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Sustainable Sheep – Optimising Forage-Based Systems

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Inishturk Suite
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Overview

Sponsored by Meat Promotion Wales (HCC)

Session Sponsor & Speakers

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Session Sponsored by Meat Promotion Wales (HCC)

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Dr Heather McCalman
Research and Development and Sustainability Executive
Hybu Cig Cymru Meat Promotion Wales

Research and Development at HCC to underpin marketing of red meat from Wales as a sustainable and essential food source for the human diet.

1:35 PM - 1:50 PM

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Prof Tommy Boland
Prof Of Sheep Production
University College Dublin

Impact of prolific breed type on ewe and lamb performance, production efficiency and carcass output in a pasture-based sheep meat production system

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Dr Omar Cristobal Carballo
Senior Scientific Officer (Ruminant Nutrition Unit)
Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI)

Effects of grazing contrasting grass swards on lambs’ performance and an approach to calculate their grass intake

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Ms Rebecca Rooney
Walsh Scholar
Teagasc

Does the inclusion of white clover or plantain to a perennial ryegrass sward enhance lamb performance during the post-weaning period?

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Mr Numan Sharif
Walsh Scholar
Teagasc

Comparison of nonlinear functions to model the growth profiles of female lowland sheep

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Ms Sarah Woodmartin
Research Officer
Teagasc Athenry

The effect of sward type on growth performance, enteric methane output and the rumen microbiome in lambs during the post-weaning period

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Dr Frank Campion
Researcher
Teagasc

Performance characteristics of Scottish Blackface and Texel x Scottish Blackface lambs offered forage brassica, perennial ryegrass or cereal based concentrate diets

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Chair

Aurélie Aubry
Senior Scientific Officer
Agri-food And Biosciences Institute

Christina Marley
Reader Sustainable Grassland Systems
IBERS, Aberystwyth University

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