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 ...

ORLAND, Calif. – Lifelong sheep producers Wes and Jane Patton believe they found the perfect variety for their 230-acre ranch here. For a little over a decade, they’ve been breeding and selling white ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

You've been doing the same job all your life but your income starts drying up. That was life for the Griffiths family near Pooncarie in south-west New South Wales. After generations of merino farming ...

As the Australian Government responds to calls for greater restrictions, or in the worst case a total ban on the live export trade, Dorper producers should prepare their businesses to cope with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...