Facts About Fullblood Dorper Sheep
Dorper Sheep – Meat Sheep for the Modern Producer.
Hardy and Adaptable - Dorper Sheep are highly adaptable and do well in harsh, extensive conditions as well as in more intensive operations.
Excellent Maternal Qualities - Ewes are excellent mothers and heavy milkers. Lambs are vigorous and have high survivability. Our ewes lamb in the pasture and have thier lambs up and moving along with them in 30 minutes. Lamb vigor is excellent with this breed.
Long Breeding Season - Dorpers are non-seasonal or have an extended breeding season. They can easily be managed to produce three lamb crops in two years.
Reproductive Efficiency-Dorpers are very fertile and prolific. Lambing rates of 180% can be achieved per lambing. They are early maturing and will produce a lamb crop at one year of age.
Pre-potency - Dorper sheep cross well with commercial ewes of other breeds and as terminal sires produce fast growing, muscular lambs. Dorper influenced commercial lambs are proven to have larger loin areas and are able to finish out on grass alone.
Non-Selective Grazers - Dorpers are excellent converters of a wide range of forage types and they excel in grazing or weed control operations.
Heat and Insect Tolerant - Because of their Blackhead Persian origin, Dorpers have natural tolerance to high temperatures and heavy insect populations. They are productive in areas where other breeds barely survive.
Parasite Resistance- Genetically resistant to gastrointestinal parasites, we concentrate on selecting for this characteristic. Our flock has done well with parasite resistance. We routinely do Fecal Egg Counts and utlilize the FAMACHA system to determain when to deworm individual sheep.
Hardy and Adaptable - Dorper Sheep are highly adaptable and do well in harsh, extensive conditions as well as in more intensive operations.
Excellent Maternal Qualities - Ewes are excellent mothers and heavy milkers. Lambs are vigorous and have high survivability. Our ewes lamb in the pasture and have thier lambs up and moving along with them in 30 minutes. Lamb vigor is excellent with this breed.
Long Breeding Season - Dorpers are non-seasonal or have an extended breeding season. They can easily be managed to produce three lamb crops in two years.
Reproductive Efficiency-Dorpers are very fertile and prolific. Lambing rates of 180% can be achieved per lambing. They are early maturing and will produce a lamb crop at one year of age.
Pre-potency - Dorper sheep cross well with commercial ewes of other breeds and as terminal sires produce fast growing, muscular lambs. Dorper influenced commercial lambs are proven to have larger loin areas and are able to finish out on grass alone.
Non-Selective Grazers - Dorpers are excellent converters of a wide range of forage types and they excel in grazing or weed control operations.
Heat and Insect Tolerant - Because of their Blackhead Persian origin, Dorpers have natural tolerance to high temperatures and heavy insect populations. They are productive in areas where other breeds barely survive.
Parasite Resistance- Genetically resistant to gastrointestinal parasites, we concentrate on selecting for this characteristic. Our flock has done well with parasite resistance. We routinely do Fecal Egg Counts and utlilize the FAMACHA system to determain when to deworm individual sheep.