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Breeding Week - Six Point Breeding Plan

New dairy breeding guidelines have been sent to herd owners for Spring 2021 season. The guidelines have been developed by a Department of Agriculture working group involving key stakeholders such as the Department of Agriculture, Teagasc, ICBF and the broader industry. The guidelines include six simple steps which if followed will ensure the continued improvement of your dairy herd into the future. In this short clip, Andrew Cromie of ICBF outlines these six steps.

Breeding Week - Using teams of bulls equally

Invariably bulls are only proven for milk traits and not for female fertility traits which remains a key issue for dairy farmers. If you want to improve fertility and other traits related to fitness on your farm then you need to use teams of bulls. In this short clip, Margaret Kelleher from ICBF speaks about when planning what bulls to use this breeding season, also plan how to use each bull equally across your herd.

Upcoming Improvements

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Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP)

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CATTLE WEIGHING SCALES RENTAL SERVICE

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ICBF Database in Numbers

1 Million
Genotypes

There are over 4M Genotypes in the national database and counting. ICBF is the largest Beef Genomics database in the world.

1 Billion
SNPs

That’s ‘Billion’ with a ‘B’ (Over 80 times the population of China). SNPs are the most common type of genetic variation between animals.

1 Billion
Pieces of Data

There are over 1 Billion pieces of phenotypic (non genomic) data stored on the ICBF database. 

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