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…

Flock visits were suspended in mid-March when the Covid-19 restrictions were introduced and have  recommence since June 11th. Sheep Ireland's David Coen had phoned over 200 LambPlus flocks whilst the…

Flock visits have formed an integral part of the breed improvement program since they started in January 2019. They give LambPlus breeders an opportunity to talk one-to-one with a Sheep…

EuroSheep continues the dynamic knowledge exchange between stakeholders in the European sheep sector that was initiated by SheepNet. SheepNet produced 218 technical articles and videos including 42 solutions and 73…

As with all aspects of Sheep Ireland we are constantly looking for ways to improve the LambPlus programme with the main driver of change being breeder feedback. Every day we…

Sheep Ireland are continuously trying to ensure recording screens are more user-friendly relying significantly on feedback from breeders and other users such as flockbook administrators. These improvements are made to…

When breeders log into their Sheep Ireland account's they will notice something different about their genetic trend report on their homepage. Previously the genetic trend of your flock as a…