from? Necropsy of Baby Lambs

12:15 pm Sub sandwich lunch at the Pavilion
AFTERNOON PROGRAM AT THE PAVILION AND BEEF BARN
1:00 pm The Reproductive Cycle
1:30 pm Quality Assurance for Producers -- Residues, Injection Sites, Bruises, and other Quality Concerns
2:00 pm Concurrent Sessions -- Everyone attends all of these workshops

Feeding Project Animals -- Steers and Heifers
Feeding Project Animals -- Market Lambs and Breeding Sheep
How to Tattoo the Right Way and Aging Cattle by their Teeth Baby Calf Processing

3:30 pm Head for Home

Friday, March 5	ENTIRE EVENING PROGRAM AT THE PAVILION
5:30 to 6:30 pm	Registration
6:00 pm	Supper -- Prepared and Served by Virginia Tech Block & Bridle Club
During Supper (optional)	Meet with Student Ambassadors and Course Advisors about becoming a student at Virginia Tech
6:45 pm	Welcome to Virginia Tech -- The Program in Animal and Poultry Sciences
7:00 pm	How to tell what's under the skin of a pig -- Using technology, such as the ultrasound machine, as well we your eye, determine fat and muscle differences in market hogs. We will look at the carcasses of these same hogs tomorrow.
8:30 pm	Adjourn for the night
Saturday, March 6
7:30 am	Breakfast at the Pavilion - Make your own omelet
8:45 am	Delivering a Live Calf and Dealing with Dystocia
9:30 am	Move to Campus Concurrent Sessions -- Everyone attends all of these workshops Look at the Carcasses of the Hogs from last night How do animals digest their feed? Comparative Anatomy using Tracts from a lamb and a pig Reproduction, Pregnancy, and Artificial Insemination of Livestock What did these lambs die from? Necropsy of Baby Lambs
12:15 pm	Sub sandwich lunch at the Pavilion
	AFTERNOON PROGRAM AT THE PAVILION AND BEEF BARN
1:00 pm	The Reproductive Cycle
1:30 pm	Quality Assurance for Producers -- Residues, Injection Sites, Bruises, and other Quality Concerns
2:00 pm	Concurrent Sessions -- Everyone attends all of these workshops Feeding Project Animals -- Steers and Heifers Feeding Project Animals -- Market Lambs and Breeding Sheep How to Tattoo the Right Way and Aging Cattle by their Teeth Baby Calf Processing
3:30 pm	Head for Home

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