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The Found family even feeds apples in their total mixed rations
Bethesda Ridge Farms adopted a modified accelerated breeding program to produce 1.9 lambs per ewe and reduced lamb losses from 25% to one since moving to the new barn.
- Earlier this month, the Found family established Bethesda Ridge Farms near Oshawa and expanded their flock to about 800 ewes on a 260-acre property with a new barn.
- Facing coyote predation and development pressure, the Found family shifted from a pasture-based system after about 25 per cent lamb losses, prompted by a developer's approach during their 2022 expansion.
- The barn spans 60' by 240' with 16' walls and 185 feet of bunk space; Brad Found feeds a 36 per cent pellet, distillers, hay, barley, and a TMR with apples from Algoma Orchards.
- Mortality has fallen to one lamb lost since moving indoors, with the flock managed in four flock groups and about 1.9 lambs per ewe, Found said.
- About 50 producers attended the Region 7 tour at the Found barn, including Ken and Angie DeJong, with Grace Clare praising wool staples near 3 inches long, Shepherd's Hill Farm.
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