LambPlus Lambing Notebooks 2017 This week we began posting out the LambPlus lambing notebooks. This notebook is an invaluable tool for sheep breeders to capture the required performance data on…

LambPlus Membership 2017 The number of breeders that have signed up for the upcoming performance recording season has grown yet again which is hugely encouraging. All breeds involved with us…

LambPlus Sign-Ups 2017 The LambPlus sign-up deadline passed yesterday (Thursday 1 st December). The number of breeders that have signed up for the 2017 season looks to be on a…

Sheep Ireland Board Meeting A meeting of the Sheep Ireland Board of representatives took place yesterday (Thursday 24th). At this meeting a number of topics were discussed including; LambPlus membership…

Agricultural college visits This week Sheep Ireland visited Clonakilty Agricultural College. This visit was part of our effort to engage with and visit all agricultural education facilities each year. Educating…

LambPlus 2017 LambPlus sign-up forms are coming into the office now in large numbers and hopefully this continues up to the sign-up deadline of Thursday 1st December. We have written…

CPT AI complete The final day of AI took place this Tuesday on the farm of Brian Nicholson, Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny. All in all, the AI programme went extremely well…

CPT AI Progress Well As of today (Friday 21st) we have artificially inseminated 1,800 ewes as part of the 2016 CPT programme. The AI has gone very well. In general…

CPT AI has begun The first 299 Central Progeny Test (CPT) ewes of 2016 are currently being artificially inseminated today (Friday 14th). There is a further 2,100 ewes remaining to…

2016 CPT Breeding Programme This week we have been busy preparing for the Central Progeny Test (CPT) AI. Four flocks have now been sponged and the remaining flocks will be…

2016 CPT breeding programme underway Today (Friday 30th) is the beginning of the CPT breeding programme with sponging of ewes taking place on the farm of James Naper, Oldcastle, Co.…