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After recovering my account I can finally post again ❤️
Buffy has been blossoming doing some farm work with her mother and Alex 🤩
She can lack confidence but she is a fast learner, and is developing quite a serious thoughtful head on her, which at times I'm not gonna lie, I thought may never happen as a young pup 😂
Buffy in her .clip.collars 😎
Special dogs ❤️
'It's just a picture' 📸 but one of my favourites I've ever taken, because today I watched Saphy, her daughter Risemoor Immy, and granddaughter Risemoor Buffy work together. Three talented girls 🖤
Three generations 🥹 today is a good day.
The guys were sorting, vaccinating single lambs and stud lambs today, as well as bagging the ewes and applying pour on to the mothers. Couple of mastitic ewes and lames were also caught and treated.
Immy, jock and saphy putting a shift in 💪 tomorrow it'll be the twins for the same treatment. I'm making myself useful counting lambs from the sidelines 😅
Getting through the spring/summer work, even if it does feel like winter again 🥶
Nothing in the world prepares you for seeing your little pup grow up and turn grey. My old girl, and best friend. Age has not brought you wisdom, you've always known it all. Still young at heart ❤️
Five the Spiderlamb is still thriving & doing well
His extra limb/s don't stop him frolicking with his friends in the garden or drinking
A fine brace of beaks
Working hard gathering cows with young calves and unbroken bulling heifers (300h in the mob approx) one day,and then moving onto ewes with lambs the next. Dogs that adapt well to different stock classes are so important to us, as well as adapting to a different handler (as I'm still off work 🥲) as the show must go on
This was a really tough video for me to make, looking back on this nightmare situation. Please please PLEASE watch this video if you walk your dog on farmland or are a farmer who owns a dog ‼️‼️‼️
Particularly a herding breed dog. This was one of the worst days of my life as a dog owner, and I consider myself so so lucky, it literally happened in front of me. Keep your dogs away from pour-on or anywhere pour on has been.
If your dog experiences any of the symptoms including:
- enlarged pupils
- disorientation
- clumsiness
- trembling
- excess salivation
- seizure (obviously 🙈)
PLEASE take your dog immediately to the vet, do not wait, or you will end up with either a deceased dog or one with organ failure
Farmers, I don't care how long you might have done it for, please let last year be the last time you chuck a dog in a dip tank or give them sheep wormer/let them eat sheep muck. It's not worth the heartache of a sick or dead dog 💔
This is some really cool research! Often people ask online when the optimum time to spay/neuter dogs is, and we have always known a rough guideline is sexual maturity. The university of California have done some fantastic research on the impact on joints/certain cancers/pyometra/UI. Looking at optimum age on a breed and gender basis!
I've added the border collie data from the research paper into the screenshots. 12m+ being the answer
https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/when-should-you-neuter-or-spay-your-dog
So exciting!
Risemoor Stella & Risemoor Buck have arrived in Australia and finally got through the quarantine system 🥳🇦🇺
These two are heading up the southern hemisphere beak division 😎 I think the other dogs are pretty jealous, considering the Scottish spring we have had here.
They are siblings, out of Risemoor Immys first litter to Telf Joff
Stella is going to Buninyong View Working BCs (see Facebook) and Buck is at Fynbos working dogs on IG ❤️ and I wish them and their owners luck with them in the future ❤️
Beak global domination is one step closer 🤪
Risemoor Immy (video below) working cows with calves. Extensive videos of Immy on sheep & cattle are available.
She is tested clear for everything on the MDD panel with 0/0 hips and 0/0 elbows.
💥 Lot 32 💥 in this week's Dolgellau auction is a lovely daughter of Immys, some fantastic breeding behind her and really nicely schooled ready to go on and do any job.
Gen 3 🦬
A surprise for our lambing team yesterday..
Five, the Spiderlamb 🕸️
Now asleep in my kitchen 😂
Mother and daughter ❤️
Immy brought the sheep in with Alex while me and Buffy stood in the gap 😅 Buffy is only young and just learning to be around stock in a relaxed way without the need to 'do' much, this will be important education for her going forwards. I can't wait to work these both together when Buffy has more experience and I have a more co operative operative knee 🙈surgery went very well on my knee, but strengthening it and rebuilding flexibility is a very slow process and I'm not a patient person!
Looking forward to that day soon ❤️
Whilst this isn't the best picture in the world, I decided to post it here because i think it captures Jock pretty well. This dog goes hard and all in when needed. The gate to this field is in the wrong place rather than the corner it's in the middle, so once stock start exiting, the rest often run down the inside of the field following their mates on the wrong side of the fence and congregate in the corner 🙄
I honestly thought half of them were going to jump the fence to join them, and I was about to go get the ones back in when jock had other ideas. They were packed into this tight corner and he pulled them right out of it, essentially holding them off from their mates in order to make them walk out the gate and then rejoin the herd. I was so proud of him this day, I didn't actually ask him to do it, I was trying to think of a plan, I am always conscious of his safety, but he was like.. boss I know what we have to do, I got this 😎
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The winter of endless rain 🌧️
The daffodils are out, it's almost April, the multiples group are moving to their lambing ground for a pre lamb rotation, yet there's no sign of the big yellow warm thing that sits in the sky. I thought it might make a long awaited appearance this morning, but Scottish weather being famously fickle, my audacity was rewarded by more rain coming in straight off the sea 😂 Ever grateful for the large proportion of Shetland genetics in the flock, those hardy girls still think it's just a wee shower.
For anyone who is lucky enough to be reacquainted with that illusive big yellow warm thing this bank holiday, and is cutting about in the countryside.. a reminder that ewes are heavily pregnant, or have very young lambs at foot, please keep your dogs on leads 🙏
Secondly, if you see a ewe stuck on her back like a tortoise, please give her a hand getting herself back on her legs, this is a life threatening situation for a ewe and she will suffocate 😬
Thank you & enjoy your Easter
Baby Buffy in her .clip.collars
Reminds me so much of her mum Immy
Risemoor Buck 🦌 is heading out to Australia 🇦🇺 next month with his owner Fynbos working dogs
Great to see an Immy son going out there to work full time on a sheep station, he's really growing into a lovely dog.
We can't wait to follow his progress! Go on over and give Jess a follow to keep up with Buck and her other tremendous dogs Down Under!
Two young sisters, Risemoor Buffy & Lanna out helping their mother Immy with some baby jobs.
Tricky time of year, when everything is pregnant, trying to give little tasks to inexperienced young dogs that are very new to 'work' but sometimes the best thing for them is to keep taking them out and letting them try things and make mistakes. Immy can help them fix issues and give them confidence too.
Introductions are due..
I've been a huge admirer of Nip and his offspring, unfortunately the stars have never aligned for a Risemoor X Nip litter, when Emma mentioned her tremendous Nessie had had a romantic liaison down in Wales, I asked her to bear me in mind for a pup, but I said I only wanted one if it was absolutely wild..
A few months went by, and Emma told me she had the pup for me 😅 Then I got injured and debated whether it was the right decision to still have her. I didn't want to miss what might be my last chance of a Nip pup out of such a nice female too, and feeling pretty down after my accident I thought it might be good to have something to focus on.
Jess kindly picked her up for me on her way home from Bute, and life has been a bit of a whirlwind since 😂 She was hastily christened Missy (mischief) but was known as 'demon' for at least the first 2 months. When your mobility is limited, I did start to question if I'd done the right thing 😅 but she was everything I asked for, she is so sharp and intelligent, and has really been such a source of happiness for me in the last few months, I felt like she must be meant for me.
Most importantly Saph approved and took to her as well as I've ever seen her mate up with anyone. I expect she recognised a kindred spirit in Missy 🫣 and our living room became a UFC battleground
Thank you for this little lunatic 🥰
Graylees Missy
(Scalpsie Nessie x dai Howells Nip)
Fell View Grit
He's 'my' boy, loves me, ignores almost everyone else. It's been quite tough for him me being injured and him not being out with me.
Today I took him and moo on a first little walk down the track, first walk since knee surgery. Not far, but a big step forwards for me, still crutching about, but having a little more independence to spend more time with my dogs is so huge for me 🖤
While anyone who knows me knows I am no Huntaway fan, I do appreciate the value of a good one.
The work of these guys to set up a breed registry will be a fantastic step forward to maintaining the ability and health of the UK Huntaway going forwards.
Huntaway fans don't come for me here, but I have noticed a worrying lack of genetic diversity over here, with some hip dysplasia, and incredibly poor structures starting to creep in. I have to say I've seen on some of the pages based here, there's a tendency to over produce pups from poor animals and sell surplus into pet homes, probably because the females have such big litters.
From looking at other working breeds brought into the UK, I think it will make all the difference for the breed going forwards to have a society that can put in some level of rule, regulation, and quality control and I look forward to seeing how they get on with it.
Good luck guys!
The border collie may well be the traditional companion for shepherds and farmers across the country, but an alternative breed of working dog...
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Violets are blue 💙
There's nobody i'd rather have opening my gates than you 💘
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The guys have been very busy giving the lambs a second dose of clostridial vaccine. It makes me laugh watching when they release them from the pens. Literally jumping for joy 😍 #Sheep #farming #farmer #agriculture
This was a really tough video for me to make, looking back on this nightmare situation. Please please PLEASE watch this video if you walk your dog on farmland or are a farmer who owns a dog ‼️‼️‼️ Particularly a herding breed dog. This was one of the worst days of my life as a dog owner, and I consider myself so so lucky, it literally happened in front of me. Keep your dogs away from pour-on or anywhere pour on has been. If your dog experiences any of the symptoms including: - enlarged pupils - disorientation - clumsiness - trembling - excess salivation - seizure (obviously 🙈) PLEASE take your dog immediately to the vet, do not wait, or you will end up with either a deceased dog or one with organ failure Farmers, I don't care how long you might have done it for, please let last year be the last time you chuck a dog in a dip tank or give them sheep wormer/let them eat sheep muck. It's not worth the heartache of a sick or dead dog 💔 #vet #bordercollie #collie #aussie #countryside #Summer #dog #genetics #poison #farmlife #farmer #farmdog #workingdog
Aggressive animals are a danger to both dogs and humans, and an animal that cannot be handled is no good to me. This young ram is getting some re education from Immy. He joined my training sheep to present a different challenge to some young part trained dogs I have, but this sort of behaviour would ruin a young dogs confidence and encourage bad habits. Immy teaches him compliance 💪 she doesn't tolerate sh!t from anything; she's always in control, educating without putting a hole in him. I love my girl ❤️ #Sheepdog #stockdog #bordercollie #workingdog #dog #farmer #sheep #farmlife #farming #herding #bordercollie #dog #fyp #farmlife #farmer #sheep #herding #DogTraining #stockdog #workingdog #grit #toughdog
This time last year, there had been a dog in the lambing paddocks and there was sheep all over the spot including one hung up in a fence. Immy was helping me regroup them, they were fairly shaken up, and it's always at times like this I'm relieved she's such a smooth operator 😎 can't wait to go back to proper work with her ❤️ #Workingdog #Sheepdog #bordercollie #stockdog #lambing #sheep #farming #farmer #farmlife #dog #isds
Risemoor Immy (video below) working cows with calves. Extensive videos of Immy on sheep & cattle are available. She is tested clear for everything on the MDD panel with 0/0 hips and 0/0 elbows. 💥 Lot 32 💥 in this week's Dolgellau auction is a lovely daughter of Immys, some fantastic breeding behind her and really nicely schooled ready to go on and do any job.
Spider lamb update 🕸️ Five is storming about 😂 #lambing #farming
Saphy loves pet lambs, she knows they mean access to the delicious nectar that is lamb milk. Clearly the love for collie cocaine runs in the family, as Immy and jock found and ate the brand new bag of colostrum I'd bought 👌🙈 Luckily she ignores lambs except to lick them, so she makes good company for Five & his pal while I make an attempt at keeping the kitchen tidy #farmlife #farmdog #farmer #farming #lambing
The grid is for the dogs, but made the exception for this one 🤭 When I don't know someone, but I do know of their dog 😂 #DogBreeder #isds #Sheepdog #Stockdog #bordercollie #pedigree
Throwback to 2019, when you impulse purchase two piglets as a suprise but didn't really plan on how you were getting them home or where you'd be putting them 🫣 Carrying them across the yard hoping they wouldn't squeal or bite me 😂 They were the very best of boys 🐷 #farming #farmer #pig #pigsofinstagram #christmas #farmchristmas #farm #farmlife
Social media farming has a lot to answer for.. But the reality is no matter the planning, you're always at the mercy of the unknown. We as humans hate uncertainty but in farming there is very little certainty. Be it weather, an unexpected bill, a walker leaving a gate open, dog attacks, a crisis on the other side of the world that leads to a huge price fluctuation, accidents, freak disease storm etc so much feels out of our control. Sometimes this leads to working longer and longer hours trying to mitigate all that with endless labour which in itself increases the pressure mentally and physically; lack of sleep, no downtime, not keeping connected with friends/family, too much caffeine and processed junk etc. Some days/weeks/years it feels like the world is against you. But then you'll see a fresh calf with its mother, or your lambs bouncing around the new grass with spring sunshine on their backs and want to do it all over again 🙈 Ultimately nothing beats being outside, working with your hands, and being part of nature's cycle. #Farming #Agriculture #Agri #farmer #farmlife #farm #farm #food #reality
You won't find a more accurate video on tiktok 🤣 I don't think I've ever met a farmer, especially an old boy, that doesn't have some seriously questionable story about how they nearly lost a limb because they refused to go to hospital until it practically required chopping off. The story always ends with the reasoning that they had to finish dosing/fencing/harvest/deliver milk/drop in to market.. it'll be reyt 🤦🏼♀️ then when they do go, they'll self discharge the second they've got AB.. Farmers and ranchers are a different breed. Tough job, tough people! #Farming #farmer #farmlife #farm
Risemoor Jock pushing up stores for me, he is growing up and starting to get a little wisdom of age I think! I don't really use dogs in the pens, but I needed a hand with these guys, and jockie is the man for the job. Immy will hopefully be cleared for work at the end of the month, will be so lovely to have her back but Jock has risen to the occasion in her absence. #Sheepdogs #Stockdogs #isds #bordercollie #dog #herding #farming #cows
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