A little-known breed just 18 years ago, there are now more than 550 Dorper and White Dorper stud breeders in Australia, as well as 200 commercial producers who have joined the peak body. Dorper Sheep ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some call them the cane toad of the sheep industry. For others, they're a salvation that's kept the bank away and farmers on their land. Years of drought and plummeting wool prices have forced merino ...

THE 13th Annual BreedELITE DSSA Southern Region Supreme Dorper & White Dorper sale generated much interest at the Australian Sheep & Wool Show (ASWS) and online this past Sunday. Philippe is a ...

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 ...

Fred Memusi, a resident of Narok County, was raised in a family that practises livestock farming. Growing up in an arid and semi-arid region, he naturally followed in the footsteps of his family. He ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For a city known for start-ups, IT, BT and an innovative mindset, here is another first: A local man has put India among the elite group of countries that have the expertise to breed sheep that yield ...