Border Collies

we use Australian and English Shepherd for working with the goats. Everything’s going so much smoother and less stressful for everyone with the dogs.

I use two Border Collies and an Australian Shepherd. They are with me daily and guard stackyards all winter so I don’t have to shut the gates when I’m feeding. All year they herd cows with me whenever we move. They are essential. Much of the time it’s me and the dogs moving up to 275 cows around and I couldn’t do it without them.
Yesterday I was moving one of my bulls out of my neighbors cows. He got on the fight and was hitting our horses and finally knocked over my daughter’s horse (she’s quick and got away from the wreck before she got hurt) and sent him flying about 4 feet up and sideways. When an animal as big as him (I guess about 2200 lb.) decides he’s through doing what you want him to there isn’t much room for argument. He was too big to rope so I put the dogs on him. After about 2 or 3 minutes of fighting with a collie on his nose and the other on his arse, he decided to get moving. Took us about 3 hours to move him a half mile. Could never have done it without my dogs Babe and Dot, mother and daughter team.