Hill ram genotyping and sales

<p>David Coen from Sheep Ireland is on this week’s OviCast to talk about progress in breeding in the hill sector. </p><p>David discusses the impact hill genetics has on the national flock, SIS scheme and ram eligibility.  </p><p>We discuss the work by the 17 breeding groups over the past year to get rams genotyped and the impact this has had on developing flock books. </p><p>Finally we finish up with David discussing how breeders can build on this going forwards to improve genetic improvement in hill flocks. </p><p>Some links discussed in this week’s episode to search for potential rams or to sign up to Sheep Ireland are:</p><p>Ram Search:</p><p><a href="https://scanner.topsec.com/?d=1452&amp;r=show&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fappsh.sheep.ie%2Fram-search&amp;t=c5432e895ad3d82cc872127ac1217525e0ded573">https://appsh.sheep.ie/ram-search<br></a><br></p><p>Ram sales/catalogues:</p><p><a href="https://scanner.topsec.com/?d=1452&amp;r=show&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sheep.ie%2F%3Fpage_id%3D29&amp;t=186e186d5804c07b7aac10a49a1bf396128867ce">https://www.sheep.ie/?page_id=29<br></a><br></p><p>Sign up online form:</p><p><a href="https://scanner.topsec.com/?d=1452&amp;r=show&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fpages%2Fresponsepage.aspx%3Fid%3DAH5m37xZikKh2Tgra-Oid02OFzIK2SJKuUbHvUCuGqJURVpMT1ZLRU02RkxPTDdGTkhFRFNKNFpLTS4u&amp;t=2ab50ffdc5f79f32ecd915d2128157210017f2c4">https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=AH5m37xZikKh2Tgra-Oid02OFzIK2SJKuUbHvUCuGqJURVpMT1ZLRU02RkxPTDdGTkhFRFNKNFpLTS4u<br></a><br></p><p>For more episodes from the OviCast podcast, visit the show page at:<br><a href="https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/sheep/ovicast-sheep-podcast">https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/sheep/ovicast-sheep-podcast</a></p>