LINKS

 
 

Relating to the Bearded Collie


Beardies Herding Internationally


Training


Herding Organizations


Books and Videos


For Sheer Pleasure


Sources/Suppliers

 

Please feel free to explore ALL of each of these links.  There are articles and resources at each site that relate not only to the Breed, but in many cases directly to herding or the working of stock.  Those links marked with ** have such articles.


This page as others will be a work in progress...........


Relating to the Bearded Collie


Bearded Collie Club of America

http://beardie.net/bcca/herding/index.htm  **


Bearded Collie Health Page

http://www.beaconforhealth.org/


Bearded Collie Club of Canada  **

http://bccc.pair.com/herding.htm


Shepherds using Beardies: a history work and site in progress  **

http://www.shepherdswithbeardies.com


http://www.shepherdswithbeardies.com/Speculation/Speculation.htm



Beardies Herding Internationally


Austria

http://www.working-beardies.at/info/ 


(make sure you go to “media” to see the GREAT herding photos)


Sweden

http://www.boomtownbeardedcollie.se/English/Ekeberg.htm


Carl Borgstrom has been a major player in providing excellent herding experiences to Beardies


United Kingdom     

http://www.spanglefish.com/herdingbeardies/


Coming back to their roots, Beardies are

getting involved in Yorkshire. “To our great interest and pleasure we found the herding instinct alive and well in the modern "show-bred" Bearded Collie”.



Training and Articles on herding and stockmanship


These are not in any particular order but all have proved to have on going interest and information.  The resource or article pages are vast with many of their own links



Understanding Flight Zone and Point of Balance

http://grandin.com/behaviour/principles/flight.zone.html


Herding On the Web, Linda Rorem’s huge and comprehensive site on dogs, stock and herding.

http://www.herdingontheweb.com/


Stockdog Libary, scroll down (but your missing a LOT of good other information) for their sections on Training at different levels.

http://www.workingaussiesource.com/stockdoglibrary.html


Articles pertaining to herding,


http://www.stockdog.com/training/training.htm


http://www.abcollie.com/articles/article.htm


http://www.littlehats.net/training.html


http://www.workingsheepdog.co.uk/sheepdog_training_introduction.htm


http://www.trailsend-acds.com/outrun.html


http://www.patrickshannahan.com/articles.asp


Herding Organizations


ASCA  http://www.asca.org/


AHBA http://www.ahba-herding.org/


AKC   http://www.akc.org/


CKC ..a new herding program in development. Article

http://www.downriver.org/ckcprocess.php


Books and Videos


Videos


Training Secrets of a Hill Shepherd,  Derek Scrimgeour

2 DVD set comprehensive and all encompassing, over three hours. 2007 Little Horse Mountain Productions www.bcollies.com


The Shepherd’s Pup – Training the Sheepdog Puppy, Derek Scrimgeour. DVD and VHS format


Starting Your Border Collie on Cattle, Sheep or Ducks, Rural Route Videos, VHS

  

Stockdog Training Fundamentals Part I and II, by Mike Hubbard, VHS


Training the Working Stockdog, Set I,II,III by Elvin Kopp

DVD


Time Well Spend, by Alex Owen

VHS


Introduction to All Breed Herding &

All Breed Herding, The Next Steps by Lynn Leach, VHS

http://www.downriver.org/


Books on Training


The Farmer's Dog by John Holmes


Herding Dogs: Progressive Training by Vergil Holland.


Lessons from a Stock Dog by Bruce Fogt.


Sheepdog Training, an All-Breed Approach by Mari Taggart. Alpine Publications



Talking Sheepdogs, by Derek Scrimgeour,


Training and Working Dogs for Quiet, Confident Control of Stock by Scott Lithgow.


The Natural Way by Julie Simpson


For Sheer Pleasure


LINKS


Striding Edge, a photo diary of Lake District Fell Walks, with Casper and Angus UK Beardies.  My sincere thanks to Sean McMahon for sharing this site

http://www.stridingedge.net/


BOOKS


The Shepherds Watch, by David Kennard


Dogs of Windcutter Down, by David Kennard


Magic Moments: Four Seasons on a Scottish Hill Farm  by Tom Duncan


The Last Shepherds  by Charles Bowden


The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs

by Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.


Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching through Scotland for a Border Collie  by Donald McCaig


Red Sky At Night by John Barrington


One Woman and Her Dog by Viv Billingham


VIDEOS


Please check upon ordering the format (NTSC vs PAL) and the regions for playability


Year of the Working Sheepdog

DVD


One Man and His Dog Disc I,II Thirty Years  (warning- PAL format only), DVD


Any of the USBCHA national Finals VHS


Any of the Supreme International Championships


Getting to Know Ewe II", DVD produced and available through the Great Plains Bearded Collie Club, (Sheep Shop)     

http://www.greatplainsbcc.org/ 


Sources/Suppliers

if looking for antique books please qualify EXACTLY what you are looking for.  Buyer beware


Border Collies In Action

www.bordercollies.com

800-833-0332


Border Collie Training Center

3701 County Road 114

Tulelake, CA 96134 USA

530-664-2168 • 530-664-4459 fax

http://www.bcollies.com/


Farming Books and Video (UK)

http://www.farmingbooksandvideos.com/default.asp


AbeBooks: Excellent for used and out of print books

http://www.abebooks.com/


Amazon.com


The Shepherds Dog, antique books and periodicals (UK)

http://www.theshepherdsdog.com/











 

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