Oh definitely as terminal sire .this summer my dorpers did really good with not much infront of them .very easy to get the weight on the lambs very little input.the big boys who loves the creep feeders when prices are like it is now are chasing a price and it's gonna hurt when winter really kicks in .
http://www.dormersa.com/p11/dormer-breed/the-origin-and-development-of-the-dormer.html
My Exlana ram on Glamorgan ewes last year produced every lamb shed its wool, most had shed a few coats before weaning!
Why white faced ?
Genetics not cosmetics !
Forget what they look like --just ask how they perform and for the data to prove it
Are these exlana x dorper
They certainly are
No exlana x Glamorgan’s but if the dorper could be white faced like them they’d tick all the boxes
I still have the shivers down my spine of when we used to have a lot of Suffolk rams, i’m Not sure I could face a black faced ram again incase somebody put Suffolk blood in it.
Is that the welsh version of a Chevease?
My thoughts were you could keep the wool income off the ewes (living in hopeThey certainly are
This is fairly typical of what we get from a full wool ewe x dorper ram
They do get very heavy very fast, have to watch the buggers or they romp past the 50kg mark and get knocked down, while being 4 inches shorter in the leg than the other lambs.
) and save yourself a hell of a lot of work by not having to spray or dag any lambs if they all shed. Don't find ewes too bad they only need shearing once and that's it for the year. Wool should pay for the shearing costs and maybe leave a little extra. Maybe
What’s a chevease? There’s quite a few different types of welsh mountains from the small 30kg ones up to the 70kg Glamorgan or Nelson welsh, more of a lowland and improved hill farm animal. They are hair based not wool so they naturally have the odd shedders, they’ve shedded far better than I thought, I thought there’d be some that wouldn’t shed and be very thick hair like a Glamorgan but they all shedded quickly and were easily identifiable by 8 weeks.
The Dorper is black headed not black faced. The Dorper cross lambs will come out completely black with a little bit of white on the sides. The genetics of a Black Dorper are 2 fold. One is Dominant Black (E) the same as Jacobs, Balwyens and Zwartbles, the other is the persian restriction gene (Pr) which restricts the color to the head. E is dominat so all lambs will be black, Pr is recessive so no color restriction in the lambs.No exlana x Glamorgan’s but if the dorper could be white faced like them they’d tick all the boxes
Chevease is an Easycare x Cheviot than has been interbred I think the aim was to breed a Shedding cheviot type sheep.
My findings are not to go near them with a handpiece - it is like trying to shear turf, very tough combingMy thoughts were you could keep the wool income off the ewes (living in hope
Plenty of Blackie, Cheviot, and welsh shedders with out crossing as well. Maybe an opportunity for an enterprising breeder.
Thank you .yes you do but not many in country yet I have a few throwbacks from breeding .they definitely won t be related to any of your stock.
