Dundas Heritage Farm (Rare Breeds)

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Me and Bertha, week after this photo she gave birth to twins. In September!

A few weeks after this she was on the menu at the Inn at Bay Fortune Gala Dinner!

We didn't Mom ! (too tough)

The exact history of the Dorset sheep in unknown. History does tell us that centuries ago, when the Spanish wanted to conquer England, they bought Merino sheep into southwest England and crossed them with the Horned Sheep of Wales, which produced a good, all-purpose sheep that met the needs of that time.

 

Thus began a breed of sheep which spread over Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and most of Wales and were called Horned Dorsets.

 

Horned Dorsets are an all white sheep of medium size having good body length and muscle conformation to produce a desirable carcass. The fleece is very white, strong, close and free from dark fiber. Dorset fleeces average five to nine pounds (2.25-4 kg) in the ewes with a yield of between 50% and 70%. 

 

Dorset ewes weigh from 150 to 200 pounds at maturity, some in show condition may very well exceed this weight, Dorset rams weigh from 225 to 275 pounds at maturity. Dorsets are one of the few breeds that carry the "out-of-season" breeding characteristic. The ewes are good mothers, good milkers and multiple births are not uncommon.

 

Dorsets work well in commercial situations both in the ewe flock and from a terminal sire aspect.

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