At the recent Sheep Breeders Round Table conference in Derbyshire, England, Sheep Irelands Alan Bohan presented a poster on the work that has been done on Across-breed evaluations. The poster describes how  the across breed evaluation can compare animals regardless…

Sheep Ireland have been circulated to and existing breeders this week. If you are a new member to LambPlus 2020 (this sign up is now out of date contact us on the info below to obtain a revised sign-up). Existing…

Sheep Ireland attended the Sheep Breeders Round Table which was held on Friday 15th to Sunday 17th November 2019, near East Midlands Airport, Derbyshire, England. The event was well attended by farmers, breeders, researchers, vets and many industry representatives. Sheep Ireland…

Sheep Ireland have launched a new pregnancy scanning report following the recent update to the DQI with addition of pregnancy scanning now accounting for a percentage of a LambPlus breeders overall DQI. This report is very useful in determining how…

Sheep Ireland have launched a new weight report that is available for all members of the LambPlus Program. This report is very useful in determining your slowest and fastest growing lambs from each other. Once you log into your Sheep…

Sheep Ireland have launched a new health report that is available for all members of the LambPlus Program. This report is very useful in determining the efficiency of your flock, inform and update you on current level of performance according…

Sheep Ireland in conjunction with Teagasc are facilitating Ovidata, which is a European Innovation Partnership project assessing the use of genomic technologies for Irish sheep farmers.  With year one now over, it has been a successful one in terms of…

Sheep Ireland developed the LambPlus App over one year ago and have spent countless hours implementing and incorporating feedback from users to improve the user ability of the application. Sheep Ireland encourages users to give as much feedback as possible…

CPT Artificial Insemination (AI)  is in full swing this week with fresh semen from rams LambPlus breeders across the country being used. Check out Sheep Ireland in action on CPT flocks this week in the below gallery. To find out…

CPT Sponging The purpose of the CPT sponging is to synchronise ewes oestrus cycle for the day of AI. All CPT ewes are weighed, body condition scored , lameness recorded, dag scored and mastitis recorded, this is all recorded​ using…

Sheep Ireland LambPlus breeders are near the beginning of the mating season, which is an ideal time to record their ewe mature weights. Ewes will be indoors at some stage in preparation for the breeding season ahead so what better…