Weekly Update: 20/05/16
Are you interested in Scanning this year? If you wish to have your flock scanned for Muscle and Fat depth this year please TEXT the word SCANNING to 089 4577665…
Are you interested in Scanning this year? If you wish to have your flock scanned for Muscle and Fat depth this year please TEXT the word SCANNING to 089 4577665…
Ultrasound Muscle and Backfat Scanning Another scanning season is about to begin again soon. The first flocks scanned will be some early lambing Vendeen breeders who tend to lamb down…
Sheep Ireland AGM 5th May The AGM on Thursday adopted the 2015 audited accounts, and approved the appointment of Ernst and Young as auditors for 2016. Sheep Ireland Board Meeting…
LambPlus Deadline (30th April) Tomorrow (Saturday) is the cut-off point - after this date any lamb entered on the database will not receive €uro-Star evaluations for the year, this has…
LambPlus Deadline We are in the final week for submitting lambing data with the deadline of 30th April only 8 days away. As each year passes breeders become more familiar…
Continued Progress with OVIGEN At this point almost 7,000 genotypes are now returned from the lab for the pedigree sheep involved in OVIGEN. There are still quite a number of…
LambPlus Ram Sale Reminder The date for the LambPlus multibreed ram sale is set for Saturday 20th August in Tullamore mart, Co. Offaly. This sale has been a very successful…
Ovigen DNA Collection Update The first major phase of the Ovigen project will be coming to an end next week when the final flocks will be visited for DNA collection.…
CPT Lambing almost finished The final AI’d ewes are now lambing down on the flocks of UCD (Lyons Estate) and Brian Nicholson (Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny). The other CPT flocks have…
CPT Lambing The CPT lambing is one of the most important times of the year in the Sheep Ireland calendar and each year we try to improve the quality and…
CPT Lambing 2016 The first CPT lambs are beginning to hit the ground now. We are still in the very early stages of lambing with just 40 ewes lambed as…
LambPlus A text has been circulated to all LambPlus breeders reminding them about the importance of recording any outstanding lambing information and in some cases weights. The sooner lambs are…