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Standards of Respect

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Standards

of respect

The essence of our vision is captured in three words, “Respect the Lamb.” Our key guiding principles for our animals include the care we provide them, the environment that we have created for them, the nutrition in which we nourish them, and our transperency with consumers.
Our focus of care is at the individual sheep level, and we tailor our care to each of their needs. We have created a natural, stress-free environment for our animals that provides them with water, shelters, free range minerals and rolling pastures.

At Choate Family Farms, we have committed our lives to improving the animal’s health, growth and quality of life while keeping our customers as an integral part of business and building strong relationships with our valued partners.

Love

Choate Family Farms was established with Love. Love is captured through the compassion we have for our animals.

Care

Our day starts and ends with the interaction we have with our animals to ensure that they have everything they need.

Family

Our animals know that we will always be there for them and support them. They are our only priority.

Nurture

We nourish our animals with the nutrients and water that meet their developmental needs and desires.

Attention

The most important choice in life is what we pay attention to. We have unwavering attention for our animals.

Safety

Maintain an environment that does pose a danger or create anxiety to our animals and allows them to be in a relaxed state.

Happiness

Our animals are happy in their environment and have plenty of room to run and play. We love seeing their smiles.

Carefree

The environment we created for our animals allows them to have no worries and live their best life.

Love

Choate Family Farms was established with Love. Love is captured through the compassion we have for our animals.

Care

Our day starts and ends with the interaction we have with our animals to ensure that they have everything they need.

Family

Our animals know that we will always be there for them and support them. They are our only priority.

Nurture

We nourish our animals with the nutrients and water that meet their developmental needs and desires.

Attention

The most important choice in life is what we pay attention to. We have unwavering attention for our animals.

Safety

Maintain an environment that does pose a danger or create anxiety to our animals and allows them to be in a relaxed state.

Happiness

Our animals are happy in their environment and have plenty of room to run and play. We love seeing their smiles.

Carefree

The environment we created for our animals allows them to have no worries and live their best life.

Care

for our sheep

Choate Family Farms primary goal is to provide an unmatched level of care for the animals. This is insured by practicing the following:

• Nurturing the animals ultimate well being
• Micromanaging herds in controlled pastures
• Providing free range minerals and salts
• Performing routine health checks
• Active monitoring during lambing periods

Environment

stress-free

Our high-quality pastures have been divided into 20 pastures, up to 10 acres per pasture. The focus of creating these pastures is to provide the sheep with the best quality, seasonally grown nutritional grasses. This flexibility in our pasture rotation process allows us to provide our sheep with the best quality nutrition and allows us to implement regenerative farming techniques. Our focus is to establish pastures that have elements to create natural habitats for stress-free animals.

The key stress-free elements include:
• Open pastures with a low density focus of 2-4 sheep per acre
• Dedicated and natural watering resources
• Shelters, barns and natural cover in each field
• Custom hay and mineral feeders
• Ease of rotational movement
• Soil samples to determine natural fertilizer supplements

Nutritional

life cycle

Our focus is to create a nutritional program that is most responsive to the development stages of the lamb. Our nutritional program includes:

• Planting of Seasonal grasses that optimize the health of the pastures and sheep
• Pasture rotation to strengthen the animal’s natural immune system and enhances the overall well being of the lamb
• Rest periods between rotations to minimize the risk of over-utilizing the land
• Sheep recycle vital nutrients back into the soil which improves pastures into a healthy state and at the same time minimizing erosion.
• Real time evaluation of nutritional needs based on developmental stages

Nutritional

life cycle

Our focus is to create a nutritional program that is most responsive to the development stages of the lamb. Our nutritional program includes:

• Planting of Seasonal grasses that optimize the health of the pastures and sheep
• Pasture rotation to strengthen the animal’s natural immune system and enhances the overall well being of the lamb
• Rest periods between rotations to minimize the risk of over-utilizing the land
• Sheep recycle vital nutrients back into the soil which improves pastures into a healthy state and at the same time minimizing erosion.
• Real time evaluation of nutritional needs based on developmental stages

Transparency

with our customers

Our practice builds greater trust and openness with our customers and the end consumers as to the overall quality of our products. The transparency is achieved primarily through:

• Leveraging blockchain methodology as the foundation
• Creating an integrated ecosystem capturing information throughout all operational processes and development
• Sharing information in a transparent and trusted manner
• Utilizing technology solutions, such as Agrident RFID Reader and AgriLink software, to facilitate data capture and analytics