#Sheep Herding

[doglover43]

i will never stop loving sheepdogs we truly do not deserve them

[softpawssharpteeth]

California Red Ewe and her Lambs.

[beranicantdraw]

Pretty happy with how this came out. I should have spent more time on it but it was meant to be cheap and quick ;-;

[nmnomad]

Roaming the Four Corners, somewhere along IR-9. The sheep outnumber people and cows. I wonder if people realize how much work goes into #Navajo textiles BEFORE the #weaving begins??

[fogaminghub]

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[archival-canine]

Thompson, Sally Ann. A Standard Guide to Purebred Dogs, by Harry Glover, Galley Press, 1982, cover.

[michellemisfit]

We’re in Cumbria. Land of the sheep.

Literally. It belongs to them. We’re just visiting.

[iloivar]

I love these stories, but my experience with great Pyrenees comes mainly from the neighbors having them outside all the time. I am not a fan of having them nextdoor because they are terrible car chasers—I guess it’s that protective streak coming out against a loud rumbly shiny beast...

I had a neighbor that had two of them that would just lay around at the end of his driveway, and anyone that drove past got a big show of chase, barking and lunging and all. One of those struck my car on more than one occasion. It was very stressful because I was worried about the dog. The guy had a few horses and some cattle, but the dogs were not inside the fence with any of them.

One time, and I wish I had a video of this or at least a photograph, it was dark of night, and I was driving past this neighbor’s driveway. I did not see the dogs, so I felt relaxed for once as I drove by. Suddenly, out of the darkness, came this huge white shaggy dog, with a branch that was wrapped around it, lodged in its fur across its chest and back. it barked like an unholy terror chasing my car and lunging at the front corner. There was a terrible thump, and I hoped it was only the end of the branch striking my car, and not the dog itself. It looked like something out of a tale of ghosts & spirits, and I was never relaxed while driving past that driveway again.

PS: The dog seemed fine and normal the next day, lounging and chasing as usual.

Also there was another one at a different neighbor’s house that was in with a flock of sheep and it would chase my car, but only from inside the fence. I didn’t mind that one.

[dramatic-dolphin]

me: i'm adding realism to this medieval fantasy setting

what people think i mean: grime, gratuitous sexual assault and murder, misogyny, child marriage

what i actually mean: everyone reads out loud, women are spinning wool all the time, peasants marry at 20, people wear colors.

[head-post]

Spain cancels annual spectacle of sheep herding to avoid spreading bluetongue

Madrid’s regional government on Thursday cancelled the traditional annual grazing of flocks of sheep in the centre of the Spanish capital, scheduled for Sunday, as a preventive measure against a new type of bluetongue disease, Spanish media reported.

Bluetongue, spread by insects, can be fatal to domestic ruminants such as sheep, cattle and goats. The disease is common in different parts of Spain and has different variants.

A new variant, BTV3, has been circulating in the Netherlands, northern Belgium and western Germany since last year and has recently appeared in south-west Spain, Ministry of Agriculture figures show.

Although no cases of the new variant have been detected in the Madrid area, authorities have cancelled border crossings as a precaution. A spokesman for the Madrid government’s agriculture department told Reuters:

“We are in an area where we have to limit the concentration and movement of livestock.”

Fiesta de la Trashumancia

Every year since 1994, as part of the annual “Fiesta de la Trashumancia” event, sheep herders drive their cattle through the city along a track that once ran through undeveloped countryside on their way to winter pastures in southern Spain.

The shepherds pay a symbolic fee in recognition of a 1418 agreement with the city council that set a fee of 50 maravedis – medieval copper coins – per 1,000 sheep brought through the central square of Sol and Gran Via.

The Fiesta de la Trashumancia (“Feast of Migrations”) originated as an agricultural practice to prevent overgrazing, and the revived migrant festival is now held every autumn, usually in late October.

A modern tribute to the ancient rite was devised by the Transhumance and Nature Foundation.

Now masses of sheep, and sometimes horses and bulls, gather in the Spanish capital once a year. Before the flocks march through the city, women in headdresses called mantillas dance the traditional Spanish “jota” along with men in wide trousers tucked into long socks. The dancers’ shoes are adorned with spikes – a sign of respect for the pastors who use them to walk on muddy terrain.

Read more HERE

[afrotumble]

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[bordercolliefanclub]

Border Collie Training Basics featuring Tim Farmer

Check out this informative and interesting video featuring Tim Farmer and his good friend, Scott, who is an experienced dog trainer, as they discuss how best to get started with training young border collies to become bonafide sheep dogs! https://is.gd/cDlHAa https://www.bordercolliefanclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Murphy-the-Sheep-Dog.png

[softpawssharpteeth]

Welsh sheepdogs working in the valley.

[beranicantdraw]

[nlnnet]

[letmelickyoureyeballs]

I’m not a sheep hearder nor do I care for livestock. But there’s just something primal and intuitive about watching for predators when I let my dogs out in the backyard.

They are both small dogs under twenty-ish pounds and my backyard is not fenced in and is connected to a bluff with a little forest behind it.

There are coyotes, hawks, eagles, owls, falcons, foxes, turkeys, and deer that travel through my backyard. Coyotes have killed my neighbors cats and tried to get their big labs. So being on a constant lookout is a must, and that feeling of being protective and observant always makes me guess if this is what my farming ancestors felt.

Multiple times there have been hawks and such circling my dogs and we have to get them back inside. When my mom wasn’t paying attention once, a hawk got within thirty feet above one.