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

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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

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/