Weekly Update: 14/08/2015
Sheep Ireland ram sale Final preparations are now being made for the Sheep Ireland ram sale. The sale takes place in Tullamore mart on Saturday August 22nd. We have 186…
Weekly Update 07/08/2015
Premier ram sales These sales continue to take place around the country. Last week both the Charollais and Belclare sales took place with significant interest in €uroStar evaluations noticeable in…
Weekly Update: 31/07/2015
Weekly evaluations We continue to run a weekly evaluation each weekend. This practice ensures that breeders and commercial farmers have the most up to date genetic evaluations available to them…
Weekly Update: 24/07/2015
Sheep Ireland Online Ram Search The Sheep Ireland Ram Search has been updated as part of ongoing works to improving the Sheep Ireland website. The Ram Search allows farmers and…
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…