~waving~ to Cathy! Hey girl! Those pups ar looking good. I hope you have found homes for more of them by now. I have shared your website with someone else and...
Hi Goochie ;), Tish, and everyone! Clementine (Beebe, Mohn's, Itza, etc. lines) and Skipper (Loflin, etc. lines) are a beautiful combination of intelligence,...
As we all love to get updates on the pups we breed/raise, I'm no exception. I've been working on mine and had to share my most recent.......Scout from Lefty x...
... I've been working on mine and had to share my most recent.......Scout from Lefty x Belle July 26, 2007 litter. ... And i have been soooo lazy about...
Hi Cheryl....... I have to laugh b/c I've yet to catch up on all "Your" past updatesl! Pictures are always nice but I do know how hard it is when the cold...
Hi Peg, What great looking dogs. Belle sounds like she has a wonderful new home. I love hearing about the pups from that litter. They sound like they have...
Peg, most of us here know how special the breed is but IMO this shows just how special YOU are; you have done a beautiful thing that I know had to be so hard...
Bless you, Ruth! You don't know how many times I've had to stop typing b/c I can't see due to the tears. (Like now.......sigh.) I've kept my distance to not...
These are just some quick shots of Lady herding the sheep for me. I had just ask her to move them from one end of the pasture and then back again. She does a...
The two I'm most familiar with are Butcher and Merz. They both selectively bred for (working cattle) natural low heelers (NB T) and they both bred mostly...
Long story. Last summer, rockchucks (western version of woodchucks) got in my garden and ate several rows of veggies...repeatedly. They were out at night and...
If you build a fence around the garden and put out a nice house for them, they should take care of anything that dares get in through the fence. That's what I...
Thanks Jill. That's kind of what I was thinking of doing, only have the kennel/run just next to the garden. I'm with you on it being hard to leave the boy...
I had one ES and didn't really want to leave her out alone. So I used the chicken gaurding thing as an excuse to get another one. Haven't regretted it for a...
Thought I'd post an update on how my young dogs Ivy and Rudy (both a year old) are coming along. I'm enjoying the differences. I have my preferences in terms...
I have been thinking of this for my chicken coop, which houses chicken, doves, and rabbits. I lost one lovely satin angora doe to a mink one week after she...
Hi Peg, Thanks for the info. Gemma's a year and a half now and I call her a natural header because she mostly (I was going to say always) goes to the gate...
I think it works best to breed according to how biddable a dog is. My strong minded header has had better pups bred to an ultra biddable dog. Elaine...
I like the sound of that, but Gem is very biddable, very attentive and willing to try again in the moment. She's got a great work ethic, loves to work. I can...
IME with her granddad. It's an extremely natural instinct. It's like trying to make a right handed person write perfectly with their left. Some people are...
Erin, aaaaaah, that totally makes sense, it's a concentration thing. I knew it was her instinct, and believe me, I respect how much it takes to learn...
In a message dated 1/21/08 4:19:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I think it's hard-wired, like Erin said, as much as handedness in people, and that it comes in...
This was soo helpful Tish! Zach and i struggle daily with his being a header. And i agree..its very hardwired into him. With Lady here, and shes definitely a...
Tish- Bubba is pretty strong in the Mohn's line with just a touch of Shininger way back (about 7 gens). He prefers to head - it took me a while to figure it...
I think both Kaschak's Brandy (according to Vivian) and Mohns went to the head. Theresa could probably say more. This may be why it is so hard to breed out...
I have a friend here in Ok looking for an Es. She has a small suburban homestead and needs a dog to do some predator control and herding and hopefully be a...
I agree with both Tish and Erin, it's a hard-wired trait. However, my 6 1/2 years experience with Sasha has (1/4) Shininger, no Mohns. Sasha's hardwired...
Our Brandy went to the head only went it was needed - he worked the cows however the situation needed - if he did not know what to do he would always stop &...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
