Weekly Update: 17/02/17
Hill sheep parentage recording Sheep Ireland is continuing to work with Hill sheep groups around the country to establish parentage recording. The first step for all of these groups is…
Weekly Update: 10/02/17
OVIGEN Parentage Reports This week the first DNA parentage verification reports were circulated to some pedigree sheep breeders that agreed to participate in the OVIGEN sheep genomics research project. There…
Weekly Update: 03/02/17
Promotion of Sheep Genetic Improvement It’s clear that there is no silver bullet in terms of promoting genetic improvement to the industry. One thing that is clear however is that…
Whats the Accuracy of your Ram Team??
What is Accuracy% - Accuracy% is one of the most critical aspects of the Sheep Ireland genetic evaluations. Many people speak about the €uroStar ratings of a particular animal - each…
Carcass Data Analysis
Last week we talked about the potential of using a Lamb Quality Score (LQS) to help predict a lambs days to slaughter. This week we look at how well the…
Whats a Correlation??
A Correlation is an estimate of how related two variables/traits are. The scale runs from zero to one, where zero indicates a complete lack of a relationship and one indicates…
Weekly Update: 27/01/17
Carcass Data Analysis Last week we talked about the potential of using a Lamb Quality Score (LQS) to help predict a lambs days to slaughter. This week we look at…
Lamb Quality Score (LQS)
In 2016 a lamb quality score (LQS) was collected on over 2000 central progeny test lambs when they were between 60 -100 days of off age. The LQS is a…
Weekly Update: 20/01/17
Lamb Quality Score (LQS) In 2016 a lamb quality score (LQS) was collected on over 2000 central progeny test lambs when they were between 60 -100 days of off age.…
Weekly Update: 13/01/17
Sheep Ireland Board Meeting Thursday 19th January The next meeting of the Sheep Ireland Board takes place next week. As usual we encourage anyone with queries, suggestions or issues to…
Weekly Update: 06/01/17
Happy New Year Happy new year to all readers of this weekly update. We look forward to the coming year and will aim to continue the development of the €uro-Star…
Sheep Ireland – A Review of 2016
Sheep Ireland (www.sheep.ie) continued to make excellent progress in 2016, with strong leadership from its Chairman James Murphy and a strong development team operating under the stewardship of Eamon Wall.…
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