Sheep
Indoor lamb finishing – steps to make it a success
Sheep Specialist, Michael Gottstein joins Ciaran Lynch on this week’s OviCast podcast to discuss the essential elements of successfully finishing lambs indoors.
25 November 2025
Managing rams after mating: Protecting a more expensive asset
Ram purchase costs have risen this year and every extra season you get from a ram significantly reduces the cost per lamb sired. In this article, Teagasc Sheep Specialist, Ciaran Lynch shares some key management guidance to minimise ram losses and extend working life.
25 November 2025
A November grass update for sheep farmers
Grass10 Advisor, Nikki Kennedy is on this week’s OviCast to discuss key grazing management tips for the weeks ahead.
22 November 2025
Mating management and housing finishing lambs
Teagasc Sheep Specialist, Ciaran Lynch shares some key advice on managing rams during the latter stage of the breeding season and post mating, and he shares some key considerations when housing finishing lambs.
18 November 2025
Management tips as the breeding season enters the final phase
Teagasc Advisor, Tom Coll is on this episode of the OviCast podcast with some practical management tips as the breeding season draws to a close.
11 November 2025
Strengthening the understanding of hill grazing
A new project began this year, funded by Teagasc and in collaboration with SRUC (Scotland), investigating the effects of summer hill grazing on ewe and lamb performance, Michael Dever, Teagasc Walsh Scholar, fills us in on the study and what it hopes to achieve.
11 November 2025
OviCast: Practical tips for grazing forage crops
Teagasc Advisor, James Doran discusses the practicalities of grazing forage crops on this episode of the OviCast.
28 October 2025
Weighing up the options with store lambs
Have you lambs remaining or are in the market for stores, Sheep Specialist at Teagasc, Damian Costello writes on store lamb performance, feeding strategies and marketing options.
28 October 2025
LESS and protected urea use on Irish farms
Representative of almost 88,000 dairy, beef, sheep and tillage farms nationally, the recently published suite of National Farm Survey (NFS) enterprise factsheets shed light on the levels of protected urea and Low Emission Slurry Spreading (LESS) use on Irish farms last year.
22 October 2025
October grass: A delicate balancing act
For sheep farmers, October is a critical month for grassland management. Get it right and you’ll have sufficient supplies of grass for when ewes and lambs return to pasture next spring; get it wrong and you’ll end up feeding more meal/silage or hampering ewe performance during the breeding season.
21 October 2025