Roxburgh Dorpers]

Roxburgh Dorpers

Roxburgh Mains
Kelso TD5 8NJ

Tel: 01573 450 223
Fax: 01573 450 223
rawburn@aol.com
Roxburgh Dorpers
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The Flock

Roxburgh DorpersThe Roxburgh flock is of high health status. All of our Dorpers are Maedi Visna accredited with the Scottish Agricultural College and free of enzootic abortion. All pedigree stock has been scrapie typed. Our sheep are all on the heptavac 7 in 1 programme and are vaccinated annually for footrot.

 

 

Roxburgh DorpersThe Roxburgh ewe stock is mainly New Zealand genetics imported as embryos from select Dorper studs. The ewes are selected for breed type with accurate recording of lambing ability and offspring vigour at birth. This information will be used to aid our selection of replacement females. All Dorper lambs are weighed at 8 and 32 weeks old to monitor the ewes milking ability and growth rates of the offspring.

 

Our main flock sire at present is the German bred ram ‘HEINZ’. He is selected for his good conformation, fleece shedding ability and his exceptionally rare ARR/ARR (type 1) scrapie resistance. His first crop of lambs was born easily and with exceptional vigour.

 

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