Welcome to the South Carolina Sheep Industries Association. Our goal is educate, encourage and empower our members to raise, show, market or just enjoy their sheep, lambs and goats. We offer programs to help beginning and existing Sheep (and Goat owners) raise healthy and productive small ruminants. We have quite a diverse group- sheep for dairy and some goats for wool and everything else you can imagine!
Whether you're thinking about getting a couple of goats as family pets or working into a microdairy, our classes and members can help you along the way. There's a growing interest in family farms to raise their own meat and milk as well as an interest in wool. Our upcoming conference has so much information in all aspects. Scroll down to Upcoming Events.
Our membership fee is $25 and renewals are due. Use the link at the bottom of this page to join or renew. A PayPal link is available for your convience. You will receive the ASI Magazine, newsletter and discounts on conferences and classes.
Our Parent Association is the American Sheep Industry. Many of the state associations are including goats (as we have always done in the past) because both species are small ruminants. To help with internet searches, we will use the name-South Carolina Sheep and Goat.
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Upcoming Events
Shepherding 201 moving from Pets to Production on November 5-6, 2021 from 9am-5pm both days.
This 'in person' event and annual meeting is hosted by
Whispering Pines Farm
681 Campbell Bridge Rd.
Seneca, SC 29678
Contact: Debbie Webster (864) 360-3222
also sponsored by
To register for one or both days:
https://whisperingpinesdairy.com/events
Includes:
Nutrition decisions (Jimmy Parker, AL, Livestock Nutritionist for AFC Feeds, LLC)
Forages (Dr. Matias Aguerre)
Ewe and Doe care (Dr. Cindy Wolf, Minnesota small ruminant veterinarian and flock & herd owner)
Lamb and kid care
Small ruminant pointers
Handling and treatments
Tour dairy parlor and milk room
Pasture walks
Ultrasound demonstration for pregnancy (Dr. Cindy Wolf)
Soil and Rainfall Simulator demonstration
How to become licensed public dairy (SC DHEC)
This workshop is 50% lecture and 50% hands on experience. Our focus is sustainability through intentional forage management, proactive small ruminant healthcare, and operating procedures to streamline care to save time and money with optimal results for milk, meat and wool. Tools and techniques for milking dairy sheep and goats from hand to machine milking will be covered from basics to functionality of a dairy set up.
Whispering Pines Farm is still doing training for sheep care, handling, milking and cheese making for families and individuals by appointment, for more info - www.whisperingpinesdairy.com.
For membership, go to the PayPal link at the bottom of this page.
Check out our Facebook page- www.facebook.com/sc.sheep.goat
Send in those membership dues.
The Sheep Industry News. You will receive this newsletter by joining SC Sheep which automatlically makes you a member of ASI
If you're interested in getting started with sheep or goats, check out Debbie's webinar for the American Sheep Industry about starting a family farm on limited acreage was very well attended by listeners from all over the US. It had more than 500 attendees!