Weekly Update: 17/04/2015
CIOC 2015 - Carrefour International Ovin/Caprin (International forum on sheep and goats) This event took place in Toulouse, France last week on April 8th & 9th. Sheep Ireland was represented…
Weekly Update: 10/04/215
Ovigen flock visits The programme of DNA collection for the Ovigen genomics research project has begun. We have visited over 20 flocks to date. Before we can visit each flock…
Weekly Update: 27/03/2015
Ovigen DNA collection update Our campaign to collect DNA from all Irish performance recorded ewes and rams has begun. A number of flocks have been visited this week and all…
Video: Lambing in UCD Lyons Estate
One of Sheep Ireland CPT farms is located on the UCD Research farm at Lyons Estate. They have put together a small video on the lambing shed which is presented…
Weekly Update: 20/03/2015
Hill sheep performance recording It is estimated by the 2011 Teagasc national farm survey that up to 24% of our breeding ewes are predominantly Blackface Mountain or Cheviot. These breeds…
Weekly Update: 13/03/2015
New Sheep Ireland data recording screens In recent weeks the number of breeders entering data onto the new Sheep Ireland website has increased significantly. The number of breeders recording their…
Weekly Update: 06/03/2015
CPT Lambing takes off Our CPT flocks are extremely busy this week, with lambing in full flow. There have been no issues so far with the favourable weather conditions being…
Weekly Update: 27/02/2015
UCD Agriculture and Food Careers Day This week Sheep Ireland and ICBF attended this very important day in the in the Irish agricultural calendar as it gives the soon to…
The calm before the storm on the farm of Brian Nicholson
Weekly Update: 13/02/2015
MALP & CPT meetings This week we met with our CPT and MALP flocks to update them on the latest Sheep Ireland activities and discuss plans for the upcoming lambing…
Weekly Update: 06/02/2015
Ovigen This week, information letters have been circulated to all LambPlus breeders informing them of plans for this research project. We plan to visit our first pedigree flocks next week.…
Weekly Update: 23/01/2015
CPT Update - Pregnancy scanning This week the final CPT flocks were pregnancy scanned. This is always a nervous time as we wait to calculate the ewe conception rate to…
Weekly Update: 30/01/2015
Teagasc Hill sheep conference 2015 A great crowd attended this event on Wednesday evening (28th January). One of the speakers, Mr. Sam Wharry, Sheep farmer from Northern Ireland and Chairman…