We were told that there were too many coyotes here to raise sheep, but with the 5 wire electric fences and Llamas for guard animals we have never lost a lamb to coyotes. Through our research we decided to raise Dorpers."

A relatively new breed in the U.S., the Dorper is a hair sheep developed in Africa. Dorpers raise lambs of good quality on poor forage where other sheep can barely exist. Since Dorpers breed year round you can get a lamb crop every seven to eight months.

Dorpers are prolific and a 180% lamb crop is not uncommon with 200% possible under good forage conditions. The Dorper ewe is fond of her lambs and gives plenty of milk for twins or triplets. The lambs grow rapidly and have a high weaning weight. We have a ewe that raised triplets that weighed a combined 210 pounds at 90 days of age. Dorpers are very calm and since they do not require shearing and are disease resistant they require much less labor than wool sheep