membership

How can a producer join NSIP?

Simple. A producer submits an Enrollment Form to the Breed Association Office or Breed Data Coordinator. This Enrollment Form is a very easy-to-fill-out form that asks a few questions about contact information, breed, and flock size.  All purebred producers with registered animals can join NSIP. Calculation of across-flock EPDs, however, is dependent on the establishment of good across-flock genetic linkages. NSIP is currently working closely with six breeds to calculate across-flock EPDs. These breeds are Targhee, Suffolk, Polypay, Dorsets, Hampshires, and Columbia. Producers in other breeds will receive across-flock EPDs if enough flocks join NSIP so that good genetic linkages can be established. NSIP will help facilitate this. If the breed association office cannot act as a collection point for data, then the group of breeders needs to find someone else to do this role. Again, NSIP will facilitate this. There are people in the sheep industry already doing these tasks.

How much does NSIP cost? 

The NSIP fee structure is very simple and reasonable. Annual fees are based on two things: (1) a flock charge plus (2) a charge per each breeding animal in the flock. The flock charge is an annual fee per flock. An animal is defined as an adult ewe or a ewe lamb that will be part of the breeding flock or a ram that will be used to sire lambs. On the Enrollment Form, a producer counts all animals, male or female, that were used in breeding during the past year. Producers enroll only purebred animals with registration numbers. They also enroll any ewe lambs or ram lambs used for breeding that will be registered but have not yet been assigned registration numbers. For example, a purebred producer with 97 breeding ewes and three breeding rams would pay a total NSIP fee of $175.00. (= $50 flock charge plus $1.25 x 100) This producer would send a check for this amount together with the completed Enrollment Form to the NSIP office.   In some cases you are billed by the Data Coordinator who will send your EPD report upon  receipt of payment.

Where can I get more information? 

Purebred producers: Contact your Breed Association NSIP Committee Member or the NSIP office. 

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data entry  spreadsheets 

Mating and Laming records are enterend onto a srpeadsheet that is submitted to the Data Coordinator. More…

About epds

• EPD's Explained
• How they work
• Traits they Measure