At the recent Sheep Breeders Round Table conference in Derbyshire, England, Sheep Irelands Alan Bohan presented a poster on the work that has been done on Across-breed evaluations. The poster…
Sheep Ireland have been circulated to and existing breeders this week. If you are a new member to LambPlus 2020 (this sign up is now out of date contact us…
Sheep Ireland attended the Sheep Breeders Round Table which was held on Friday 15th to Sunday 17th November 2019, near East Midlands Airport, Derbyshire, England. The event was well attended by…
Sheep Ireland have launched a new pregnancy scanning report following the recent update to the DQI with addition of pregnancy scanning now accounting for a percentage of a LambPlus breeders…
Sheep Ireland have launched a new weight report that is available for all members of the LambPlus Program. This report is very useful in determining your slowest and fastest growing…
Sheep Ireland have launched a new health report that is available for all members of the LambPlus Program. This report is very useful in determining the efficiency of your flock,…
Good new this week for breeders involved with the Sheep Ireland breed improvement programme as the genotyping service provided via Sheep Ireland has now been approved by the Department of…
Sheep Ireland in conjunction with Teagasc are facilitating Ovidata, which is a European Innovation Partnership project assessing the use of genomic technologies for Irish sheep farmers. With year one now…
Sheep Ireland developed the LambPlus App over one year ago and have spent countless hours implementing and incorporating feedback from users to improve the user ability of the application. Sheep…
CPT Artificial Insemination (AI) is in full swing this week with fresh semen from rams LambPlus breeders across the country being used. Check out Sheep Ireland in action on CPT…
CPT Sponging The purpose of the CPT sponging is to synchronise ewes oestrus cycle for the day of AI. All CPT ewes are weighed, body condition scored , lameness recorded,…
Sheep Ireland LambPlus breeders are near the beginning of the mating season, which is an ideal time to record their ewe mature weights. Ewes will be indoors at some stage…