Weekly Update: 17/07/2015
Ram Sale Catalogues This week Sheep Ireland continue to help breed societies to prepare sales catalogues for upcoming ram sales. We explained in our weekly update last week a number…
Gary is among the founding members of the Mayo-Connemara flockbook.
Weekly Update: 10/07/2015
Ram sale season kicking off soon Another ram sale season is upon us and the fruits of breeders data recording are being included in ram sale catalogues in the form…
The Ram Search User Guide
The Ram Search can be found HERE How to search for a specific animal: If you already have a ram ID (Dept. tag/ Ped I.D.) you can…
Weekly Update: 03/07/2015
Premier Sale prepartions This week Sheep Ireland has recieved alot of queries from breeders in relation to upcoming premier sales and evaluation data for sale catalogues. Each year there is…
Weekly Update: 26/06/2015
Ultrasound Scanning 2015 A large number of flocks continue to be visited for Ovigen (12 flocks) and Ultrasound scanning (30 flocks) purposes each week. Visits to some individual LambPlus flocks…
Weekly Update: 19/06/2015
Sheep 2015 Sheep Ireland are on site in Teagasc Athenry today (Fri 19th) in preparation for tomorrows major sheep event. There will be a range of attractions to cater for…
Weekly Update: 12/06/2015
Sheep 2015 - Athenry Sat 20th June We are now in the home straight in terms of preparations for this major event for the Irish sheep industry. This weeks Irish…
Weekly Update: 05/06/2015
Ovigen Update Yesterday (Thurs 4th) we circulated an update letter to all LambPlus breeders. To date we have visited almost 100 breeder’s flocks. We have collected DNA samples from just over…
Weekly Update: 29/05/2015
Flock data reminders For the past number of weeks we have been contacting breeders on an individual basis in relation to their lambing and weight data entered thus far in…
One of Sheep Ireland's experienced technicians scanning a lamb for muscle and fat depth
Weekly Update: 22/05/2015
Ultrasound Scanning for Muscle and Backfat 2015 This scanning data remains a vital yet optional component of the LambPlus performance recording scheme. Ultrasound scanning is being used in our €uroStar…
Weekly Update: 15/05/2015
2015 €uro-Star Evaluations In recent weeks a number of breeders have been requesting that Sheep Ireland publicise an early run of genetic evaluations for 2015 born sheep. While we have…
Weekly Update: 08/05/2015
Initial LambPlus Results for 2015 As the deadline for entering lambs before the April 30th deadline in order to be in with a chance of receiving €uroStars for lambs in…