4 Breeds now partaking in RamPlus 2018
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…
Sheep Ireland’s new LambPlus App
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…
Animal Breeding and Genetics Free Online Course
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…
LambPlus Breeders now have the opportunity to record new traits at Lambing
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…
A Review of 2017
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…
5 Star Ewes Scanning Half a Lamb More For this Suffolk Breeder in Kilkenny!!
Case Study: Shaun & Seamus Gahan, Graiguenamanagh Co. Kilkenny ; Barrowlands Flock Shaun and Seamus Gahan run a flock of pedigree Suffolk ewes. The flock has been performance recording with…
How do I find out how a CPT ram performed?
Background The national Central Progeny Test (CPT) which is run by Sheep Ireland is one of the most valuable breeding resources in the country. The CPT gives a means for…
An Opportunity to Highlight your Flock
Last year Sheep Ireland carried out several case studies on how accurately the €uro-Stars can predict the pregnancy scanning results in performance recording flocks, and the results were extremely encouraging…
Sheep Ireland Guide and Directory of Breeders: Issue 4
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.…
Sale Report – Sheep Ireland Elite €uroStar Multi-breed sale 2017
This sale boasted a record entry of rams for this Sheep Ireland sale. In total 306 lots were catalogued across seven breeds. On sale day we saw a huge crowd…
Next phase of OVIGEN announced
Next phase of OVIGEN announced OVIGEN (sheep genomics research project) is now offering heavily subsidised genotyping to ram breeders that participated in the initial stages of this project. These initial…
LambPlus User Guide for New and Existing Breeders
Included in this manual is the information and some handy links to help you to maintain and performance record your Pedigree Flock. Gaining Access to your Sheep Ireland Account To get the…
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