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Reminder – Not too late to run Dairy Sire Advice Learn More

Reminder - Not too late to run Dairy Sire Advice

Sire Advice allows the user to select bulls they wish to use for the breeding season and the mating program will match these bulls to cows to maximize EBI,  reduce the variation between milk and fertility and avoid inbreeding. This Spring, ICBF has developed new dairy beef mating options in conjunction with Teagasc.
Why Use the Dairy Beef Index (DBI)? Learn More

Why Use the Dairy Beef Index (DBI)?

Using a bull only for his ‘easy calving’ or ‘short gestation’ attributes can result in lighter carcasses. However, incorporating several traits simultaneously into selection decisions using an overall index (i.e., the Dairy Beef Index; DBI) can produce more balanced cattle with more favourable economic returns.

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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