Weekly Update: 01/04/16
Ovigen DNA Collection Update The first major phase of the Ovigen project will be coming to an end next week when the final flocks will be visited for DNA collection.…
Ovigen DNA Collection Update The first major phase of the Ovigen project will be coming to an end next week when the final flocks will be visited for DNA collection.…
This screen is to help you keep track of your pregnancy scanning results from year to year. Please see below the instructions on how to us the screen. …
CPT Lambing almost finished The final AI’d ewes are now lambing down on the flocks of UCD (Lyons Estate) and Brian Nicholson (Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny). The other CPT flocks have…
CPT Lambing The CPT lambing is one of the most important times of the year in the Sheep Ireland calendar and each year we try to improve the quality and…
CPT Lambing 2016 The first CPT lambs are beginning to hit the ground now. We are still in the very early stages of lambing with just 40 ewes lambed as…
LambPlus A text has been circulated to all LambPlus breeders reminding them about the importance of recording any outstanding lambing information and in some cases weights. The sooner lambs are…
Visit to SRUC in Edinburgh This week Sheep Ireland travelled with Teagasc geneticists to the Roslyn Institute in Edinburgh, for a meeting with SRUC and other stakeholders involved in sheep…
This screen is to help keep track of DNA samples taking by Farmer, Sheep Ireland or other parties and relates the DNA Id back to the animal. Please see…
Animals that have had their Muscle and Fat (M & F) Depth recorded will have their results displayed in the table at the bottom of this page. This page and…
OVIGEN Update This week we circulated letters to any 2015 LambPlus breeders yet to be visited for the purposes of OVIGEN. The opportunity for LambPlus ram breeders to get each…
LambPlus Recording Many breeders have now completed their intensive first batch of lambing and are now lambing down the ewes that repeated after AI and/or first service. As the pressure…
Some tweets from the National Sheep Conference 2016 where Dr. Noirin McHugh, Teagasc gave a great presentation on "Accelerating Sheep Genetic Improvement". You can find the paper she presented on…