The Central Progeny Test (CPT) farms’ lambing season is running very well and coming to an end on our two CPT flocks.
All the lambing data is being recorded using the LambPlus App:
- lambing status, date,
- lambing difficulty,
- ewe milk,
- mothering ability,
- sex,
- weight,
- lamb vigour,
- rearing,
- and lamb ID.
The sires will be assigned via DNA predictions using a tissue sample collected from the lamb’s ear at tagging time.
As well as data captured at lambing, the ewes and lambs will be weighed and health inspected 3 times throughout the coming year. All of this data will be contributing to the €uro-Star evaluations throughout the year.