TRAINING HOLIDAY

From 2010 we are offering the option of visiting us for a Training Holiday, where you will able to bring your dog and come and visit us for training.

 During your stay you will have training sessions every day with my personal assistance. If you want to, you have the option of mixing  your training with some real sheep work on the farm. This will enable you and your dog to gain experience with real work on a day to day basis. You will also have the chance to see how I go about training my own young dogs.

 We have a unique set up where we lamb, shear, wean and dock lamb’s tails every second month, so the chances are that you will be able to experience most of these important aspects of sheep farming during your stay.

 Even if you do not have a dog, but want to experience working with dogs and sheep, you are also welcome.

 For our overseas friends who would like to bring their own dog with them, we are experienced in travelling with dogs abroad, so will be able to assist and advise you on the best way to travel with your dog.

 Please contact us for more information.

For a couple of years now I have done some contract work during harvest time. I operated a combine for a rather big outfit. We would normally take two months to harvest more or less 3000ha. The machine I worked on was a 2388 Case International. It was very advanced hi-tech machine. It had a harvesting capacity of about 20 - 25 tons per hour. This specific combine also has a leveling system called a hill-co set. This enabled the machine to stay level even on the steepest hills. It had an air conditioned cab with a very impressive computer.

(Competing at Soldier Hollows & Meeker, and Judging the USA finals)

I was supposed to write this on the flight home, but as usual that did not work out. So here we are almost three weeks back at home after our month long trip to the U.S.A. and thinking back on the trip, one thought goes through my mind ''a great experience''.