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Breeding for €uro-Stars

This article is taken from the latest 'ICBF Beef Breeding Journal' and it gives guidelines as to what pedigree beef breeders in Ireland need to do to maximise the €uro-Stars of their pedigree cattle.

Bull Nostalgia: Kilkelly Defender

Kilkelly Defender (KKD) was an Angus bull that was born on the 10th of April 1990. He was bred by Liam O'Grady, Kilkelly, Co.Mayo. His semen was marketed by Dovea Genetics.

Tully - 40 years old!

This article is taken from the latest 'ICBF Beef Breeding Journal' and it explains how performance recording has evolved at the National Bull Performance Test Centre at Tully since its doors opened for the first time in 1974.

Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP)

Click here for more details on the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme

CATTLE WEIGHING SCALES RENTAL SERVICE

Click here for more information on cattle weighing services.

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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