This booklet serves two purposes: The guide section itself contains very useful information regarding €uroStar indexes and how best to interpret them, ram selection, LambPlus, the Central Progeny Test Program etc.…
The breeding season is fast approaching and all around the country breeders are in the process of selecting suitable rams to serve their ewes. It is difficult enough to find…
Sheep Ireland are currently winding down the muscle and fat ultrasound scanning of our LambPlus flocks for the 2018 season. There is now under 20 flocks left to scan from…
CPT farmers are busy selecting replacements for their flocks at the moment. As part of the CPT programme farmers are required to keep a percentage of ewes from each CPT…
Sheep Ireland in conjunction with breed societies is running RamPlus for this mating season. LambPlus breeders have been offered the opportunity to use frozen semen of past CPT sires ram…
Sheep Ireland will hold its annual LambPlus €uroStar multi-breed Ram Sale in Tullamore on Sat 25th Aug. Entry to this sale will be limited to flocks that carry out Ultrasound…
Sheep Ireland in conjunction with breed societies will be running RamPlus for this mating season. We will be offering LambPlus breeders the opportunity to use the frozen semen of past…
For the past number of months, we have been working hard to develop a user-friendly App that will allow LambPlus breeders to record their lambing information along with weights and…
EdX in conjunction with Wageningen University and Research are offering a free 7 week online course on Animal Breeding and Genetics. This online course opens on the 13th of February. On…
Over the past three years, Sheep Ireland have been recording Ewe Milk, Lamb Vigour and Mothering-Ability, during CPT Lambing. The data recorded from these traits will further enhance Sheep Irelands…
Sheep Ireland (www.sheep.ie) continued to make excellent progress in 2017, with strong leadership from its Chairman, James Murphy, and a strong development team operating under the stewardship of Eamon Wall…