Weekly Update: 18/03/16
CPT Lambing almost finished The final AI’d ewes are now lambing down on the flocks of UCD (Lyons Estate) and Brian Nicholson (Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny). The other CPT flocks have…
Weekly Update: 11/03/16
CPT Lambing The CPT lambing is one of the most important times of the year in the Sheep Ireland calendar and each year we try to improve the quality and…
Weekly Update: 04/03/16
CPT Lambing 2016 The first CPT lambs are beginning to hit the ground now. We are still in the very early stages of lambing with just 40 ewes lambed as…
Weekly Update: 26/02/16
LambPlus A text has been circulated to all LambPlus breeders reminding them about the importance of recording any outstanding lambing information and in some cases weights. The sooner lambs are…
Weekly Update: 19/02/16
Visit to SRUC in Edinburgh This week Sheep Ireland travelled with Teagasc geneticists to the Roslyn Institute in Edinburgh, for a meeting with SRUC and other stakeholders involved in sheep…
DNA Screen for Animals
This screen is to help keep track of DNA samples taking by Farmer, Sheep Ireland or other parties and relates the DNA Id back to the animal. Please see…
Muscle and Fat Scanning Help
Animals that have had their Muscle and Fat (M & F) Depth recorded will have their results displayed in the table at the bottom of this page. This page and…
Weekly Update: 12/02/16
OVIGEN Update This week we circulated letters to any 2015 LambPlus breeders yet to be visited for the purposes of OVIGEN. The opportunity for LambPlus ram breeders to get each…
Weekly Update: 05/02/16
LambPlus Recording Many breeders have now completed their intensive first batch of lambing and are now lambing down the ewes that repeated after AI and/or first service. As the pressure…
National Sheep Conference 2016
Some tweets from the National Sheep Conference 2016 where Dr. Noirin McHugh, Teagasc gave a great presentation on "Accelerating Sheep Genetic Improvement". You can find the paper she presented on…
OVIGEN Genotyping Pilot Project
In 2016 OVIGEN will fund a pilot project involving 10 breeders from each of the main breeds involved in the project (Texel, Charollais, Suffolk, Belclare & Vendeen). Flocks have been…
OVIGEN Genotyping Pilot Project
In 2016 OVIGEN will fund a pilot project involving 10 breeders from each of the main breeds involved in the project (Texel, Charollais, Suffolk, Belclare & Vendeen). Flocks have been…
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