The inaugural Lambplus class at the NSBA Red Mills Championships 2019 took place on Saturday 8th June. The purpose of this class was to showcase 5 star rams to potential…
This year in conjunction with Teagasc, Sheep Ireland will be holding breeding evening workshops throughout Ireland. This is the first time that these events will specifically cater for commercial farmers…
Muscle and fat scanning has well and truly taken off for the 2019 scanning season with 50 plus flocks being scanned so far. Once Sheep Ireland received notice where breeders…
Sheep Ireland will be attending the National Sheep Breeders Association (NSBA) Red Mills Sheep Championships which takes place this Saturday 8th June 2019. Sheep Ireland proudly sponsors this event and…
This is to promote the practice of parentage verification and to reward the breeders that do so. If a breeder parentage verifies all the lambs they have entered into the…
Once you have ordered your genotype (click here to find out how to order genotypes), the video below illustrates the steps to take when checking for the parentage results of…
Please Text SCANNING by TODAY Friday 24th May to guarantee being Muscle and Fat Scanned this year. What are the Benefits of Scanning? Ultrasound scanning information is used as a…
Last week Sheep Ireland visited some of the later lambing CPT flocks to capture some 40 day weights. While visiting Brian Nicholson's farm in County Kilkenny, weights as well as…
On Monday (29th April), Sheep Ireland held their latest sheep industry meeting. A crowd of 80 stakeholders from across the industry were in attendance, and lots of great discussion from…
Dr Aine O'Brien presented the outcomes of the OviGen project at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. To view…
Sheep Ireland's Eamon Wall presented the Ovidata project at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. The synopsis of Eamon's…
Dr Theirry Pabiou presented the relevant updates to the genetic evaluations at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. The…