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Ultrasound Muscle & Fat Scanning 2019
Please Text SCANNING by TODAY Friday 24th May to guarantee being Muscle and Fat Scanned this year. What are the Benefits of Scanning? Ultrasound scanning information is used as a very good predictor of carcass confirmation and fat levels in…
CPT 40 Day Weights
Last week Sheep Ireland visited some of the later lambing CPT flocks to capture some 40 day weights. While visiting Brian Nicholson's farm in County Kilkenny, weights as well as body condition scores, dag scores and any incidences of lameness…
Flock Visits - Where we are today
David Coen outlined where Sheep Ireland currently stand concerning LambPlus flock visits at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. View David's presentation can be found here. It is David's…
New Research in Sheep Breeding
Fiona McGovern outlined some of the research to be carried out over the next 2-3 years in relation to Sheep breeding at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. The…
Review of a very positive Sheep Ireland industry meeting
On Monday (29th April), Sheep Ireland held their latest sheep industry meeting. A crowd of 80 stakeholders from across the industry were in attendance, and lots of great discussion from the floor. The session was chaired by Donagh Berry (Teagasc).…
Genotyping Handling, Timeline & Cost
Sheep Ireland’s Ciara Long presented the Ovidata genotyping process at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. The synopsis of Ciara's presentation on the day are outlined below. View Ciara's…
Parentage being changed & Scrapie genotyping available
Noirin McHugh presented an update on parentage predictions and scrapie at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. The synopsis of Noirin's presentation on the day are outlined below. View…
The Impact of the programme improvements
At the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held in Tullamore on Monday (April 29th), Sheep Ireland's Kevin McDermott explained the Impact that these Improvements to the Genetic Evaluation would have. View the full presentation here. At the beginning he stated “So…
OviGen – The Outcomes
Dr Aine O'Brien presented the outcomes of the OviGen project at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. To view Aine's full presentation click here. The objective of the OviGen…
OviData – EIP Project - Eamon Wall speaking at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting
Sheep Ireland's Eamon Wall presented the Ovidata project at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. The synopsis of Eamon's presentation on the day are outlined below. To view Eamon's…
Carcass data and Across-breed now a reality in the Sheep Ireland Genetic Evaluations
Dr Theirry Pabiou presented the relevant updates to the genetic evaluations at the Sheep Ireland Industry Meeting held on Monday 29th April 2019 in Tullamore Court Hotel, County Offaly. The reason we update Genetic evaluations is so that we can…
The Importance of Recording Ewe Lambs as Not Mated
Sheep Ireland receive a volume of queries regarding recording ewe lambs that were not put to the ram. It is very important to account for ewe lambs within a flock as they may be seen to be inactive within the…
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