The NSP/NISP Semen Archive year 4 (2007/2008)

The Worlds Largest Ram Semen Archive Wants your Rams

About the Archive   The 3 leading providers of Artificial Insemination in the UK (Innovis Edinburgh, Innovis Malvern and Artificial Insemination Services NI Ltd) together comprise ARK Consortium Ltd - the service provider for the NSP/NISP Semen Archive.   The Semen Archive has been introduced to store genetic material from scrapie susceptible rams that, over time, will be bred out of the National Flock as part of the National Scrapie Plan for Great Britain (NSP-GB) and the Northern Ireland Scrapie Plan (NSP-NI).   Semen is being collected from native British breeds and SAMB is working with Breed Societies and others to identify and nominate donor rams.   Breed Gallery  Below are some of the breeds that have had successful semen donations to date                                   Manx Loghtan                    Zwartble     Lleyn rams		What's New? This is the final year of collections for this, the World's  Largest Ram Semen Archive Collectively the archive has stored in excess of 470,000 doses of semen from over 70 breeds! In GB some breeds have already completed semen donations to their archives Bluefaced Leicester Charollais Texel Lleyn Scottish Blackface Shetland Ryeland Southdown Oxford Down Poll Dorset Hampshire Down The priorities for 2007/2008 will be to finish semen collections from mainstream breeds and collections from rams carrying the VRQ allele from non-mainstream breeds. Call a Breed Liaison Manager or the Semen Archive helpline to check if we still need rams from Your breed Your rams genotype Financial incentives still apply!  Breeders in GB and Northern Ireland are still entitled to receive £50 for each ram that successfully donates Transport is still provided free of charge and where applicable 100% of the disposal value reimbursed to breeders Click here to see the latest leaflet Click here to see the latest article