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…
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…