Calf Registrations for 2022 pass 2 Million mark
With calving season coming to an end, total calf births registered in 2022 have now passed 2 million calves as of this week. (more…)
With calving season coming to an end, total calf births registered in 2022 have now passed 2 million calves as of this week. (more…)
The rate of genetic gain in EBI has accelerated rapidly over the last number of years, propelled mainly by two important initiatives, the launch of the Dairy Gene Ireland breeding programme in 2005 and the introduction of genomic selection in 2009. (more…)
Reports containing the latest co-op data are now available online and are being posted to farmers over the coming week. These reports include the calving information taken from the 2021 Dairy Calving Report.
In March 2022, new dairy beef mating’s were incorporated into Sire Advice as a new additional feature to the main breeding tool. This has been a collaborative effort between ICBF and Teagasc (more…)
The latest HerdPlus EBI reports have been generated and are now available to view online. (more…)
The Inbreeding Checker is breeding application, that can be found under ‘Applications’ in the HerdPlus menu. As the name suggests, the Inbreeding checker allows herd owners to check up to 10 bulls at a time with their cows and heifers. (more…)
Sire Advice allows the user to select bulls they wish to use for the breeding season and the mating program will match these bulls to cows to maximize EBI, reduce the variation between milk and fertility and avoid inbreeding. This Spring, ICBF has developed new dairy beef mating options in conjunction with Teagasc. (more…)