Weight Verification Pilot Project 2024
As you may know, the National Sheep Breed Improvement Program aims to enhance the genetic merit of sheep breeds through various strategies, including selective breeding. One critical aspect of this…
Why is it important to record Dead Lambs at birth?
When recording lambing events, a ewe must be given credit for producing a multiple litter of lambs, even if one is dead, fostered or sold as a pet. When this…
Recording Foster and Pet Lambs properly is crucial
Foster and pet lambs should be recorded under the genetic dam's lambing information. From a genetic evaluation perspective, if lambs are recorded under the foster ewe's information, the foster ewes…
Recording Embryo Transfer Lambing
When recording Embryo Transfers (ET) lambs breeders must avoid to record the ET as 'naturally born' lambs under the Genetic (Donor) ewe. ET lambs must be recorded against their Surrogate/Recipient…
Hill flocks need to Genotype stock rams now!
Genotype your stock rams for the best chances of producing SIS eligible rams for this season. SIS eligible rams are in high demand since the launch of the SIS scheme…
Towards 4,000 mouth recordings in Hill flocks
Sheep Ireland has been actively recording mouths of hill sheep since 2021. Presently Sheep Ireland has two hill flockbooks recording; the Mayo-Connemara ram group and the Donegal Wicklow Cheviot group.…
How to record a lambing on the LambPlus App
How to record a lambing event and lambs’ information using the LambPlus App. The aim of the LambPlus App is that it acts like an electronic version of your lambing…
Recording lambing events and lambs’ information online
How to record a lambing event and lambs' information using Sheep Ireland online services. Once you are in the Lambing Management page you will be presented with all the females…
How can I get ram semen genotyped?
Sheep Ireland strongly encourages breeders to genotype all sires, including sires used in artificial insemination (stock ram genotyping is mandatory see post here). This is due to the increased accuracy…
Stock rams must be genotyped for their offspring to receive star ratings!
With lambing season starting in many flocks, this is your reminder to genotype your stock rams to ensure your lambs receive a star rating! SIS eligible rams are in high…
Why and How to improve your Data Quality Index (DQI) score?
The Data Quality Index (DQI) is an index that rates flocks based on the quality and quantity of the data recorded on the flock over the previous year. This index…
Central Progeny Testing (CPT)
The CPT is a fundamental pillar of the sheep breed improvement programme: Source of independent commercial data Establishing Genetic Linkage Validation of the indexes Investigating new traits Building across-breed dataset…
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