Weekly Update: 10/02/17
OVIGEN Parentage Reports This week the first DNA parentage verification reports were circulated to some pedigree sheep breeders that agreed to participate in the OVIGEN sheep genomics research project. There…
Weekly Update: 03/02/17
Promotion of Sheep Genetic Improvement It’s clear that there is no silver bullet in terms of promoting genetic improvement to the industry. One thing that is clear however is that…
Weekly Update: 27/01/17
Carcass Data Analysis Last week we talked about the potential of using a Lamb Quality Score (LQS) to help predict a lambs days to slaughter. This week we look at…
Weekly Update: 20/01/17
Lamb Quality Score (LQS) In 2016 a lamb quality score (LQS) was collected on over 2000 central progeny test lambs when they were between 60 -100 days of off age.…
Weekly Update: 13/01/17
Sheep Ireland Board Meeting Thursday 19th January The next meeting of the Sheep Ireland Board takes place next week. As usual we encourage anyone with queries, suggestions or issues to…
Weekly Update: 06/01/17
Happy New Year Happy new year to all readers of this weekly update. We look forward to the coming year and will aim to continue the development of the €uro-Star…
Sheep Ireland – A Review of 2016
Sheep Ireland (www.sheep.ie) continued to make excellent progress in 2016, with strong leadership from its Chairman James Murphy and a strong development team operating under the stewardship of Eamon Wall.…
Weekly Update: 23/12/16
Firstly, Happy Christmas to all readers of this Sheep Ireland Update. We would like to thank all LambPlus members, sheep breed societies, commercial sheep farmers and all industry stakeholders for…
Weekly Update: 16/12/16
LambPlus Lambing Notebooks 2017 This week we began posting out the LambPlus lambing notebooks. This notebook is an invaluable tool for sheep breeders to capture the required performance data on…
Weekly Update: 09/12/16
LambPlus Membership 2017 The number of breeders that have signed up for the upcoming performance recording season has grown yet again which is hugely encouraging. All breeds involved with us…
Weekly Update: 02/12/16
LambPlus Sign-Ups 2017 The LambPlus sign-up deadline passed yesterday (Thursday 1 st December). The number of breeders that have signed up for the 2017 season looks to be on a…
Weekly Update: 25/11/16
Sheep Ireland Board Meeting A meeting of the Sheep Ireland Board of representatives took place yesterday (Thursday 24th). At this meeting a number of topics were discussed including; LambPlus membership…
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