Bring a Fifth Parentage Verified Ram into the Sheep Ireland Sale 2019
This is to promote the practice of parentage verification and to reward the breeders that do so. If a breeder parentage verifies all the lambs they have entered into the…
This is to promote the practice of parentage verification and to reward the breeders that do so. If a breeder parentage verifies all the lambs they have entered into the…
Once you have ordered your genotype (click here to find out how to order genotypes), the video below illustrates the steps to take when checking for the parentage results of…
Please Text SCANNING by TODAY Friday 24th May to guarantee being Muscle and Fat Scanned this year. What are the Benefits of Scanning? Ultrasound scanning information is used as a…
Last week Sheep Ireland visited some of the later lambing CPT flocks to capture some 40 day weights. While visiting Brian Nicholson's farm in County Kilkenny, weights as well as…
On Monday (29th April), Sheep Ireland held their latest sheep industry meeting. A crowd of 80 stakeholders from across the industry were in attendance, and lots of great discussion from…
Dr Aine O'Brien presented the outcomes of the OviGen project at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. To view…
Sheep Ireland's Eamon Wall presented the Ovidata project at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. The synopsis of Eamon's…
Dr Theirry Pabiou presented the relevant updates to the genetic evaluations at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. The…
Sheep Ireland receive a volume of queries regarding recording ewe lambs that were not put to the ram. It is very important to account for ewe lambs within a flock…
The deadline for entering lambing information onto the system is Tuesday April 30th, any lambs recorded on the database after this date will not receive €urostars in 2019. The €urostars…
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…