Our database website will be under maintenance on Tuesday, February 3rd, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.

This European Innovation Partnership (EIP) project supports hill sheep breeders with a €650,000 funding. The project aims to establish Hill sheep flockbooks for Ireland by genotyping selected female sheep to record ancestry; critical for avoiding inbreeding, maintaining unique populations, and enabling genetic improvement. The objective…

This report provides valuable management tools and insights into your flock’s lambing performance. This is what you’ll see when you open your lambing report: For ewes, it details lambing status, litter size, lambing difficulty scores, milk production, mothering ability, and…

All breeders must  record the lambing information before April 30th. For any animal to retrieve Eurostars this year, breeders are required by Sheep Ireland as well as the majority of breed societies to register lambs births before 30th April. Any…

Any breeder using DNA combo tags at birth must record the department tag number and order the genomic service first. This needs to be done BEFORE posting the samples to the lab because if not, the lab can't process the…

As a LambPlus member, flocks are rated with a Data Quality Index (DQI) based on the quality and quantity of the flock data recorded over the previous year. This index can help you identify the areas where the data recording…

We have recently launched some new updates to improve the user experience of our LambPlus App! To view these updates visit your phones app store and update/download the newest version of our app. Where can I download & update the…

Muscle & Fat scanning service is being offered to all LambPlus breeders again this season. Reminder: If you wish to have your flock scanned for Muscle and Fat depth, please click on the green button and complete your request before…

Breeders and commercial farmers can access online to the Flockbooks of all breed societies who run their flockbooks through the Sheep Ireland database. This can be done through the Ram search & Flockbook feature. These societies are as follows: Belclare,…

Central Progeny Test (CPT) lambing season is almost finishing for 2026. Data collected from commercial animals is the foundation for the genetic evaluations. The CPT provides a huge amount of data each year. Performance information is collected on all the…

When to weigh LambPlus lambs? Check these tables. All lambs DO NOT need to be weighed when they are exactly 40, 100, or 150 days of age. If lambs are weighed between the parameters outlined below in Table 1, the Sheep Ireland database will…

The Central Progeny Test (CPT) farms’ lambing season is running very well and coming to an end on our CPT flocks. All the lambing data is being recorded using the LambPlus App: lambing status, date, lambing difficulty, ewe milk, mothering ability,…

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. Semen sample kits are ordered…