Ovigen This week, information letters have been circulated to all LambPlus breeders informing them of plans for this research project. We plan to visit our first pedigree flocks next week.…
LambPlus Update It’s encouraging to see a large number of Lamb Plus breeders beginning to enter their lambing data onto the new Sheep Ireland screens already. Breeders are certainly recognising…
Weekly update: 09/01/2015 Happy new year to all readers of this weekly update. We look forward to the next performance recording season with a lot of optimism and hope that…
Teagasc Hill sheep conference 2015 A great crowd attended this event on Wednesday evening (28th January). One of the speakers, Mr. Sam Wharry, Sheep farmer from Northern Ireland and Chairman…
The meeting took place in the Killeshin Hotel in Portlaoise yesterday (Thursday 18th) with a wide range of industry representatives present (80 in total). There were update presentations by Teagasc,…
Ultrasound Scanning remains an optional component of the LambPlus performance recording scheme. Ultrasound scanning is used to replace factory carcass data that is yet not available in abundant amounts due…
Sheep Ireland funding to date 2008 - August 2012 The Department of Agriculture has provided the funding for all of Sheep Ireland activities in this period in the form of…
Background "Sheep Ireland" is the trading name of Sheep Database CLG and was formed in 2009 after a period of extensive consultation with the sheep industry. We were designated with…