Sheep Ireland €uroStar Multi-Breed Ram sale will take place on Saturday, August 23rd at 10.30 am in Kilkenny Mart, R95A4VP . The Catalogue is now available! Click here to download:…
The Sheep Ireland Guide & Directory of Breeders 2025 is now available and will be posted out to over 19,000 commercial farmers this month, in time for the breeding season.…
When to weigh LambPlus lambs? Check these tables. Record your health & weights quickly, easily, and accurately, using the LambPlus App. Check this video on how to do it: All…
Sheep Ireland aims to increase the genetic merit of the national sheep flock for economically important traits. With Rams sales season now upon us, and most sales including €uroStar evaluations…
Sheep Ireland Elite €uroStar Multi-Breed Ram sale will take place on Saturday, August 23rd 2025 in Kilkenny Mart. Closing date for entries is 12pm (midday), Tues August 5th Subs deadline is 10am,…
LambPlus aims to collect as much performance information as possible for use in the Sheep Ireland genetic evaluations. Breeders collect a wide range of data on their flock right across…
Sheep Ireland have built a new screen which will allow breeder to request their national genotyping programme (NGP) or scrapie certs. These certs are required for export sales and exporting…
Using the Ram report you can easily compare how each of the rams performed in your flock. You can select between Lambing and Weights data. By selecting Lambing, you can…
Martin Warren is a part-time sheep farmer from just outside Ballyshannon in Co. Donegal. His four children Daire, Gerry, Nessa, Kelsie, and father John, are all involved with the sheep…
Now that the CPT Ram Sale has concluded, all of us at Sheep Ireland would like to extend our sincere thanks to all the buyers and bidders for their support.…
The genomic evaluation runs weekly, there is potential for index movements due to new data flowing into the evaluation. The €urostars are based on the most recent data available before…
When a ewe is being genetically evaluated for her maternal traits, the number of lambs produced reflects her prolificacy and this is reflected in her Number of Lambs Born (NLB)…