We came back to Flying Bucket after Nita Nee, so we could continue progesterone tests on Mazikeen. We did a lot of small pen work (Mazikeen here) under pressure, as well as working on driving fundamentals, holding pressure, and moving through things with the entire gang. Fiddle and Mazikeen also worked on some advanced arena … More More Work at Flying Bucket
Fiddle won High Combined Non Australian Shepherd! She took 4th place in Started Cows (behind her 3 Daughters), and then won the afternoon session to finish her started cattle title on Friday. She won the open cattle class and took a 3rd place to finish her Open Cattle Title on Saturday. Sunday, she took 3rd … More ASCA Trial in Maine – Fiddle
Mazikeen finished the ASCA trial with High Combined Started Dog! She won Started Ducks in the afternoon and took 3rd in the morning. She also won started sheep and started goats for her title, and took 3rd in started cows for her first leg, and won started cows for her second leg on Saturday. She … More ASCA Trial in Maine – Mazikeen
So… this trial, I learned something about Chunky… Despite working geese, runner ducks, pekins, and swedish blues… Call ducks were a total mystery. Like, she could get behind them and move them… but she didn’t hold pressure behind them, and wanted to keep stopping their movement. It was so very weird. So, there was an … More ASCA Trial – Chunky
Little Miss Rory really impressed me at her very first trial. She was lights out working cattle for me, finishing her Started Cattle Title with two second place finishes (tied for first with a 95 with Chunky, but lost the tie breaker), but what really surprised me… was her looking like the most effortless duck … More ASCA Trial Maine – Aurora
I finally got to go to my friend Kathy’s house for a clinic with my favorite clinician! We worked some cows that are not super used to dogs working them, so we had to put a different type of pressure on them to hold them. I worked Mazikeen, Rory, and Chunky through two spots the … More Dave Viklund in Tazwell, TN!!!!!
After we did the herding clinic in Maine, I went back to NY and did a lot of mixed flock work, farm work, and arena cattle work with Fiddle, Mazikeen, and Chunky, with some with little Miss Rory. We also did some foundations and fundamentals with Sue on both sheep and cattle in the small … More Back to Flying Bucket
One of the things that I really need to be successful is just having the time to work my dogs on stock, especially cattle. Getting security moving stock away from me, holding pressure and gathering the stock up the middle of the field. I had the Fiddle crew with me (Fiddle, Mazikeen, Chunky, Rory, Sue), … More Working at Flying Bucket Farm
I have worked with a lot of clinicians in the past, and some of these lessons are starting to sink into my skull. I am becoming much calmer in handling cattle and my dogs, however, I am still sort of in the way. So the entire goal of this clinic was to be far enough … More John Holman Clinic
I am over the moon with my red cattle dog crew! I entered Fiddle, Mazikeen, and Chunky in the Blue Ridge Herding Trial. Fiddle was my rockstar for the weekend, taking a Reserve High in Trial from her started ducks run, managed to finish her Started Ducks title AND her Intermediate Cattle Title with 4 … More Berryville Herding Trial
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