We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Raphael, a shepherd from Peru, arrives at where the sheep have been penned overnight. The portable, electrified 'netting' rolls up by section for moving to the next site. The netting keeps the sheep together and predators away. One of three guard dogs, a breed native to Turkey, is also shown in the photo.
Reporter's note: Last winter Max Hofeldt, a longtime sheep producer in the Chinook area, told me a producer from eastern Washington state would be bringing a flock of ewes and lambs to pasture south of Chinook for the summer. Max was reducing his lamb-ewe operation and would be leasing pasture to Tom Clyde, with the Standing O Ranch in Connell, Washington. Max met Tom Clyde at a sheep sale and the two struck an arrangement for Clyde to bring 1250 ewes and 1645 lambs to Blaine County in early May.
I'd heard, since arriving in Blaine County, about the role sheep had played as the area was settle...
