Performance recording & genetic evaluation for the New Zealand sheep industry

SIL is a tool for both ram breeders and ram buyers. SIL is part of Beef+Lamb New Zealand, funded partly from sheepmeat levies and partly from fees charged to breeders.

This web site is here to help ram breeders and buyers make the most of SIL. SIL welcomes any feedback you have about this website - just use the "Contact us" link to the left on your screen.
 

  

 
  • SIL-ACE- SIL's largest across flock evaluation underpins several online tools & resources
 
  • eSearch FlockFinder                              A SIL ram buyers tool - find ram breeding flocks that are recording performance for traits you want to improve
 
  • eSearch RamFinder  *** UNDER TEST ***  
    A SIL ram breeders tool - powerful search engine that allows users familiar with SIL system to specify wide range of criteria to search for individual animals

 



Dag Score evaluation revised     - 23/9/2011
SIL has revised the dag score evaluation to fix probelms encountered with data in some flocks ***NEW***  read more

New Breeder Search tool released     - 6/9/2011
A new tool, BreederFinder, has been released *** NEW *** ... read more

GeneTalk archive updated to Sep-2011     - 1/9/2011
SIL has updated the archive of GeneTalk and other rural press articles *** NEW *** ... read more

Sheep50k breeding values available     - 12/5/2011
 IMPORTANT UPDATE  about Pfizer Animal Genetics Sheep50k BVs on SIL ... read more

Why some animals dropped in index after May 2010     - 22/12/2010
Some animals dropped in index when evaluations of Growth & Meat changed ... read more

Coding lamb losses in storms     - 18/11/2010
SIL guidelines on what to do about coding lamb losses in severe storms  ... read more