Given the widespread economic and animal health impacts inflicted on Australian sheep flocks by Ovine Johne’s Disease and Ovine Brucellosis, industry leaders are calling on producers to familiarise themselves with up-to-date management procedures to reduce infection risk. The current OJD Management plan was set to expire at the end of...
HIGH fertility has allowed Brett and Lyndall Norris to dramatically increase numbers in their White Dorper operation at Cheddington, Warrumbungle. The lamb producers, who are now commercial members of the Dorper Sheep Society of Australia, bought their first 253 ewes in February, 2016, when they shifted from a Merino and...
Remote water monitoring products are paying off for producers on large properties by allowing them to idenitfy leakages and stock watering issues early. Wildeye managing director Kieran Coupe, said the four core products used by sheep producers included rain gauges, water level sensors for tanks servicing stock, water meter monitors...
LAMB producers should consider unique ways to get their product to market, according to the Prime Dorper Lamb pilot project, which aims to revolutionise the way customers can buy quality, branded Dorper lamb. The project, funded by Dorper Sheep Society of Australia and MLA Donor Company through the Fast-Track program,...
THE annual meeting of the Queensland region of the Dorper Sheep Society of Australia was held on 24th March at Toowoomba, with the elections of new office bearers. I, Richard Knights, was elected president, Mary Lynch was elected secretary and an exceutive committee was formed. Peter Lynch and Barry Henry...
The high fertility of Dorper sheep is helping Griffith region producer, Sally Jones, achieve her aim of keeping her ewe flock as small as possible while producing large numbers of top-quality lambs. She operates a 4200-hectare irrigation and dryland Dorper enterprise based at “North Corynnia”, near Tabbita, north west of...
IT WAS the low maintenance and easy-doing nature of the Dorper that attracted John and Karen Elmes to the breed 16 years ago. When we started we could run them with the cattle, run them in the paddock and forget about them,” My Elmes said. “They are such a hardy...
IT’S a process that’s illegal in many parts of the world, and now Dorper producers are being encouraged to cease tail docking to improve animal welfare and to limit setbacks in weight gain after lamb marking. While it may take some time for producers to get used to the idea,...
A SWITCH to White Dorpers has given Colin and Jill Greenfield increased management flexibility and marketing options across their South Australian pastoral properties. Along with their three children, Laura, Anna and Bridie, the pair take care of the 5000 square kilometre Billa Kalina Station, which is north-west of Roxby Downs,...
BASED on a floodplain Ormeau in the Gold Coast Hinterland, Livingstone Christian College needed a breed of sheep with the capacity to withstand the wet conditions. “Dorpers were our chosen breed as they are hardy,” said agricultural technologies co-ordinator Troy Reynolds. “They need to be worm resistant and robust without...
