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Replacement heifers should have a minimum target liveweight to meet before the breeding season starts. This improves conception rates and reduces issues at calving time.
With a relatively positive forecast, flocks which are lambing should take every opportunity to get animals turned out to reduce workload, pressure on housing and enhance hygiene standards.
The group which was formed during the Irish Civil War has survived many turbulent times and has been re-energised this year by the formation of the Galway Wool Co-op.
The sale will include in the region of 300 ewe lambs and 100 ewe hoggets from a number of breed crosses and some three quarter and pure bred non-registered sheep.
The top ewe hoggets sold from €200 to €250, while there was also keen demand for tight supplies of heavy fleshed lambs, with lots weighing upwards of 50kg selling from €138 to a top of €150.
Sheep numbers on the peninsula have recovered strongly and an entry of close to 4,000 sheep for the Cooley Sheep Breeders' annual sale is testament to the resilience of farmers.