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Weight Verification Pilot Project 2024
As you may know, the National Sheep Breed Improvement Program aims to enhance the genetic merit of sheep breeds through various strategies, including selective breeding. One critical aspect of this program is ensuring accurate data collection, particularly weights, which play…
Why is it important to record Dead Lambs at birth?
When recording lambing events, a ewe must be given credit for producing a multiple litter of lambs, even if one is dead, fostered or sold as a pet. When this ewe is being genetically evaluated for her maternal traits, the…
Recording Foster and Pet Lambs properly is crucial
Foster and pet lambs should be recorded under the genetic dam's lambing information. From a genetic evaluation perspective, if lambs are recorded under the foster ewe's information, the foster ewes are given credit for rearing two lambs even though she…
Recording Embryo Transfer Lambing
When recording Embryo Transfers (ET) lambs breeders must avoid to record the ET as 'naturally born' lambs under the Genetic (Donor) ewe. ET lambs must be recorded against their Surrogate/Recipient (carrier) ewe. When recording your ET lamb under the Surrogate/Recipient…
Hill flocks need to Genotype stock rams now!
Genotype your stock rams for the best chances of producing SIS eligible rams for this season. SIS eligible rams are in high demand since the launch of the SIS scheme giving Hill breeders a great market opportunity. As a reminder…
Towards 4,000 mouth recordings in Hill flocks
Sheep Ireland has been actively recording mouths of hill sheep since 2021. Presently Sheep Ireland has two hill flockbooks recording; the Mayo-Connemara ram group and the Donegal Wicklow Cheviot group. There is also a small number of individual hill farmers…
How to record a lambing on the LambPlus App
How to record a lambing event and lambs’ information using the LambPlus App. The aim of the LambPlus App is that it acts like an electronic version of your lambing notebook. The LambPlus App is available to all Sheep Ireland…
Recording lambing events and lambs' information online
How to record a lambing event and lambs' information using Sheep Ireland online services. Once you are in the Lambing Management page you will be presented with all the females in the flock that are old enough for lambing this…
How to use the Pregnancy Report
Breeders are scored on completion of recording the pregnancy scans as well as the timeliness in recording it. This report is very useful in determining the management and nutrition plan of ewe’s in the latter stages of pregnancy. Recording the…
Record pregnancy scanning and maximise DQI
Pregnancy Scan recording is included in the overall DQI score. Recording pregnancy scans is important in determining how many embryos each ewe has, which will then determine the management and nutrition plan of ewe’s in the latter stages of pregnancy.…
Sheep Ireland's account Farmer Homepage
Once accessing to your Farmer Homepage, this information is being displayed. Your Current DQI The Data Quality Index (DQI) rates flocks based on the quality and quantity of the data recorded on the flock over the previous year. This index…
How can I get ram semen genotyped?
Sheep Ireland strongly encourages breeders to genotype all sires, including sires used in artificial insemination (stock ram genotyping is mandatory see post here). This is due to the increased accuracy provided by genotypes in evaluations. If the ram that you…
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