Weekly Update: 20/02/2015
Sheep Technology Adoption Programme 2015 STAP is has moved into its third year and the terms and conditions have recently been published on the DAFM website. As has been mentioned…
The calm before the storm on the farm of Brian Nicholson
Weekly Update: 13/02/2015
MALP & CPT meetings This week we met with our CPT and MALP flocks to update them on the latest Sheep Ireland activities and discuss plans for the upcoming lambing…
Weekly Update: 06/02/2015
Ovigen This week, information letters have been circulated to all LambPlus breeders informing them of plans for this research project. We plan to visit our first pedigree flocks next week.…
Weekly Update: 23/01/2015
CPT Update - Pregnancy scanning This week the final CPT flocks were pregnancy scanned. This is always a nervous time as we wait to calculate the ewe conception rate to…
Weekly Update: 16/01/2015
LambPlus Update It’s encouraging to see a large number of Lamb Plus breeders beginning to enter their lambing data onto the new Sheep Ireland screens already. Breeders are certainly recognising…
Weekly update: 09/01/2015
Weekly update: 09/01/2015 Happy new year to all readers of this weekly update. We look forward to the next performance recording season with a lot of optimism and hope that…
Weekly Update: 30/01/2015
Teagasc Hill sheep conference 2015 A great crowd attended this event on Wednesday evening (28th January). One of the speakers, Mr. Sam Wharry, Sheep farmer from Northern Ireland and Chairman…
How to Record a Lambing Event
To record a lambing event you must first select the Management menu at the top of the page and select Lambing Management. Animals not appearing? You need to use the web browser…
Adding/Editing breed compositions
When an animal is created for the first time on the Sheep Ireland website it will be created with the breed "Unknown". To add/edit the breed of the animal select…
Sheep Industry Meeting
The meeting took place in the Killeshin Hotel in Portlaoise yesterday (Thursday 18th) with a wide range of industry representatives present (80 in total). There were update presentations by Teagasc,…
Results from a project looking at the influence of genetics on sheep health in Ireland
The objective to this study was to quantify the genetic variation in foot lesion scores, fecal egg count (FEC) and dag score of lambs, and to examine the relationship between…