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.…
Weekly Update: 23/12/16
Firstly, Happy Christmas to all readers of this Sheep Ireland Update. We would like to thank all LambPlus members, sheep breed societies, commercial sheep farmers and all industry stakeholders for…
Even when scanning percentage is 200+%, the 5 Stars still out perform
Case Study: John Renehan, Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny; Violet Hill Flock The Violet Hill flock is run by John Renehan who runs a flock of 70 Pedigree Belclares and 45 Pedigree…
Weekly Update: 16/12/16
LambPlus Lambing Notebooks 2017 This week we began posting out the LambPlus lambing notebooks. This notebook is an invaluable tool for sheep breeders to capture the required performance data on…
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