How to Manage Sheep Through Gate Demo -- Dog Training -- Border Collie -- Herding Stock Techniques

6/22/12 training video. Shows how to handle stock through gate/gap in fence, both toward and away from a draw. Simple techniques utilizing dog's basic instincts are recommended. More advanced maneuvers are described.

Prerequisite dog skills include a lie-down, and flanks. More advanced skill is the drive, but unnecessary to master basic tasks described. Numerous books and other resources cover such topics.

This video is for busy ranchers/farmers who may not have time and reasonable opportunity to attend in-person training. Primary focus is upon helping hard-working farmers and ranchers best utilize their herding dogs to accomplish particular stock management tasks. Emphasis on practical work.

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Video has closed caption feature, as well as language translations, including Spanish, Polish, Japanese and approximately 20 others. Subtitles allow ease of viewing for hearing impaired and for those who wish language translation.

Safety recommendations: When sheep/stock are nearby and/or crowding handler, flex your knees. Slightly bent legs, avoiding tensing-up and locking knees, will help prevent injury. Do not position yourself in a gateway/gap where stock may jostle handler, and perhaps cause injury. Stand off to side of a passageway, using fence or other structure to protect yourself from collision with stock.

Contents:

Introduction -- 00:12

How to fetch through a gateway, gap in fence -- 01:18

Demo using plastic models -- 02:37

Stopping stock before they hurry through gate -- 07:52

Partial drive to move through gate -- 09:11

Fetching through gate toward a draw -- 11:21

Driving Stock through gate 11:47

Fetching through gate toward draw -- 12:26