![]() ![]() The fastest growing sheep breed worldwide is the hybrid White Dorper and it would not exist if not for the foundational Horned Dorset genetics that were used to create it, the kind currently grown on Tamarack Farm. But Ben and Grace are 100% committed to heritage breeds, both because they have a family tradition that’s almost 100 years old, and because they feel that the genetics are potentially quite important to the future. Most of the more successful commercial breeds of lamb are a mix of quite a few other breeds - hybrid vigor is a really big deal in the industry. Supplements for the lamb include whole grains as opposed to ground or pellet feed. They fertilize the fields and cut them three or four times each year to keep the quality high. They have four old John Deere tractors, and all the equipment to make round bales. In the summer, this means grass growing in the field, in the winter, or for animals that are housed in the barn, this means hay.īen and Grace make all their own hay, managing about 120 acres of hay land.
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