Sheep Ireland (www.sheep.ie) continued to make excellent progress in 2016, with strong leadership from its Chairman James Murphy and a strong development team operating under the stewardship of Eamon Wall.…
Firstly, Happy Christmas to all readers of this Sheep Ireland Update. We would like to thank all LambPlus members, sheep breed societies, commercial sheep farmers and all industry stakeholders for…
LambPlus Lambing Notebooks 2017 This week we began posting out the LambPlus lambing notebooks. This notebook is an invaluable tool for sheep breeders to capture the required performance data on…
LambPlus Membership 2017 The number of breeders that have signed up for the upcoming performance recording season has grown yet again which is hugely encouraging. All breeds involved with us…
Case Study: Richard Moore, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny; Columbkille Flock Richard has been breeding Suffolk sheep all his life, his flock was established in 1958 by his father and has been…
LambPlus Sign-Ups 2017 The LambPlus sign-up deadline passed yesterday (Thursday 1 st December). The number of breeders that have signed up for the 2017 season looks to be on a…
LambPlus 2017 LambPlus sign-up forms are coming into the office now in large numbers and hopefully this continues up to the sign-up deadline of Thursday 1st December. We have written…
Sheep Ireland Flockbook Management Screens Introduction Sheep Ireland have designed a sophisticated flockbook management system which is currently being used by the majority of Irish sheep breed societies to maintain…