Recording Health Data
The health status of a flock can have a huge impact on the profitability due to reduced thrive, increased treatment costs, increased labour inputs and increased culling rates. Sheep Ireland…
IGA Sheep Conference – Tue 26th April 2016
The Irish Grassland Association will be holding its 2016 Sheep Conference on Tuesday the 26th of April in Wicklow. There will be a morning conference in Lawless’ Hotel, Aughrim, Co.Wicklow followed by an exciting afternoon farm walk with local Farmer John Pringle. It promises to be an excellent event with an exciting line-up of Speakers and topics. Gene Ireland is delighted to be co-sponsoring this event with Mullinahone Co-op. Click below to find out more!
Weekly Update: 01/04/16
Ovigen DNA Collection Update The first major phase of the Ovigen project will be coming to an end next week when the final flocks will be visited for DNA collection.…
Weekly Update: 18/03/16
CPT Lambing almost finished The final AI’d ewes are now lambing down on the flocks of UCD (Lyons Estate) and Brian Nicholson (Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny). The other CPT flocks have…
Weekly Update: 11/03/16
CPT Lambing The CPT lambing is one of the most important times of the year in the Sheep Ireland calendar and each year we try to improve the quality and…
Weekly Update: 04/03/16
CPT Lambing 2016 The first CPT lambs are beginning to hit the ground now. We are still in the very early stages of lambing with just 40 ewes lambed as…
Weekly Update: 26/02/16
LambPlus A text has been circulated to all LambPlus breeders reminding them about the importance of recording any outstanding lambing information and in some cases weights. The sooner lambs are…
Weekly Update: 19/02/16
Visit to SRUC in Edinburgh This week Sheep Ireland travelled with Teagasc geneticists to the Roslyn Institute in Edinburgh, for a meeting with SRUC and other stakeholders involved in sheep…
Weekly Update: 12/02/16
OVIGEN Update This week we circulated letters to any 2015 LambPlus breeders yet to be visited for the purposes of OVIGEN. The opportunity for LambPlus ram breeders to get each…
Weekly Update: 05/02/16
LambPlus Recording Many breeders have now completed their intensive first batch of lambing and are now lambing down the ewes that repeated after AI and/or first service. As the pressure…
National Sheep Conference 2016
Some tweets from the National Sheep Conference 2016 where Dr. Noirin McHugh, Teagasc gave a great presentation on "Accelerating Sheep Genetic Improvement". You can find the paper she presented on…
Weekly Update: 29/01/16
Sheep Ireland Board Meeting January 28th 2016 As discussed at previous meetings with breed society representatives we will include a summary of all Sheep Ireland Board Meetings in this update.…
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