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Beef Gene Ireland Focus CH8334 – Corbaun Rory Learn More

Beef Gene Ireland Focus CH8334 - Corbaun Rory

This Longford bred bull is from the Corbaun herd of Liam Keogh. A lovely long bull with fantastic muscling and great power. Sired by Blelack Digger from a Clyth Diplomat dam, this bull is in the top 1% across all breeds for carcass weight (44.2kg).
How to take a Hair Samples for the genotyping process? Learn More

How to take a Hair Samples for the genotyping process?

When taking hair samples as part of the genotyping process, please take 40-60 root follicles from the tail end of the animal. The root follicles should also be clean and dry.  This will prevent hair samples required to be retested again, which would also delay the turnaround time of genomic results.  The below images will help herd-owners on how to correctly take hair samples for genotyping.

Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP)

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ICBF Database in Numbers

Genotypes
1 Million

There are over 6.1M Genotypes in the national database and counting. ICBF is the largest Beef Genomics database in the world.

SNPs
1 Billion

That’s ‘Billion’ with a ‘B’ (Over 218 times the population of China). SNPs are the most common type of genetic variation between animals.

Pieces of Data
1 Billion

There are over 2 Billion pieces of phenotypic (non genomic) data stored on the ICBF database. 

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