Weekly Update: 06/11/2015

CPT mating 2015 Early next week all breeders that submitted rams for use in the 2015 Central Progeny Test will receive reports on how their ram performed during AI -…

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Weekly Update: 30/10/2015

2016 LambPlus membership Today Sheep Ireland are posting 2016 LambPlus sign-up forms. The deadline to return sign-up forms is Tuesday 1st December. The number of breeders joining the programme has…

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Weekly Update: 23/10/2015

LambPlus Regional Meetings The annual LambPlus regional meetings have been set for 2015 (Dates and venues below). A strong attendance is critical at these meetings. The current sheep breed improvement…

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Weekly Update: 02/10/2015

STAP Today marks the deadline for STAP task completion which means there is a huge amount of activity in the Sheep Ireland office. For STAP purposes in 2015 the €uro-Star…

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Weekly Update: 18/09/2015

Meeting with breed society representatives This week Sheep Ireland held their regular board meeting. In advance of this board meeting, we invited the representatives of all sheep breed societies to…

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Weekly Update: 11/09/2015

Central Progeny Test (CPT) 2015 Plans for this year’s CPT are progressing rapidly. We are currently assembling our ram list for the AI programme and have a full panel of…

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Weekly Update: 04/09/2015

A ram report has been launched for all LambPlus members. This report displays all the rams used in the flock for the previous 6 years. For these rams the following…

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Weekly Update: 28/08/15

The Launch of the Data Quality Index The Data Quality Index (DQI) is a new index that rates flocks based on the quality and quantity of the data recorded on…

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