Weekly Update: 14/08/2015
Sheep Ireland ram sale Final preparations are now being made for the Sheep Ireland ram sale. The sale takes place in Tullamore mart on Saturday August 22nd. We have 186…
Weekly Update: 31/07/2015
Weekly evaluations We continue to run a weekly evaluation each weekend. This practice ensures that breeders and commercial farmers have the most up to date genetic evaluations available to them…
Gary is among the founding members of the Mayo-Connemara flockbook.
Weekly Update: 10/07/2015
Ram sale season kicking off soon Another ram sale season is upon us and the fruits of breeders data recording are being included in ram sale catalogues in the form…
Weekly Update: 03/07/2015
Premier Sale prepartions This week Sheep Ireland has recieved alot of queries from breeders in relation to upcoming premier sales and evaluation data for sale catalogues. Each year there is…
Weekly Update: 26/06/2015
Ultrasound Scanning 2015 A large number of flocks continue to be visited for Ovigen (12 flocks) and Ultrasound scanning (30 flocks) purposes each week. Visits to some individual LambPlus flocks…
Weekly Update: 19/06/2015
Sheep 2015 Sheep Ireland are on site in Teagasc Athenry today (Fri 19th) in preparation for tomorrows major sheep event. There will be a range of attractions to cater for…
Weekly Update: 05/06/2015
Ovigen Update Yesterday (Thurs 4th) we circulated an update letter to all LambPlus breeders. To date we have visited almost 100 breeder’s flocks. We have collected DNA samples from just over…
Batch Weight Recording Help
This screen is used to record multiple weights for multiple sheep. As weights are entered and average daily gain (ADG) from the last weight is calculated. There are 6…
Weekly Update: 16/01/2015
LambPlus Update It’s encouraging to see a large number of Lamb Plus breeders beginning to enter their lambing data onto the new Sheep Ireland screens already. Breeders are certainly recognising…
Weekly update: 09/01/2015
Weekly update: 09/01/2015 Happy new year to all readers of this weekly update. We look forward to the next performance recording season with a lot of optimism and hope that…
Adding/Editing breed compositions
When an animal is created for the first time on the Sheep Ireland website it will be created with the breed "Unknown". To add/edit the breed of the animal select…
Sheep Industry Meeting
The meeting took place in the Killeshin Hotel in Portlaoise yesterday (Thursday 18th) with a wide range of industry representatives present (80 in total). There were update presentations by Teagasc,…