Weekly Update: 03/07/2015
Premier Sale prepartions This week Sheep Ireland has recieved alot of queries from breeders in relation to upcoming premier sales and evaluation data for sale catalogues. Each year there is…
Weekly Update: 26/06/2015
Ultrasound Scanning 2015 A large number of flocks continue to be visited for Ovigen (12 flocks) and Ultrasound scanning (30 flocks) purposes each week. Visits to some individual LambPlus flocks…
Weekly Update: 19/06/2015
Sheep 2015 Sheep Ireland are on site in Teagasc Athenry today (Fri 19th) in preparation for tomorrows major sheep event. There will be a range of attractions to cater for…
Weekly Update: 12/06/2015
Sheep 2015 - Athenry Sat 20th June We are now in the home straight in terms of preparations for this major event for the Irish sheep industry. This weeks Irish…
Weekly Update: 05/06/2015
Ovigen Update Yesterday (Thurs 4th) we circulated an update letter to all LambPlus breeders. To date we have visited almost 100 breeder’s flocks. We have collected DNA samples from just over…
Weekly Update: 29/05/2015
Flock data reminders For the past number of weeks we have been contacting breeders on an individual basis in relation to their lambing and weight data entered thus far in…
One of Sheep Ireland's experienced technicians scanning a lamb for muscle and fat depth
Weekly Update: 22/05/2015
Ultrasound Scanning for Muscle and Backfat 2015 This scanning data remains a vital yet optional component of the LambPlus performance recording scheme. Ultrasound scanning is being used in our €uroStar…
Weekly Update: 15/05/2015
2015 €uro-Star Evaluations In recent weeks a number of breeders have been requesting that Sheep Ireland publicise an early run of genetic evaluations for 2015 born sheep. While we have…
Weekly Update: 08/05/2015
Initial LambPlus Results for 2015 As the deadline for entering lambs before the April 30th deadline in order to be in with a chance of receiving €uroStars for lambs in…
Weekly Update: 01/05/2015
Lambing data entry deadline has passed The deadline for entry of lambing data has passed as of yesterday April 30th . The Irish Texel society deadline for birth notifying their pedigree lambs…
Weekly Update: 24/04/2015
LambPlus data deadline (April 30th) We are in the final week for submitting lambing data with the deadline of April 30th only 6 days away. As a result the office…
Weekly Update: 17/04/2015
CIOC 2015 - Carrefour International Ovin/Caprin (International forum on sheep and goats) This event took place in Toulouse, France last week on April 8th & 9th. Sheep Ireland was represented…