Weekly Update: 22/04/16
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…
Weekly Update: 15/04/16
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…
Weekly Update: 08/04/16
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…
Weekly Update: 01/04/16
Ovigen DNA Collection Update The first major phase of the Ovigen project will be coming to an end next week when the final flocks will be visited for DNA collection.…
Weekly Update: 18/03/16
CPT Lambing almost finished The final AI’d ewes are now lambing down on the flocks of UCD (Lyons Estate) and Brian Nicholson (Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny). The other CPT flocks have…
Weekly Update: 11/03/16
CPT Lambing The CPT lambing is one of the most important times of the year in the Sheep Ireland calendar and each year we try to improve the quality and…
Weekly Update: 04/03/16
CPT Lambing 2016 The first CPT lambs are beginning to hit the ground now. We are still in the very early stages of lambing with just 40 ewes lambed as…
Weekly Update: 26/02/16
LambPlus A text has been circulated to all LambPlus breeders reminding them about the importance of recording any outstanding lambing information and in some cases weights. The sooner lambs are…
Weekly Update: 19/02/16
Visit to SRUC in Edinburgh This week Sheep Ireland travelled with Teagasc geneticists to the Roslyn Institute in Edinburgh, for a meeting with SRUC and other stakeholders involved in sheep…
Weekly Update: 12/02/16
OVIGEN Update This week we circulated letters to any 2015 LambPlus breeders yet to be visited for the purposes of OVIGEN. The opportunity for LambPlus ram breeders to get each…
Weekly Update: 05/02/16
LambPlus Recording Many breeders have now completed their intensive first batch of lambing and are now lambing down the ewes that repeated after AI and/or first service. As the pressure…
Weekly Update: 29/01/16
Sheep Ireland Board Meeting January 28th 2016 As discussed at previous meetings with breed society representatives we will include a summary of all Sheep Ireland Board Meetings in this update.…