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  2. Dorper - Wikipedia

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    Dorper ram - South Africa Australian mob of white Dorpers. The Dorper is a South African breed of domestic sheep developed by crossing Dorset Horn and the Blackhead Persian sheep. The breed was created through the efforts of the South African Department of Agriculture to breed a meat sheep suitable to the more arid regions of the country. It is ...

  3. Dorset Horn - Wikipedia

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    The Dorset Horn is an endangered British breed of domestic sheep. It is documented from the seventeenth century, and is highly prolific , sometimes producing two lambing seasons per year. Among British sheep, it is the only breed capable of breeding throughout the winter.

  4. List of sheep breeds - Wikipedia

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    Dorper: South Africa [83] Meat [83] Dorset: Dorset Horn, Dorset Horned [84] United Kingdom Meat [84] Dorset Down: United Kingdom [85] Meat [85] Drenth Heath Sheep: Drents Heideschaap [86] Netherlands [86] Vegetation management [86] Drysdale: New Zealand [87] Wool [87] Duben sheep Bulgaria wool

  5. Dorset (sheep) - Wikipedia

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    In the context of sheep, Dorset may refer to: the Dorset Down, a British sheep breed; the Dorset Horn, a British sheep breed; the Polish Modified Dorset, a Polish sheep breed developed at the University of Life Sciences in PoznaƄ; the Poll Dorset, an Australian sheep breed derived from the Dorset Horn

  6. Blackhead Persian - Wikipedia

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    It was crossbred with local breeds in South Africa and also was "improved" by crossing it with such breeds as the Dorset Horn creating the successful breed now called Dorper. And the Ghana black-headed nangue is a cross with a Djallonké sheep and a black-headed Persian. [5]

  7. Category:Sheep breeds - Wikipedia

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    B. Badger Face Welsh Mountain sheep; Bagnolese; Balkhi sheep; Baluchi sheep; Balwen Welsh Mountain sheep; Barbados Black Belly; Barbaresca; Bardoka; Basco-Béarnaise

  8. Polled Dorset - Wikipedia

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    The Polled Dorset is an American breed of domestic sheep. It is a polled (hornless) variant of the British Dorset Horn. It was developed at the North Carolina State University Small Ruminant Unit in the 1950s after a genetic mutation led to the birth of a polled ram. After some years of breeding work, a true-breeding polled strain was established.

  9. Poll Dorset - Wikipedia

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    The Poll Dorset, a short-wool, meat-producing sheep, was developed in Australia between 1937 and 1954 with the aim of breeding a true Dorset type sheep without horns. The poll gene was introduced into Dorset Horn flocks from two other polled breeds and following a strict back-mating programme achieved close to 100% of Dorset Horn blood.