Silicon Ranch has invested in a 26,000 square foot lambing barn at Houston Solar Ranch, designed and constructed to improve animal welfare for the project’s resident flock of sheep, improve the genetics and production of both the Georgia flock and the national flock, and help rebuild the U.S. sheep industry. The genetic improvement flock will spend a small portion of each year in the barn: approximately one day monthly for welfare checks and performance measurements that are linked to the genetic profile of each sheep, and approximately thirty-five days each for the lambing season. The sheep in this flock will spend the remainder of the year in the pastoral environment they are being bred to thrive in.

With our lambing barn in place and our dedicated and knowledgeable staff, we are committed to significant growth of our flocks across Georgia in the next decade. This growth is critical to our ability to implement regenerative grazing to restore land health across more of our solar farmland, in alignment with our commitment to demonstrating excellent land stewardship. Our investment in the expertise and infrastructure to expand our flock to restore more solar farmland also means additional important benefits for the communities of which we are a part.