Happy Christmas to all readers of this Sheep Ireland Update. We would like to thank all LambPlus members, sheep breed societies, commercial sheep farmers and all industry stakeholders for their…

LambPlus Sign-Ups 2018 Over the past few weeks hundreds of LambPlus Sign-Up Forms have been received and processed. Once again, the number of flocks that have signed up for LambPlus…

CPT Ram Update All breeders have received a letter this week letting them know how their ram performed throughout the CPT. Also as part of our ongoing effort to try…

LambPlus Sign-Ups 2018 For any pedigree sheep breeders, the closing date for joining LambPlus for the 2018 season is today (1st December). Sheep Ireland has communicated this date to all…

LambPlus Regional Meetings Three LambPlus regional meetings took place this week in Mallow, Navan and Tuam. There are two remaining meetings, both taking place on Monday 27th November at 7:30pm…

UK Sheep Breeders Roundtable Conference Today, Sheep Ireland personnel are attending the biennial Sheep Breeders Roundtable which takes place this weekend in Nottingham. The theme for this year is ‘thinking…

Deadline for LambPlus Sign-ups 2018 Our LambPlus sign-up forms for 2018 have been circulated and we wish to remind breeders that the deadline for the receipt of the sign-up forms…

LambPlus Sign-up Forms 2018 We have begun to circulate our LambPlus sign-up forms this week and by next week all existing breeders and new society breeders should have received one.…

CPT Update Last Wednesday marked the final day of AI for our 2017 CPT program on Brian Nicholson’s farm in Johnstown Co. Kilkenny. During the course of the program 29…

Recording Matings Flocks that have completed their matings for the 2017/2018 season should now be thinking about recording this information on their Sheep Ireland account. For some societies it is…

CPT AI has begun The first 296 Central Progeny Test (CPT) ewes of 2017 are currently being artificially inseminated today (Friday 13th October). There is a further 1,900 ewes remaining…

CPT AI This week our CPT AI preparation continues. As of today 1,700 ewes out of the total 2,300 CPT ewes have been sponged. These sponges will be removed from…