Welcome

This website has been developed to provide a single source of data for all AI Sires used in/on the North American Icelandic Sheep Flock.

The system contains a wealth of information and pictures supplied by Southram and is joined together with registration information from the CLRC, and breeder submitted photos and additional information and presented together in a way never before possible.

To get started, go to the  Flock Statistics page and start exploring. If you do not have a lkogin ID and password, and if you are a CLRC member and have Icelandic sheep registered to you, I can create an account for you. Without a login, you can only see a fraction of the information that is available. Please contact me for a free user account.

We are running on a new server as of 4/7/2009.

As of 4/7/2009 we are running on a new server on at a new datacenter. For you tech savy/curious folks: We have upgraded to IIS 7.0, and SQL Server 2008 on the Rackspace infrastructure. Please be patient if there are any glitches along the way, they should be resolved shorty.

As always, please let me know if you have suggestions for new features, or encounter any bugs - enjoy.

Background

This project began almost 2 1/2 years ago after I attended a Vaginal Artificial Insemination training in Rhinebeck, New York and met Mundi from the Southram AI station in Iceland who was conducting the seminar along with his partner.

At that training, Mundi graciously agreed to allow us to use photos and information for the Southram website and from the Southram catalogs; he even went as far as to dig up and forward me dozens and dozens of pages of old pictures and HTML from the previous versions of the Southram website that had information about Sires that were no longer used by SOuthram, but none-the-less had already become bred into the North American flock.

Some additional information

As you can tell from the banner logo on the top of this page, this website is a "BETA" version, or in other words, still undergoing testing and in some cases still being developed.

It may not be obvious by looking at the rather sparse menu structure, and many disabled links, but there is actually a tremendous amount of functionality already available in the system, and much more which has been purposefully disabled while undergoing testing.

Please feel free to use the website, and report problems or suggestions to me while I continue to enhance and debug the system.