Dorset Downs champion owner says 'unusual' breed has plenty of appeal

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Colin Chapman, Wedderburn, exhibited his family’s Woodhall stud Dorset Down sheep at the Australian Sheep & Wool show. The Chapmans took home the supreme champion sash. Video by Sunehra Ahmed.

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00:00I'm Colin Chapman. We have dorset down sheep. They are being exhibited at this

00:06year's Tradem Sheep and Wool Show and we won Champion Ram and Champion U and we

00:10run the overall championship for the best sheep in the dorset down class. We

00:15have dorset downs, they're an unusual breed. We have them because they are

00:19unusual and we'd like to retain their genetics over the years to come. So we

00:25spend a lot of time trying to get people to take on fall flocks. It helps to

00:29retain the bloodlines in Australia. They're a lovely sheep. We find them

00:33very easy to handle, very adaptable and they do very well when people go to

00:37paddock to plate type enterprises to capitalise on the meat product.

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