CPT mating 2015 Early next week all breeders that submitted rams for use in the 2015 Central Progeny Test will receive reports on how their ram performed during AI -…
2016 LambPlus membership Today Sheep Ireland are posting 2016 LambPlus sign-up forms. The deadline to return sign-up forms is Tuesday 1st December. The number of breeders joining the programme has…
LambPlus Regional Meetings The annual LambPlus regional meetings have been set for 2015 (Dates and venues below). A strong attendance is critical at these meetings. The current sheep breed improvement…
CPT Update There has been almost 1,500 commercial CPT ewes AI’d over the past 5 days, with 3 more days of AI left to do. The big challenge in the…
Mating Screens Launched The Mating Screens have been launched this week which enables flock owners to record their flocks’ mating information. This is critical information in relation to our breeding…
STAP Today marks the deadline for STAP task completion which means there is a huge amount of activity in the Sheep Ireland office. For STAP purposes in 2015 the €uro-Star…
Ploughing 2015 This week was a very busy one with the National Ploughing championships in Ratheniska, Co. Laois. Sheep Ireland participated in the Livestock Demonstration in association with the Irish…
Meeting with breed society representatives This week Sheep Ireland held their regular board meeting. In advance of this board meeting, we invited the representatives of all sheep breed societies to…
Central Progeny Test (CPT) 2015 Plans for this year’s CPT are progressing rapidly. We are currently assembling our ram list for the AI programme and have a full panel of…
A ram report has been launched for all LambPlus members. This report displays all the rams used in the flock for the previous 6 years. For these rams the following…
The Launch of the Data Quality Index The Data Quality Index (DQI) is a new index that rates flocks based on the quality and quantity of the data recorded on…
The LambPlus Multi-Breed ram sale Preparations are well under way for our sale tomorrow (Saturday 22nd August); breeders are asked to start showing up from 9:00am with the sale kicking…