Our current scanning machines were simply too old, prone to breakdowns and are no longer serviceable. The new machines will be a major improvement and will hopefully contribute to capturing more accurate data, due…
If you wish to have your flock scanned for Muscle and Fat depth this year please TEXT the word SCANNING to 0894577665 before the 22nd of May. Ultrasound scanning information…
Over the past number of days Sheep Ireland have been visiting the Central Progeny Test flocks to capture lambs 40 day weights. All CPT ewes and lambs have been weighed…
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…
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!
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…