Healthy Lamb is a Boost to You and the Environment

Thanks to KJ’n ranch

Healthy Lamb From Our Family to Yours

We raise our lamb out on pasture rather than in factory feed lots. Pasture-raising lamb with managed intensive grazing preserves the soil, protects ground water, and recycles nutrients back into the earth. Studies prove pasture-raised livestock have less stress, less e.coli bacteria, and less saturated fats and more nutrients than their conventional counterparts. Supporting pasture-raised lamb production is a sure way to improve the environment, protect your health, and conserve the natural landscape.

Grass fed animal fat has higher levels of essential omega-3 fatty acids than animals fed high grain diets thereby leading us to believe that grass fed animals are nutritionally superior to those raised on high grain diets. Livestock raised on pasture have significantly higher levels of the antioxidant beta-carotene than animals finished in a feedlot and research found that the Beta-carotene content was twice as high as conventionally raised animals.

We now know that lambs raised on pasture are high in CLA, a naturally occurring fatty acid that may help the body prevent cancer. So pasture-raised meat is not just leaner than conventionally raised meat, its fat is actually much healthier. According to research, pasture-raised meat has a third less saturated fat than conventional meat. In addition, pasture-raised meat is also lower in calories. Lamb grazed on rich green pasture is rich in easily absorbed minerals and B vitamins – particularly B6 and B12.

Flavor: Dorper lamb meat is tasty and lean. At KJ’n Ranch we raise our sheep on natural grasses and the
lambs grow with no antibiotics or hormone supplements. Our herd is fenced out of creeks and reservoirs to
protect both local wildlife habitat and the quality of the sheep’s’ drinking water. Our principal protections
against native predators are our Great Pyrenees guardian dogs.

A Safe Product: Our sheep and lambs eat no grain products which virtually makes them unable to develop
the dangerous levels of e-coli in their systems that grain-fed animals experience.  The threat of contracting
disease is reduced because we do not feed them animal by-products.

A Healthy Product: Is grass fed naturally better for you?  Studies have shown that grass fed animals are 2-
6 times higher in Omega-3s, and have 3-5 times more CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) than conventional
lamb.  The average American diet is very low in Omega-3s, which leads to a higher risk of obesity, diabetes,
cancer, asthma, and arthritis.  Heart patients who follow an Omega-3 diet have a 70% reduction in heart
attacks and a 61% reduction in cancer deaths (source: Southwest Lamb Producers, AZ).

A Better Product: Our lamb is tender, delicately flavored, delicious, healthy, and safe.