STUD HISTORY
Since establishment in 2004 with 'Amarula' ewes and proven stud sire Amarula 'Douggie', Old Munbilla Dorpers has
sought to acquire sires with a proven track record at major studs based on the reality that successful studs likely used the best and sell the rest! This includes successful sires from 'Kaya', 'Winrae', 'Amarula' and 'Whynot'. While conformation and trueness to the breed standard is always paramount, we have also been very conscious of Lambplan performance figures in our ram selections.
We have shown our animals at the National and Eastern Region/NSW Dorper shows in Dubbo with success demonstrating our dorpers stacked up against the best.
We used embryo transfer (ET) program to expand our quality ewe flock which enabled us to justify the investment in quality sires to continue to improve the quality of stud dorpers.
Old Munbilla dorpers have been selected to thrive under our local conditions that are more subtropical conditions than most major studs. This environment regularly places considerable pressure on two major factors. Firstly, resistance and resilience to Barbers Pole worms, and second the structure and conformation necessary to minimise and hopefully avoid hoof overgrowth in challenging condition. We learnt early that sheep with very poor feet in our environment looked almost impeccable after 6 to 12 months on the tablelands. We also learnt to our cost that rams presenting with quite good feet at major sales were often unable to maintain that when brought to our environment.
Since 2015 we have had great success using 'Whynott' dorper sires including 130186 which had previously proven successful as a stud sire at Whynot, Bellevue and Dell studs.
130186, even 10 years after his birth, boasts MCP and MWWT in the top 10% and PEMD in the top 20% of shedding breeds. The level of accuracy for these traits is 86, 97 and 97% respectively.
Our newest Sire Whynot 220119 is by a Grandson of 130186 from a Dell Dorpers dam. He shares 130186's performance strengths with and MCP of 145 in the top 20% and PEMD in the top 10%.
We have always recognised the importance of skilled independent advice both in making better selection decisions but also in improving our own knowledge. We have received valuable on farm advice from multiple qualified inspectors including South African inspectors Dolf Lategan, Philip Strauss, Wicus Cronje and Philip van Schalkwyk and Australian inspectors Justin Kirkby, Christo Harmse, Nick and Mel Pagett and David Curtis .
Independent classing/typing is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills, learn more about your sheep as well as providing objectivity in selection. It is also a valuable benchmarking exercise to confirm the standing of our animals against other major studs.
I have been an accredited DSSA Inspector since 2017 but continue to draw on the independent expertise of other experienced inspectors to guide our selection of ewes and rams and breeding decisions.
sought to acquire sires with a proven track record at major studs based on the reality that successful studs likely used the best and sell the rest! This includes successful sires from 'Kaya', 'Winrae', 'Amarula' and 'Whynot'. While conformation and trueness to the breed standard is always paramount, we have also been very conscious of Lambplan performance figures in our ram selections.
We have shown our animals at the National and Eastern Region/NSW Dorper shows in Dubbo with success demonstrating our dorpers stacked up against the best.
We used embryo transfer (ET) program to expand our quality ewe flock which enabled us to justify the investment in quality sires to continue to improve the quality of stud dorpers.
Old Munbilla dorpers have been selected to thrive under our local conditions that are more subtropical conditions than most major studs. This environment regularly places considerable pressure on two major factors. Firstly, resistance and resilience to Barbers Pole worms, and second the structure and conformation necessary to minimise and hopefully avoid hoof overgrowth in challenging condition. We learnt early that sheep with very poor feet in our environment looked almost impeccable after 6 to 12 months on the tablelands. We also learnt to our cost that rams presenting with quite good feet at major sales were often unable to maintain that when brought to our environment.
Since 2015 we have had great success using 'Whynott' dorper sires including 130186 which had previously proven successful as a stud sire at Whynot, Bellevue and Dell studs.
130186, even 10 years after his birth, boasts MCP and MWWT in the top 10% and PEMD in the top 20% of shedding breeds. The level of accuracy for these traits is 86, 97 and 97% respectively.
Our newest Sire Whynot 220119 is by a Grandson of 130186 from a Dell Dorpers dam. He shares 130186's performance strengths with and MCP of 145 in the top 20% and PEMD in the top 10%.
We have always recognised the importance of skilled independent advice both in making better selection decisions but also in improving our own knowledge. We have received valuable on farm advice from multiple qualified inspectors including South African inspectors Dolf Lategan, Philip Strauss, Wicus Cronje and Philip van Schalkwyk and Australian inspectors Justin Kirkby, Christo Harmse, Nick and Mel Pagett and David Curtis .
Independent classing/typing is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills, learn more about your sheep as well as providing objectivity in selection. It is also a valuable benchmarking exercise to confirm the standing of our animals against other major studs.
I have been an accredited DSSA Inspector since 2017 but continue to draw on the independent expertise of other experienced inspectors to guide our selection of ewes and rams and breeding decisions.