Cergin Livestock Company

17750 Locust Ln
Caldwell, ID 83605
Ph. 208-459-2991

Owners:
Jerry Cereda
Marie S. Bulgin

Cergin Livestock Company is located 4 miles east of Marsing, Idaho over looking the Snake River. We raise purebred Suffolk sheep, purebred Rideau Arcott sheep and a few purebred Dorset sheep and about 300 head of commercial ewes.

Cergin Livestock Company's Suffolk sheep flock has been enrolled in the VSCF Program for 8 years and is certified free of scrapie. The sheep flock has been genotyped and the herd sires are of codon 171 RR genetics.

Cergin Livestock Company believes the Suffolk sheep is a meat animal, not a race horse and have bred them accordingly, selecting heavily for twinning, milking, weight gain, good feet, legs and survivability. For example, our Suffolks average greater than 190% live lamb crop and twin buck lambs average over 1.0 Lb/day gain.

Andy, one of our Suffolk sheep herd Sires out of an Andrus ram.

Our East Friesian ram.

Cergin Livestock Company Commercial sheep flock is made up of crosses of East Friesian, Suffolk, Rideau Arcott and Dorset sheep. (No, the crossbred sheep were not a mistake or the result of rams getting in with the wrong group of ewes.)

"What," you ask, "is a Rideau Arcott?"

Rideau Arcott sheep were developed in Canada to be medium sized, to breed out of season, to have multiple lambs and to milk well. They were developed from Cheviot, East Friesian, Finnish Landrace, Dorset and Suffolk breeds. Ours generally have a 240% lamb crop and the triplet moms raise their lambs. We believe that to be profitable, sheep producers must raise at least a 200% lamb crop. The Rideau Arcott sheep help us do that.

The Rideau Arcott and the Friesian ewes crossed with Suffolk rams yield a medium-sized, brown faced lamb that is very vigorous at birth and tend to gain better than the pure white lambs. The cross ewes consistently twin, even as lambs, occasionally triplet as adult sheep, milk very well and can raise triplets.

When the Rideau Arcott and the Friesian ewe crosses are bred back to the Suffolk rams, resultant F2 lambs are fast growing and meaty, making great market lambs.

These are the Rideau Arcott ewes lambs with buck.

Cergin Livestock Company's entire flock is a closed sheep flock; only herd sires have been introduced over the last 15 years. Our sheep are also free of foot rot, epididymitis and OPP.

Suffolk ram lambs are available from April through December. Ewe lambs of our various breeds and crosses are available most of the time. However, bred ewe lambs are only available after October. If necessary, ewe lambs can be guaranteed pregnant by ultrasound.

If you are interested in Dorset or Rideau Arcott ram lambs, please contact Cergin Livestock Company in early spring as we only save as many ram lambs as we know we have homes for.

Cergin Livestock Company goals are multiple lambs, good gains, good muscle, legs, feet, survivability and no chronic diseases. If you have the same goals, come visit us. I think you will like what you see!

9 to 10 month old Suffolk ewe lambs on fall pasture.