Lambing Season
"You can't beat this. It is dry everyplace. When everybody else has got mud, I don't have mud."It's lambing season and we're visiting Schertz Sheep Company off Roswell Road outside Wilder. This is one of the biggest sheep ranches in Idaho. Owner Frank Schertz has been a sheep man his whole life. "My dad always had a few sheep, between 40 and 400. He sheared all over the country so he was always around them. I have always been around sheep. My brothers and I started a little outfit up there. We had three single guys out working in the woods, living on nothing and putting all of our money into sheep." Fast-forward thirty years and Frank along with a crew of 24 have their hands full. "I've got about 7000 ewes, so they will have a around 10,000. So doing the math when it comes to Spring pasture turnout it will be 7000 ewes and 10,000 lambs." Tomorrow Frank talks about Summer pasture and wild dogs.