Ultrasound Muscle and fat Depth Scanning (M&F Scanning) This week marks the beginning of a busy muscle and fat scanning period for LambPlus breeders in the country. Two of Sheep…

Irish Grassland Association Conference and Farm Walk The farm walk will take place on John Larges Farm in Gortnahoe Co. Tipperary on Tuesday May 22nd. John is one of four…

M&F Scanning Correlation This week, Sheep Irelands Muscle and Fat Scanning Technicians came together to have a correlation day. The Muscle and Fat Scanning is a huge source of data…

LambPlus Deadline The deadline for entering lambs onto the Sheep Ireland database has now passed. Any lambs entered onto the system from Tuesday 1st May onwards will not receive €urostar…

Final Reminder LambPlus Deadline The deadline for entering lambing information onto the system is this coming Monday April 30th, after this date any lambs entered will not receive genetic evaluations…

Reminder LambPlus Deadline The deadline for entering lambing information onto the system is Monday April 30th, after this date any lambs entered will not receive genetic evaluations in 2018 but…

Reminder Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting Takes place next Wednesday 18th April and kicks off at 10.45am. It will focus on the main research involved in the national sheep breeding improvement…

LambPlus Deadline The deadline for pedigree ram breeders to enter lambing information onto the database is fast approaching. After the 30th April any lambsentered onto the Sheep Ireland database will…

Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting Wednesday April 18th The industry meeting will focus in on the main research that has been done and currently underway in relation to Sheep breeding in…

CPT Lambing is now coming to an end We are approaching the end of our CPT lambing period for 2018, with just Brian Nicholson currently lambing the last of his…

CPT Lambing Lambing has now kicked off on our 4th CPT flock and is starting to wind down on our other 3 flocks. So far, records for over 2,200 lambs…

CPT Lambing CPT lambing has now commenced on 3 out of our 4 CPT flocks. We collect large amounts of data on ewes and lambs at this time, which is…