Ram breeder workshops on the €uroStar evaluations This coming July, Sheep Ireland in association with Teagasc are planning to hold a number of on-farm evening workshops for Irish ram breeders.…

New Ultrasound Scanning Machines to Capture Lamb Muscle Depth and Backfat Today (Friday 27th May) Sheep Ireland scanning technicians are on the UCD farm at Lyons Estate to complete training…

Are you interested in Scanning this year? If you wish to have your flock scanned for Muscle and Fat depth this year please TEXT the word SCANNING to 089 4577665…

Ultrasound Muscle and Backfat Scanning Another scanning season is about to begin again soon. The first flocks scanned will be some early lambing Vendeen breeders who tend to lamb down…

Sheep Ireland AGM 5th May The AGM on Thursday adopted the 2015 audited accounts, and approved the appointment of Ernst and Young as auditors for 2016. Sheep Ireland Board Meeting…

LambPlus Deadline (30th April) Tomorrow (Saturday) is the cut-off point - after this date any lamb entered on the database will not receive €uro-Star evaluations for the year, this has…

LambPlus Deadline We are in the final week for submitting lambing data with the deadline of 30th April only 8 days away. As each year passes breeders become more familiar…

Continued Progress with OVIGEN At this point almost 7,000 genotypes are now returned from the lab for the pedigree sheep involved in OVIGEN. There are still quite a number of…

LambPlus Ram Sale Reminder The date for the LambPlus multibreed ram sale is set for Saturday 20th August in Tullamore mart, Co. Offaly. This sale has been a very successful…