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 is by no means the ‘finished article’, but we can only make progress through active engagement with the countries pedigree ram breeders and commercial farmers.
A number of changes will be implemented to the LambPlus service in 2016 as a result of both farmer and breeder feedback and these will be presented at each meeting.
Sheep Ireland will also be demonstrating the new website screens at each meeting. The new screens are designed to be more user friendly and therefore will help to increase the quantity and quality of the data recorded.
| Meeting Date | Location | Venue | Time of Meeting |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11th November | Mallow | Hibernian Hotel | 7:30pm |
| 12th November | Kilkenny | New Park Hotel | 7:30pm |
| 16th November | Ballybofey | Jacksons Hotel | 7:30pm |
| 17th November | Navan | Newgrange Hotel | 7:30pm |
| 18th November | Tuam | Ard Rí House Hotel | 7:30pm |
CPT AI Programme
The CPT AI programme concluded on Tuesday, October 20th on the farm of Brian Nicholson, Co Kilkenny. Brian is also a regular contributor to the Irish Farmers Journal. This week there is a large article detailing activities on his farm over the past two weeks, regarding the CPT programme.
You can watch a video that was created by the Irish Farmers Journal here. In this video, a step by step explaination is given by Veterinarian Ronan Gallagher, detailing the procedure needed when AI’ing sheep on the CPT flocks.