An Opportunity to Highlight your Flock
Last year Sheep Ireland carried out several case studies on how accurately the €uro-Stars can predict the pregnancy scanning results in performance recording flocks, and the results were extremely encouraging…
Sheep Ireland Guide and Directory of Breeders: Issue 4
This booklet serves two purposes: The guide section itself contains very useful information regarding €uroStar indexes and how best to interpret them, ram selection, LambPlus, the Central Progeny Test Program etc.…
Sale Report – Sheep Ireland Elite €uroStar Multi-breed sale 2017
This sale boasted a record entry of rams for this Sheep Ireland sale. In total 306 lots were catalogued across seven breeds. On sale day we saw a huge crowd…
Next phase of OVIGEN announced
Next phase of OVIGEN announced OVIGEN (sheep genomics research project) is now offering heavily subsidised genotyping to ram breeders that participated in the initial stages of this project. These initial…
LambPlus User Guide for New and Existing Breeders
Included in this manual is the information and some handy links to help you to maintain and performance record your Pedigree Flock. Gaining Access to your Sheep Ireland Account To get the…
OVIGEN Parentage Reports
Another first for Irish sheep genetic improvement Over the past number of weeks Sheep Ireland have been circulating Parentage Verification results to pedigree ram breeders that participated in the OVIGEN…
Whats the Accuracy of your Ram Team??
What is Accuracy% - Accuracy% is one of the most critical aspects of the Sheep Ireland genetic evaluations. Many people speak about the €uroStar ratings of a particular animal - each…
Carcass Data Analysis
Last week we talked about the potential of using a Lamb Quality Score (LQS) to help predict a lambs days to slaughter. This week we look at how well the…
Lamb Quality Score (LQS)
In 2016 a lamb quality score (LQS) was collected on over 2000 central progeny test lambs when they were between 60 -100 days of off age. The LQS is a…
Even when scanning percentage is 200+%, the 5 Stars still out perform
Case Study: John Renehan, Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny; Violet Hill Flock The Violet Hill flock is run by John Renehan who runs a flock of 70 Pedigree Belclares and 45 Pedigree…
€uroStars identifying most prolific ewes in a long established Co. Kilkenny Suffolk flock
Case Study: Richard Moore, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny; Columbkille Flock Richard has been breeding Suffolk sheep all his life, his flock was established in 1958 by his father and has been…
5 Star Ewes Producing Half a Lamb More For One Cork Breeder!!
Case Study: Jim and Frampton Jeffery, Midleton, Co. Cork; Bawnard Flock Jim and Frampton Jeffery run a flock of pedigree Charollais, Suffolk and Texel ewes. The flock has been performance…
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