Sale Report – Sheep Ireland Elite €uroStar Multi-Breed Sale 2020
Sheep Ireland’s 10th Annual Multi-Breed Ram made the move to Kilkenny for the 2020 sale due to Covid-19 restrictions in Offaly making it impossible to hold the sale in its…
Sheep Ireland’s 10th Annual Multi-Breed Ram made the move to Kilkenny for the 2020 sale due to Covid-19 restrictions in Offaly making it impossible to hold the sale in its…
The Sheep Ireland Elite €uro-Star Multi-Breed Ram Sale 2020 which will now be held in Kilkenny mart on August 22nd due to Covid-19 restriction in Tullamore, Co. Offaly. Please read…
View the Catalogue HERE CHANGE OF VENUE to Kilkenny Mart. This is due to Covid restrictions currently in place in Tullamore. Sheep Ireland is hosting their 10th Annual Sheep Ireland…
The deadline for entries for the Sheep Ireland Elite €uroStar Multi-Breed Sale 2020 is Monday August 10th. A provisional sales catalogue will happen from Wednesday, August 12th. We will be…
This year as part of the Central Progeny Test (CPT), Sheep Ireland is mating a proportion of the ewes naturally. To do this Sheep Ireland is purchasing ram lambs from…
The breeding season is approaching in the coming months and many LambPlus breeders are using their inbreeding checkers on their Sheep Ireland accounts to select suitable rams to serve their…
Selecting New Stock Rams The rams that are brought into the flock have a significant impact on your flocks EuroStars among other attributes. A few things to bear in mind…
Genotyping an animal now gives a breeder a lot of information on an animal including parentage verification and predictions (Where parents have also been genotyped), DAFM approved Scrapie and Genomic…
Entry Form Entry Criteria As usual, there will be entry criteria for each ram entering this sale. In light of the current Covid-19 situation, the entry criteria have not increased…
Late December/early January born lambs are now coming to the end of the Scanning/150 day weight bracket (between 121 – 180 days of age) and breeders should have these weights…
Breeders can order genotypes via their genomic ordering screen to parentage verify their animals, avail of parentage predictions AND receive Department approved Scrapie type results. All these results are for…
Last Thursday Sheep Ireland and Teagasc visited Tomas O'Toole's flock based in beautiful Clifden, County Galway. Tomas is the newest participant to the Teagasc BETTER farms program and the Ovidata…