Weekly Update: 12/05/17

Sheep Ireland Board Meeting The Sheep Ireland Board Meeting and AGM took place on Friday 5th May. Important topics that were discussed included the following; CPT progress to date, and…

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Weekly Update: 21/04/17

Sheep Industry Meeting Report On Tuesday 11th April a Sheep Industry Meeting took place in Teagasc Athenry. The meeting was very well attended by a wide cross section of the…

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Weekly Update: 07/04/17

Sheep Ireland April Board Meeting A meeting of the Sheep Ireland Board of representatives met yesterday (Thursday 6th April). A number of important issues were discussed on the day including;…

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Weekly Update: 31/03/17

Upcoming Meetings Next Thursday 6th April a meeting of the Sheep Ireland Board of representatives will be held. For users of Sheep Ireland this is a regular opportunity to be…

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Weekly Update: 24/03/17

LambPlus Data Recording The end of April is the deadline by which pedigree ram breeders must enter their flocks lambing data onto the Sheep Ireland database. Any lambs entered after…

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OVIGEN Parentage Reports

Another first for Irish sheep genetic improvement Over the past number of weeks Sheep Ireland have been circulating Parentage Verification results to pedigree ram breeders that participated in the OVIGEN…

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Weekly Update: 10/02/17

OVIGEN Parentage Reports This week the first DNA parentage verification reports were circulated to some pedigree sheep breeders that agreed to participate in the OVIGEN sheep genomics research project. There…

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