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Sheep Trends: hogget quotes rebound by 20c/kg
Darren Carty
Opening prices have increased to €8.80/kg to €8.90/kg for quality assured hoggets, with an increasing number of producers securing upwards of €9/kg.
Sheep Trends: hogget quotes rebound by 20c/kg
Green light for hill sheep breeding funding
26 March 2025 Breeding & health
Green light for hill sheep breeding funding
Funding of €650,000 has been awarded for Oviflock – a project aiming to lay the foundation for genetic improvement in the Irish hill sheep flock.
Donegal Blackface Sheepbreeders Association secretary steps down after 44 years
19 March 2025 Breeding & health
Donegal Blackface Sheepbreeders Association secretary steps down after 44 years
Rachel Gallagher reports from the Donegal Blackface Sheepbreeders Association AGM.
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Connemara Mayo Blackface Breeders Group spring sale tops at €320
Rachel Gallagher reports on the recent Connemara Mayo Blackface Breeders Group spring sale held in Burke’s Livestock Mart, Maam Cross.
14 March 2025 Breeding & health
Blue Texel breed slotted perfectly to busy Farmview flock
This week, Rachel Gallagher was in Donegal to visit the Farmview Blue Texel flock.
12 March 2025 Breeding & health
Midlock flock tops the Lanark Blackface in-lamb female sale
Rachel Gallagher reports on the recent Blackface female show and sale held in Lawrie and Symington, Auction Market, Lanark.
5 March 2025 Breeding & health
Investigating unexplained lamb losses in Scottish hill flocks
Losses of lambs aged between six to eight weeks as well as those aged between four and six months were recorded at a high average figure of 18.6%. Darren Carty writes.
26 February 2025 Animal Health
The importance of paying attention to anthelmintic resistance on your farm
While not an exciting topic, farmers cannot afford to ignore the risk of anthelmintic resistance and should utilise faecal egg counts in their parasite control programme, UCD’s Amanda Lawlor writes.
26 February 2025 Animal Health
McHugh set to host inaugural timed auction of in-lamb Cheviot females
Rachel Gallagher talks with the McHugh family ahead of their upcoming online timed auction of Cheviot females.
26 February 2025 Breeding & health
Tir Conaill Blackface female sale tops at €3,000
Rachel Gallagher reports from Milford Mart for the Tir Conaill Blackface Sheepbreeders Association 13th annual female show and sale.
24 February 2025 Breeding & health
€3,400 tops prices achieved in South of Ireland Lanark sale
There was a lot of interest in the recent South of Ireland Lanark breeders online timed auction of in-lamb Lanark females.
20 February 2025 Breeding & health
Kirkby Stephen Swaledale in lamb sale tops at 5,000gns
Rachel Gallagher reports on the recent in-lamb Swaledale sale held in Kirkby Stephen Auction Mart, Cumbria, England.
19 February 2025 Breeding & health