LambPlus breeders must not forgot to record their lambing events! There is nearly 24,000 lambs recorded on the Sheep Ireland database. Sheep Ireland as well as breed societies require lambs…
Ovidata is a European Innovation Partnership project assessing the use of genomic technologies for Irish sheep farmers. See Eamon Wall, Sheep Ireland, in the video below who visited one of…
The Sheep Ireland Industry meeting will take place on Monday April 29th and will begin at 11:30am. This meeting follows on from previous industry meetings where Sheep Ireland presented the…
Sheep Ireland attended the launch of the National Sheep Breeders Association (NSBA) Red Mills Sheep Championships this week, on Monday 8th April 2019. Sheep Ireland proudly sponsors this event which…
Sheep Ireland's David Coen visited one of Sheep Ireland's commercial farmers in County Galway this week. Barry Healy has been recording with Sheep Ireland for over 3 years and runs…
Sheep Ireland Flock visits are going very well, at present 36 LambPlus flock have been visited,with commercial flocks, pedigree flocks as well as Agricultural colleges such as Salesian, Kildalton and…
Late December born and early January born lambs have now passed the bracket for 40 day weights. Late January and Febuary born lambs are now are coming near the end…
Lambing season 2019 is in full swing and LambPlus breeders are recording lambing information that will contribute to their flock's genetic evaluations. Recording how quick a lamb is to get…
So far across 3 CPT flocks - John Large, Andrew Moloney and James Naper, there has been nearly 950 ewes lambed down. CPT farmer Brian Nicholson will be hitting the…
For early lambing flocks, now is the optimal time to record the 40-day weights for your lambs. It is important to note that the bracket for this weight is between…
Over the course of the past year, Sheep Ireland have developed an App to allow breeders to record their lambing data as it happens from the lambing shed. Breeders can…
Parentage predictions now possible Sheep Ireland are now in a position to predict the correct sire and/or dam in cases where incorrect parentage has been identified through genotyping. These predictions…