Planned Maintenance:

Over 450 ewes have been sponged this week with ewes being Artificial Inseminated over the next two weeks in the CPT flocks. The purpose of the CPT sponging is to synchronise ewes oestrus cycle for the day of AI. All…

Sheep Ireland’s Ram Search can be used by commercial and pedigree farmers searching for any rams bred by LambPlus breeders. Rams can be searched by county, breed, age, their replacement, terminal, no. of lambs born, daughters milk, lambing survivability and…

David Coen explains the importance of recording ewe lambs that have not been mated on the Sheep Ireland database.  This is important for LambPlus breeders for a number of reasons; Data Quality Index (DQI), accounting for that ewe and ensuring…

  Using the LambPlus App has proved successful with many breeders recording on the go. Recording no longer requires farmers to sitting at a desk indoors, it can be done in the yard or in the shed as the event…

On the 30th of August, a detailed ram sale report of the 2022 Sheep Ireland multi-breed €urostar ram sale was published (click here to view report). This years sale had the highest levels of entry criteria ever required to enter…

Parentage Validation and Predictions Incorrect animal parentage leads to incorrect €uroStar Index’s. The €uroStars available for a ram lamb on the sale day are heavily influenced by its recorded Sire and Dam and data collected on that entire bloodline. Over…

Sheep Ireland are still in the process of selecting rams for use in the CPT program for the 2022/2023 breeding season. Many breeders have already been in contact wishing to submit their rams for consideration. Breeders who have entered rams to…

At this time of the year, ewes and rams are being prepared for the mating season or have already been put out for breeding. Now is as good a time as any to record health data on your flock, incidences…

If you have a ram that you wish to genotype using a pellet or straw of his semen, you can do so by contacting Sheep Ireland directly. If the ram that you wish to genotype is still alive and is…

LambPlus breeders should now be genotyping their stock rams purchased and used this breeding season. Genotyping of stock rams is very important as unfortunately rams may die, and having a verified DNA sample from your ram on the Sheep Ireland…

The LambPlus Elite, Multi-Breed €urostar Ram Sale is happening tomorrow Sat Aug 27th is Irelands largest catalogued ram sale with 423 rams catalogued (click link to this catalogue here). The sale takes place in Tullamore Mart with selling commencing from…