The ICBF ‘Animal Search’ facility allows ICBF users to search for male and female animals in HerdPlus/BDGP herds. (more…)

HerdPlus is ICBF’s information service which provides herd-owners with performance data which can be used to increase on-farm profit.

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We are delighted to introduce our new ICBF Web Application mobile app. This new app will now allow HerdPlus herd-owners quick access to their HerdPlus accounts.Recording events and viewing animal profiles has never been so easy. (more…)

We are delighted to present you with the latest list of dairy bulls that have been selected for the Spring Dairy Gene Ireland program (more…)

Table 1: Origin, year of first importation & current numbers of the main beef breeds in Ireland (more…)

Beef HerdPlus is a tool that can benefit everyone no matter what your breeding goals are. The breeding and performance information that herd-owners receive through Beef HerdPlus includes the following;

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From November 2016, as part of an EU wide change, Ireland have changed it’s tag numbering system. These changes now make Irish tag numbers compatible with the Electronic Identification (EID) system. (more…)

Some of the calves from the 2015 Gene Ireland beef bulls are currently being born on farms. Here are some of Ewdenvale Ivor’s first progeny. (more…)

The IDB SNP chip has been used for nearly all of Ireland’s cattle genotyping and was developed by ICBF and its research collaborators, Teagasc etc., for our farmers to lower the cost of parentage verification and contribute to genetic breeding values. (more…)