Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb

As spring slowly shows its head and the flocks are getting sorted, shorn, and moved to green spring pastures, there is one indispensable worker on the farm that needs to be mentioned, the Border Collie

Kyle Farms currently employs one Border Collie, Pete, who's skills and work ethic are extraordinarily important to the farm.  Peter is an 8 year old, male, tricolor Border Collie.  He will single handedly fetch and move groups of ewes from pastures, woods, and gullies and with the assistance of a person on foot or 4-wheeler will move the flock where ever they need to go.  The lambing manager says that Pete is amazing in his ability to recognize which ewe needs to be caught to go in a jug and to find and keep the ewe close enough to be caught and penned with her lambs (an amazing help with confused, scatterbrained yearlings).  Without dogs to move and manage the flock in open pastures and through sorting systems, management procedures would take much longer and require a lot more "person" power.  Having Pete to work with is a great help to everyone on the farm. 

Peter has four puppies in training with various persons working for Kyle Farms and is looking forward to training his offspring to work the flock.  (He is NOT however at all ready to give up his position as most important dog on the farm) 

      

Reba and Rusty, siblings out of a litter of Peter's puppies born Aug 08.  Rusty is currently off receiving formal herding training while Reba tries to help Pete hold down the fort.