Linkage – What does it mean?
What is Flock Linkage? Flock linkage refers to the genetic connectivity/relatedness between flocks. Providing accurate €uroStars (genetic evaluations) to a performance recording flock is only possible if the flock in…
Scheduled Maintenance Friday 22nd July
Due to essential maintenance, ALL Sheep Ireland services including the website, email and telephone support will be unavailable from 7 am on Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th July. Normal service will…
Finalist of Highest Achieving LambPlus Flock 2022 – Liam Delaney, Belclare, Coolgarragh
The Sheep Ireland Breeding Conference & Farm Walk will be hosted on the 12th July and the LambPlus award ceremony will also be held this say with the overall winner…
CPT Mating coming to an end for another year
The Central Progeny test mating period is coming to an end for another year. By now all of the ewes will have gone in lamb (fingers crossed) and the rams…
Ram NCT demonstration
Breeding Workshop in Galway
This year in conjunction with Teagasc, Sheep Ireland held a number of breeding workshops throughout Ireland. These events catered for commercial farmers and pedigree breeders. Topics covered included: The host…
LambPlus App Help
We are very excited about this new phase of data recording and we hope this will make it easier for breeders to performance record their lambs. This App is essentially…
Genomic Results Help Page
Parentage Results Select between Parentage Results, Scrapie Results and Inbreeding Coefficient Results – when entering the genomic results screen, by default you will see your parentage results screen, and you can…
Help: Genomic Services
Please use the below guide when ordering a genotyping samples for animals present in your flock. Ordering DNA tags for animals in your flock: If you have ordered DNA combo…
Recording Health Data
The health status of a flock can have a huge impact on the profitability due to reduced thrive, increased treatment costs, increased labour inputs and increased culling rates. Sheep Ireland…
Pregnancy Scanning Screen
This screen is to help you keep track of your pregnancy scanning results from year to year. Please see below the instructions on how to us the screen. …
DNA Screen for Animals
This screen is to help keep track of DNA samples taking by Farmer, Sheep Ireland or other parties and relates the DNA Id back to the animal. Please see…
Muscle and Fat Scanning Help
Animals that have had their Muscle and Fat (M & F) Depth recorded will have their results displayed in the table at the bottom of this page. This page and…