Alpine Dorpers is situated in the beautiful North East of Victoria, overlooking the Mt Buffalo range. We are 50km south east of Wangaratta, or about an hour south of Albury/ Wodonga, or about 3 hours from Melbourne.

Coming from a commercial prime lamb background, our are aim is to produce Dorpers with high fertility, large eye muscles, worm resistance, cold tolerance, good shedding and mothering ability, lambing ease, and sound conformation and feet. We are committed to and trained in the International Dorper Classing system, which we use alongside Lambplan, for selection decisions in both our commercial and stud flocks. Our stud sheep are some of the very best animals available in Australia today. They represent bloodlines from Kaya, Tien Jordaan, Bellevue, Winrae, John Dell, Amarula, Mickey Phillips, Ben Grobbelaar’s Woelewater stud, Strauss, and Douwana Dorpers.

Harry is a 4th generation sheep farmer and qualified wool classer. He is married to Nicola, a Sydney girl and language specialist, turned farmer, Lambplan & genetics enthusiast! Both are passionate Dorper breeders in high rainfall, cold, non traditional Dorper terrain. We aim to run a Dorper stud of around 250 to 300 animals and a commercial flock of over 1000 ewes.

We are committed to breeding animals that perform and are very productive in our wetter, colder climate. After 10 years of drought, in 2010 – 2011 our annual rainfall measured 1500mm. We are currently working with Lincoln University in New Zealand to identify and then breed from Dorpers exhibiting footrot resistant and cold tolerant gene markers. We are also using Lambplan to measure and identify animals with worm resistance, high fertility, good eye muscle depth and lambing ease. Our Dorpers are run under paddock conditions, commercially. We expect our ewes to rear their lambs on their own, testing their mothering skills and milking ability. Sound conformation in all of our animals is an important priority. However the Dorper is also a meat sheep breed. So we expect to be able to sell our commercial wethers to an abattoir and be paid for their extra muscling and higher meat yields. Finally, we want a sheep as easy care as possible! So shedding ability, worm resistance, cold tolerance & footrot resistance come into their own. This is an Alpine Dorper.

Inspections, all questions, and any enquiries are always welcome! Please call us at home on (03) 5729 5554 or on the mobile on 0428 433 611. (Please note our mobile does not work if we’re on the farm, as there’s no mobile reception!) Honesty, integrity and information is our aim.