Low Footprint Lamb

About

We established our Low Footprint Lamb sheep flock in 2007, with grazing opportunities in Bluegum forests at Simpson and Condah. We initially ran Coopworth ewes and although these sheep were robust and productive, wool related management issues made them expensive to run in plantations. This motivated us to seek other breeds to better suit our business model. Your ‘footprint’ simply means what you leave behind. With no wool production, high worm and footrot resistance and positive genetic fat and muscle, our sheep require considerably less labour, have fewer health issues and have lower feed requirements, reducing business risks, costs and our overall ‘footprint’. The term ‘low footprint’ has more recently been associated with carbon emissions. A low carbon footprint meat production system has high production per reproductive unit and per hectare. We’ve worked hard to increase our soil fertility and renovate our pastures, so we can successfully run 10 ewes per hectare. We are also pushing genetics and management to increase weaning and growth rates reducing our methane output to meat production ratio. We rely on clover to extract nitrogen from the air and fix it into the soil to feed our pastures.