Learn about alpacas, llamas with UMaine Extension
University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering an alpaca and llama workshop from 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Saturday, March 12 at the Androscoggin-Sagadahoc counties Extension Office, 24 Main St., Lisbon Falls.
Led by UMaine Extension staff, workshop topics will include bookkeeping, enterprise budgeting, insurance, pasture management and nutrition. Participants will spend the afternoon at nearby Graceland Alpaca Farm where Laila Roukounakis will offer a tour and discuss herd health strategies. Dr. Meghan Flanagan, a large-animal veterinarian, also will be on hand to discuss how to prevent and treat for parasites.
The $35 fee includes lunch courtesy of the Maine Alpaca Association. Registration and more information is online. The snow date is March 13.
For more information or to request a disability accommodation, contact KymNoelle Sposato at 353.5550, 800.287.1458 (in Maine) or kymnoelle.sposato@maine.edu.