Weekly Update: 11/09/2015
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…
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…
Sheep Ireland Online Ram Search The Sheep Ireland Ram Search has been updated as part of ongoing works to improving the Sheep Ireland website. The Ram Search allows farmers and…
Ram sale season kicking off soon Another ram sale season is upon us and the fruits of breeders data recording are being included in ram sale catalogues in the form…
Ultrasound Scanning 2015 A large number of flocks continue to be visited for Ovigen (12 flocks) and Ultrasound scanning (30 flocks) purposes each week. Visits to some individual LambPlus flocks…
Ovigen Update Yesterday (Thurs 4th) we circulated an update letter to all LambPlus breeders. To date we have visited almost 100 breeder’s flocks. We have collected DNA samples from just over…