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…
Weekly Update: 29/01/16
Sheep Ireland Board Meeting January 28th 2016 As discussed at previous meetings with breed society representatives we will include a summary of all Sheep Ireland Board Meetings in this update.…
Weekly Update: 22/01/16
LambPlus Participation 2016 The number of pedigree ram breeders that have signed up to the LambPlus recording programme for the 2016 season has once again increased albeit at a much…
Weekly Update 15/01/16
Recording Lambing Data in 2016 Lambing is the most important time of the year from a genetic evaluation point of view. The accuracy of the €uro-Star evaluations is central to…
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