Inbreeding, barrenness rate and genetic improvement updates
Sheep Ireland hosted an annual industry meeting on Thursday, April 29th at 1 pm. This one-hour online meeting covered some of the primary outcomes of research that has been undertaken…
Precision Livestock farming for Sheep – have your say
Sheep and goat farming are important to the rural economy of Ireland, Europe and many other countries across the world, particularly in areas that are unsuitable for other farming production…
Want to know what new updates were made to genetic evaluations in 2021? WATCH: Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting
Sheep Ireland hosted an industry meeting on Thursday, April 29th at 1 pm. This one-hour online meeting covered some of the primary outcomes of research that has been undertaken in…
CPT 40-Day Weights complete
Sheep Ireland technicians have been busy over the last 10 days visiting the 4 CPT Flocks to collect the 40-Day weights among other traits such as DAG Score, BCS, Lameness,…
CPT 40 Day Weights and Inspections
This week Sheep Ireland started collecting 40 day weights on CPT farms across the country, these lambs ranged between 20-65 days of age. Almost 1120 ewes and lambs were weighed,…
Online Workshops Prove a Hit With LambPlus Breeders
This spring due to Covid 19 restrictions, Sheep Ireland held 10 online workshops for LambPlus breeders during the months of February and March. The workshops were conducted using Microsoft Teams…
CPT Lambing coming to a close for 2021
Central Progeny Test (CPT) Lambing has almost come to a finish for 2021. Data collected from commercial sheep is the foundations for the genetic evaluations. The CPT provides a huge…
First €uroStar evaluation for 2021 now available
Sheep Ireland have published the first genetic evaluation for the 2021 season. This is the earliest evaluation publication we have provided to date. It is critical that breeders view this…
CPT Lambing has kicked off!!
The Central Progeny Test Lambing period has started this next week. This is a very busy time for Sheep Ireland with a huge amount of the commercial data that contributes…
Online Announcement of the Winners of the FBD LambPlus Awards 2020
Highest Achieving LambPlus Flock 2020 - Overall Winner – Maria Philpott, Duhallow Charollais The Duhallow Charollais flock (C62) has been announced as the overall winner of the highest achieving LambPlus…
Hill flockbooks: providing a foundation to protect and progress hill breeds and the sector
The hill sector is currently under-represented in the national breed improvement programme as there is less of an underlying breeding structure compared to the lowland sector. This is something that…
FBD LambPlus Award Winners to be announced next week
The overall winners of the FBD LambPlus awards will be announced next Wednesday, March 3rd at 8pm and will be published in the Irish Farmers Journal next Thursday, March 4th.…
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