WelcomeWelcome to the Trillium Dorper Ranch website. Our farm in Ashton, Ontario, is located only 20 minutes from Ottawa – Canada’s national capital – and 10 minutes from the town of Carleton Place in the lowlands of the Jock River. Our 100-acres of pristine farmland consists of pasture, orchards, cedar forests and a small creek, our new energy-efficient home, a modern-day coverall alongside century-old log barns, and is home to our flock of top-quality Dorper sheep. We’re very proud of the Dorpers we breed. Our breeding program is designed to produce Dorpers that meet or exceed the Breed Standard of Excellence, to produce Dorpers that display perfect conformation, good temperament, high fertility and excellent weight-gain. Our careful selection of top-quality genetics, calculated breeding program, instinct and experience have led to noticeable consistency in style, balance and conformation, shedding ability and sound udders in our ewes. To ensure that all our animals are as healthy as possible, they are raised strictly on pasture and receive high quality hay in winter. We are very proud of our naturally-raised, happy and healthy Dorper flock. Dorpers are considered to be some of the best foragers and feed converters in the world. They grow very quickly; they’re adaptable to any climate and fare well in extreme temperatures; they shed their tight winter coat in the spring and therefore require no shearing, and most importantly, they produce a high-quality meaty carcass. They’re an ideal breed for a low-maintenance livestock operation, and produce great returns, whether you’re interested in commercial production or breeding stock. Trillium Dorpers is pleased to offer select fullblood breeding stock suitable for all operations, whether you’re a commercial breeder or someone looking to produce champions in the showring. We invite you to explore the other sections of our website for more information on our operation and the Dorper breed. You may also wish to contact us or better yet, come by for a visit! Trillium Dorper Ranch – Breeding Quality, Breeding the Future… |
NewsWelcome to the Trillium Dorper Ranch’s website. Come back often as the information on our site will be updated frequently. 2008 proved to be an eventful year for us. We moved from our 10-acre location in Renfrew to our new 100-acre location in rural Ottawa, near the town of Ashton, Ontario. For your reading pleasure, we have added some information on our new energy-efficient home and environmental farm practices in the new Environment section of our website. Please don’t limit yourself to our website – we encourage you to come by and visit our new facilities, and of course, meet our Dorpers! We’re very pleased with the Woolly Acres flock we acquired from Lynn McKay early in 2008, and while we’re sad to see Lynn leave Dorpers to pursue other goals, we’re honoured that she felt her“babies” would be best-cared for on our farm. We’re excited to have such beautiful sheep join our flock! By acquiring these new bloodlines and integrating them with our existing top-quality genetics, we are now able to offer ever-more diverse bloodlines to our clients. Genetics that will produce, time and time again, animals with excellent conformation, great shedding, perfect udders and superior weight-gains. For 2009, some of our ewes were bred for winter lambs. This new staggered approach to
lambing is something we’re running on a trial basis, to see if the reduced workload at lambing
time is more manageable with our off-farm full-time jobs. So far, we love the new system. We
have some really nice lambs from our winter lambings and are looking forward to our next bunch Please call us for more information on our Dorpers and current breeding stock availability. We welcome inquiries from new and returning clients alike. Look forward to meeting you in 2009! Eric & Janie Blyth |