Reminder LambPlus Deadline The deadline for entering lambing information onto the system is Monday April 30th, after this date any lambs entered will not receive genetic evaluations in 2018 but…

Reminder Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting Takes place next Wednesday 18th April and kicks off at 10.45am. It will focus on the main research involved in the national sheep breeding improvement…

LambPlus Deadline The deadline for pedigree ram breeders to enter lambing information onto the database is fast approaching. After the 30th April any lambsentered onto the Sheep Ireland database will…

Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting Wednesday April 18th The industry meeting will focus in on the main research that has been done and currently underway in relation to Sheep breeding in…

CPT Lambing is now coming to an end We are approaching the end of our CPT lambing period for 2018, with just Brian Nicholson currently lambing the last of his…

CPT Lambing Lambing has now kicked off on our 4th CPT flock and is starting to wind down on our other 3 flocks. So far, records for over 2,200 lambs…

CPT Lambing CPT lambing has now commenced on 3 out of our 4 CPT flocks. We collect large amounts of data on ewes and lambs at this time, which is…

European Innovation Partnership for Agriculture Productivity and Sustainability This week Sheep Ireland attended a workshop on EIP-AGRI (European Innovation Partnership for Agriculture Productivity and Sustainability). EIP-AGRI will fund a large…

Teagasc National Hill Conference The Hill conference took place in Westport on Wednesday. Frank Campion spoke about the potential benefit of using performance recorded rams in the years to come.…

UCD Agriculture Careers Day This week Sheep Ireland and ICBF attended the annual UCD Agriculture Careers Day. This event is a great opportunity for 4th year Agricultural Students to meet…

Texel Sire Genotyping Project This is an exciting new phase for the Irish Texel Sheep Society. By having these sires genotyped this will allow breeders to sire verify any lamb…

Reminder to record Lambing Information As stated previously we are making small changes to the calculation of our DQI percentage this year. Breeders are advised to submit their lambing information…