Nutrition and mating ewes at the right time of the year is key to high lambing rates, according to Kaya Dorper and White Dorper stud principal and commercial breeder Adrian Veitch, of Narrogin. The ...

The Hollinrake family’s Knotlow flock from Buxton, Derbyshire, produced the lead priced lots at the British Dorper Sheep Society’s sale at Carlisle where trade peaked at 1200gns twice. First to sell ...

This year's Dorper sale as part of the Australian Sheep & Wool Show has been cancelled due to low entry numbers. I'm a general reporter with Stock & Land, with a special interest in irrigation issues.

The sale cleared 111 of the 135 Dorper and White Dorper rams and ewes offered, averaging $1484 across the lots. It was Dell Dorpers 186 Freddie, a grandson of Mickey Phillips JoJo, that topped the ...

“If you’ve got a Merino ewe and she’s not producing a lamb, at least you can shear her,” David says. “With Dorpers it’s like having an empty hotel room — they don’t pay. “We don’t muck around. We ...

Unlike a goat or a horse, or any other livestock for that matter, sheep wool is much like human hair: it never stops growing (here’s what that looks like). While the main detriment for people with ...

Greetings daktari. First, congratulations on your educative articles in the pullout. Second, I am developing a 50-acre farm in Laikipia just past Rumuruti. Farmers in this part of Kenya prefer Dorper ...

GALT, Calif. — Even though college and work took Catherine Diaz-Khansefid away from ranch life and onto a business career path, her ranching spirit always remained. “I was born and raised in ...

Deep in Erankau village some 6km from Sultan Hamud sits an impressive 400 hectare Dorper sheep sanctuary. The farm run by Mzee Paul ole Nagisikie and his brother, has been a learning centre for other ...