About Hawks Mountain Ranch Icelandic Sheep

Icelandic Sheep
51920 S.W. Dundee Road
Gaston, OR 97119
Phone: (503) 985-3331

Website: www.hawksmtnranch.com
E-mail:
lisa@hawksmtnranch.com

Hawks Mountain Ranch
"Importation 2000"

From start to finish....
A step by step process from importing Icelandic ram semen from Iceland to actual Artificial Insemination!
by Lisa Roskopf

Step by Step:

Step 1:	Joining the voluntary federal scrapie certification program
Step 2:	Contacting the Southram AI Station in Iceland
Step 3:	Ordering semen from Iceland
Step 4:	Applying for the U.S. import permit
Step 5:	Lining up a customs agent at U.S. port of entry
Step 6:	The shipping process~ from Iceland to the U.S.
Step 7:	Equipment needed for storing frozen semen
Step 8:	The Actual AI process
Step 9:	Lambing spring 2001!
Step 10:	Planning for next years importation