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Showing posts with label breed conservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breed conservation. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Choosing and Raising a Small Farm Dog: Short Form

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By request from many of the wonderful participants at my farm dog presentations at the Mother Earth News Fair on Saturday, I have uploaded ...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Welcome, Roseannadannas

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Twenty-one hours of stage I labor, four hours of delivery. Three girls, four boys. Sable boy is a genuine runt who won't take no for an...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

This Weekend

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So shoot me, I am not a food stylist. Have you bought your raffle tickets for a customized basket of Brandywine Farm humanely pasture-rai...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Brandywine Farm English Shepherd Gathering is Coming

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Will we see you there? RSVP by email, at the event's Facebook page , or in a comment on the event page -- full names, please, so we kno...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Just the basics: How to read a pedigree

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I was trying to refer a puppy-seeker to some basic online information that explains how to read a pedigree chart, and was shocked to find th...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

News from English Shepherd Land

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English Shepherd Club The 2011 English Shepherd calendar is available from the English Shepherd Club for $14 (ESC members) or $17 (non-membe...
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Monday, March 1, 2010

Dispatches from the Before Time

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I recently jumped at an opportunity to acquire a well-worn, slightly water damaged, mildly smelly time capsule that has, however, miraculous...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Poult Love

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Turkeys have no personalities. Turkeys will drown in a rainstorm. Turkeys are born looking for a comfortable place to die. Turkeys are stu...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

This is What I Breed For

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Portrait of the collie as a young pup. When people ask me, why breed when there are dogs for free on Craig's list? When someone wants to...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Fellow Travellers who provide the vehicles

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HT to Patrick for pointing us to another cell of the functional-dog Maquis. Do I have an appropriate job here for Inuit dogs? I do not. Do...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Dog Breeding: Yer Doin' It Rite

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Scanning the wasteland for the fabled Good Breeder All right, I rail against puppy mills pretty regularly here. My regular readers are the ...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

All that is gold does not glitter

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Retrieverman is mad. Retrieverman thinks that anyone else who loves the golden retriever breed should be mad, too. You betcha. My first dog ...
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Friday, January 9, 2009

We had to destroy the village to save it

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I can haz ... oxygen? The British documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed was aired shortly before the birth of Raised By Wolves . You can view t...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Whitney on Pip's Ancestors

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The army jeep of farm dogs: cheap, compact, low-maintenance, versatile, no-frills. It will not be improved by morphing it into a Lincoln Na...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

One more Not of The Body

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Mary Peaslee of Shepherd's Way sent me a link to this: Working Dog Diary Great stuff, fine writing. I'm going to enjoy devouring i...
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Monday, October 13, 2008

No Show

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The most thoughtful of the people who are not embarrassed to call themselves "fanciers" of dogs -- and even "in The Fancy...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

A Critique from Within?

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I got a low-salt spam from Amazon.com today. They think I might be interested in this (not yet published) book: SOS Dog Maybe they are righ...
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