Sentences with phrase «with livestock herding»

• Dr. Yehonatan Berkowic looks forward to returning to Israel and implementing preventive medicine practices he is learning as part of his residency with the Livestock Herd Health and Reproduction Service.

Not exact matches

Other northern NSW herds were also on the market and 10 dairy in southern Queensland according to Dairy Connect research with livestock agents.

This culture, named for the beautiful carved standing stones («deer stones») and burial mounds (khirigsuurs) it built across the Mongolian Steppe, is linked with some of the oldest evidence for nomadic herding and domestic livestock use in eastern Eurasia.

I would like to learn more about herding livestock and maybe earning herding titles with my dog.

With some breeds, such as Border Collies, biting or nipping is even more instinctive because of the nature of the breed - they're born and bred to herd livestock, and that's how a 50 or 60 pound dog will control a 1,000 pound cow - by biting at the heels or nose.

This versatile breed can track, herd and control livestock as well as hold large game at bay with its immense power.

At an AKC - sanctioned herding test, your dog will enter a pen with a tester and some livestock, usually sheep or ducks.

With the birth of agriculture, dogs came to be used for herding and guarding livestock.

They were often used to move large herds of cattle and sheep, and they were especially good at dealing with livestock in tight areas.

Are you wondering how to train farm dogs to guard, help, and herd with livestock?

Dr. Mobley has been a veterinarian for the Dothan Livestock Company since 1975, with a focus on cow and calf herd management, maintenance, disease prevention and reproduction.

They are domestic dogs that were initially used to herd cattle and other livestock or even pull carts that were usually laden with beef or some other kind of butchered meat to the market.

Herding dogs work with various types of livestock, such as sheep and cattle.

Unlike the livestock guardians that simply stand sentry, herding dogs actively round up cattle and sheep with frantic running, eye contact and aggressive barking.

In their role as livestock guardian dogs, Akbash Dogs frequently spend long hours lying with flocks or herds.

With the rise of modern livestock management and the decline of herding as a canine occupation, von Stephanitz shrewdly promoted his breed as an ideal K - 9 worker.

Left to his own devices, he may become an escape artist, all the better to chase cars, frolicking children, deer, or livestock, all without rancor but with the innate drive to herd.

On the other hand guard dogs assume a proprietary interest in the animals, living with the herd all the time.For many years predator control has been a major problem for the American livestock industry.

There are a host of broad exemptions that will continue to allow breeding for (1) use of dogs as service, guide or therapy animals, by search and rescue, law enforcement and other government agencies; (2) use of dogs for herding or as livestock guardian dogs or hunting dogs; (3) dogs or cats registered with the American Kennel Club, the Cat Fancier Association or other recognized registry or trained and kept for the purpose of show, field trials or agility trials; and (4) dogs or cats whose owner has obtained an unaltered animal permit.

Dogs, once primarily regarded as utilitarian companions, going along with humans to hunt game or herd livestock, are increasingly regarded as family members in our modern society.

Herding dogs are trained using calm livestock who already have experience working with other dogs.

They were bred to catch cows and hogs, to herd livestock and they were also known as the Nanny Dogs due to their disposition with children.

Able to herd a variety of livestock, it is thought that they were especially skilled market dogs, able to drive flocks of geese to market with ease.

Advances in animal and veterinary science coupled with the increasing scale and sustainability in livestock production systems has allowed the placement within herds of highly trained health care personnel who are closely linked to veterinarians, nutritionists, pathologists, diagnostic facilities, etc..

While other types of working farm dogs are tasked with standing guard over livestock, herding dogs are given the responsibly of rounding up flocks and herds.

We have about 70 acres of pasture we would like to setup with a in - ground fence system as sometimes our livestock guardian and herding dogs will go out for walk - abouts.

Everyone who trains or shows a dog; everyone who works with a herding dog, a search and rescue dog, a therapy dog, a retriever, a pointer, a flushing spaniel, or a livestock guard dog; everyone who competes in sled dog races or weight pulls or draft dog tests; and everyone who breeds dogs must learn to speak with a single voice that says «Stop.

Dogs that will be used for herding and guarding also should be introduced to their livestock at an early age (6 - 8 weeks) so they can form a bond with the animals they'll be protecting.

Our collective breeding efforts have resulted in dogs born with instinctual qualities intrinsic to hunting, herding, drafting, guarding livestock, protecting the property and family, and being a companion.

Simply explained, purpose - bred dogs perform a specific job, from hunting game to herding livestock to working in service to a person with disabilities, having the inborn qualities needed to succeed.

It's a fact that this breed is known as «helping» or «working dogs» and the reason behind this perception among people is because they have been bred to work with farmers to assist them in tedious roles such as herding cattle, sheep and several other livestock.

The Border Collie's history probably goes back to the first century B.C., when the Romans invaded Britain and brought with them dogs to herd their livestock.

Border Collies come from the sheepdog breed that has natural tendencies to protect herds rather than hunt them; A testament to their long history of helping man with their livestock.

Indeed, Rottweilers were used and selectively bred to excel at pulling carts filled up with meat to go to markets, as well as herding livestock.

We were bred in the Shetland Islands, where people needed small, rugged dogs to herd livestock, protect gardens from livestock and work with humans.

These are dogs that were used to herd and protect livestock, and they will do the same with their human pack!

The Rottweiler or cite web is a breed of domestic dog, regarded as medium - to - large cite web or large cite web The dogs were known in German as meaning Rottweil butchers» dogs, because their main use was to herd livestock and pull carts laden with butchered meat to market.

It's important to know that until you actually bring livestock to the starting board it doesn't belong to anyone, so while you're busy herding a chicken across an island another player can come along with a Viking and start pushing it the other way.

Rather than unleashing herds of explosive sheep onto our enemies, we now have to guide the hapless livestock through the Worms» weapon factory with gameplay halfway between Lemmings and an industrial meat grinder.

This practice restores degraded grasslands by using livestock as a proxy for the wild herds that the great plains and savannas of the world evolved with.

It occurs in a multitude of forms (mixed farms or specialized livestock keepers; species, herd size, free roaming or confined, husbandry practices), scales and degree of market orientation (subsistence, mixed subsistence / commercial, small commercial, large commercial) and locations (back yards, roof tops, peri-urban areas, urban public vacant spaces) each with its own problems and opportunities.