Terraweena, best known for its introduction of the Boer goat breed into Australia, has now established a dorper and white dorper stud on its properties in the Darling Downs, Queensland.
 
Sharing pastures and facilities with the 1,200 strong Boer goat flock, the first lambs, born in August 2007, co-exist comfortably with their caprine counterparts, thriving on the excellent pastures we have enjoyed for the first time for many years.

 

Wanstead, now home to the main Terraweena stud, is largely arable with irrigation to large areas where sorghum and oats are grown for feed.

 

Terraweena sourced its first white dorper genetics through Gert Lotter utilising not only some of Gert’s top ewes but also being fortunate enough to have access to Egoli (World Champion White Dorper Ram 2006 – 2007) and his father, Pretoria.

 

To give us an early diversity of genetics and believing them to be well suited to Australian conditions, Terraweena also introduced bloodlines from Stephanus Malan’s stud, Paardefontein.

 
We look forward to seeing progeny from both these studs competing against the cream of the cream at the annual National Championships.

 
In an arrangement with our Namibian partners, another 150 lambs from the famous stud of Pete Cilliers make up the full complement of white dorper genetics which form the Terraweena stud, along with further bloodlines from

K Lotter.

 

 
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dorper bloodlines were sourced from Micky Phillips and Theuns Viljoen.
 
With most of our experience in the selection and breeding of Boer goats, we look forward to input from one of the best dorper and white dorper breeders in the world, our Namibian partner, Dirk Louw.  Dirk Louw and Willie Coetzee not only made the selection in Africa of large numbers of the donor animals, on behalf of the partnership, but will also be visiting Australia regularly to monitor the progress of the animals and advise on sire selection and identifying ewes suitable for multiplication of progeny through embryo transfer.

 

We run our sheep the way we have run our goats, on a commercial basis, in large mobs on pasture and crops.  The 2007/08  season has been good to us so far and the stock are currently in good condition. Our sheep customers can be confident in robust, big framed hardy sheep ready to take on most conditions.

  Terraweena looks forward to expanding the parameters of its already considerable enterprise by incorporating the dorpers and white dorpers, confident in the belief that they will thrive in the Australian conditions

 

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