Woolless, hornless sheep with good confirmation. Sounds too good to be true? Apparently not, according to Joe Adams, who imported 150 Dorper embryos in 2005. Having already bred purebred Wiltshire ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In Australia, white dorper sheep breeders and owners are hoping to eradicate a genetic disorder causing a lethal fragile skin condition among some of their drought-hardy flocks. The disease ...

Prices of $300, $400, $500 and $600 have regularly appeared on AuctionsPlus for young Dorper and Australian White ewes this year, culminating in some record-smashing sales of up to $994 a head in the ...

He also thinks it is time Australians who love throwing a lamb chop on the barbecue — or a marin­ated slow-cooked lamb shoulder in the oven — were given a greater right to choose the quality of lamb ...

A disease in white dorper sheep that causes lamb's skin to be fragile, tear, and fall off, is being seen by vets in western NSW. The genetic disease known as Dermatosparaxis is incurable and fatal; ...

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 ...

An African sheep breed which calls the Kalahari desert home is proving its worth to a growing number of Australia's drought-stricken graziers. When the first dorpers arrived in Australia in 1996, not ...