The Dorper, an African sheep breed which calls the Kalahari desert home is proving its worth to a growing number of Australia's drought-stricken graziers.
The sheep arrived in Australia in 1996, but their performance in recent successive droughts has seen the meat breed surge into popularity.
Owners of the Bellevue grazing company at Millmerran in south-east Queensland, the Curtis Family said they now have healthy pregnant dorper ewes, many with twins, surviving in very dry paddocks.