- Project: Improving the genetic potential of hill ewes through crossbreeding
- Project: Developing easy-care systems of lowland sheep production
- Project: Developing breeding and management strategies to reduce lameness in the Northern Ireland sheep industry
- Project: Evaluation of the factors influencing rates of adoption of research in the Northern Ireland sheep industry
- Project: Development of sheep breeding strategies for sustainable sheep systems
- Investigation of the relationships between genotype, trace element status and gastrointestinal parasite infections in lambs and the development of nutritional and management strategies to increase lamb output from grazed grass.
- Development of beef and sheep systems for improved sustainability, biodiversity and delivery of ecosystem services within hill areas of Northern Ireland
- Evaluation of the factors relating to retention and performance of DARD approved cattle and sheep eartags in NI field conditions
- Review and pilot study to assess the accuracy and robustness of an EID sheep tag reading system at a commercial abattoir
- Effects of age, breed and diet type on methane emissions from replacement hill and lowland ewes (as part of the UK’s Agricultural GHG Research Platform project)
- Provision of a ewe recording service to the Northern Ireland sheep industry (Hillsborough Management Recording Scheme)
- Development of a field guide to lameness diagnosis and treatment in sheep
- Developing easy-care systems of lowland sheep production
- Developing the genetic potential of hill ewes through cross breeding
- Development of breeding strategies for sustainable sheep production systems in NI
- Developing breeding and management strategies to reduce lameness in the Northern Ireland sheep industry
- Investigation of the relationship between carcass characteristics and lean meat yield and meat quality from a range of sheep breeds.
Completed research projects