With the lambing season almost ending, remember to genotype your stock rams to ensure your lambs receive their star ratings. Lambs born from a stock ram sire that is not…
The Central Progeny Test (CPT) farms’ lambing season is running very well and coming to an end on our two CPT flocks. All the lambing data is being recorded using…
These tables are designed to aid breeders in selecting the best time to weigh their LambPlus lambs. As part of the LambPlus programme breeders are asked to record at least 3…
The 150 day weight is an excellent indication of the Days to slaughter index. Lambs weighed between 121 to 180 days of age will count toward your 150 day weight…
The 100 day weight or wean weight are an excellent reflection of lambs growth rate. Lambs weighed between 66- 120 days of age will qualify for your 100 Day weight…
40 Day weights are a reflection of ewes milking ability. This data feeds back into the "daughter milk" subindex of the replacement index. Lambs weighed between 20-65 days of age…
There are a small % of marks in the DQI which are awarded to flocks who produce lambs from shared sires. Producing progeny from shared sires improves the level of…
Sheep Ireland recently hosted a Hill Sheep Industry meeting together with 17 Hill breeding groups, farm organizations, Teagasc, and other industry stakeholders. The purpose of the meeting was to plan…