Dorper X Merino Sheep
Hfa 10 of body weight was evaluated on the performance of 24 australian merino sheep 12 from single birth and 12 from twin birth and their 36 dorper x australian merino lambs.
Dorper x merino sheep. Dorper sheep do not walk as much to select their food as other sheep do to find a suitable spot to graze. The first crosses between persian and dorset horn were mostly spotted but there were also white lambs. He mated 12 white half cross dorset x persian rams with his merino ewes and produced quarter cross dorset lambs 14 dh.
The effect of birth type single. T supplementation 08 of body weight for weaned lambs with creep feeding. Thus he became a dorset x persian dorper breeder but he concentrated on the white variation.
Thus the dorper sheep breed have less trampling shorter grazing time and fewer separate grazing periods. At jilakin we do not mules first cross lambs as these lambs have a plain body for easier husbandry. At jilakin downs we are using our existing commercial merino and finnmerino ewe flock to produce prime lamb and breed through to a commercial white dorper flock for prime.
Ccf or without creep feeding. Lfa 5 or high. Scf and the forage allowance low.