Top Tips for Sheepdog Training (Part 6) Is Your Training Area Suitable?

If you're going to train a dog to work sheep, cattle or other stock, a suitable training area will help you keep control of the animals, while the dog learns that it's not to chase them all over the place!
This is free Sheepdog Training tutorial number six, in our "Top Tips" series about teaching your Border Collie, Kelpie or other sheepdog to herd farm livestock including sheep, cattle, goats and poultry.
These clips are shortened versions of the Sheepdog Training Tutorials on the Working Sheepdog Website.
We'll be posting plenty more in the future, so be sure to subscribe and you'll be informed when they are published.
Watch a preview of our online sheepdog training tutorials:
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Info on the tutorials "The Training Ring" (1 and 2):
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Info on the full tutorial "The Training Area":
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Our first series (of eight videos) is called Top Tips for Sheepdog Training and covers some essential basics of sheep and cattle dog training that you may not have thought of.
Some of the videos here, include references to the full online versions, that cover the topics in much greater depth, and you'll find links to more information below each video.
We've been producing sheepdog training videos since two thousand and nine.
You might know our DVD, First Steps In Border Collie Sheepdog Training - or the Sheepdog Training Tutorials on the Working Sheepdog Website.
TOP TIPS FOR EASIER SHEEPDOG TRAINING!
Part ONE - Remember the dog's hunting
Part TWO - Training a herding dog is completely different
Part THREE - Are you a suitable trainer?
Part FOUR - Is your dog a "gathering" breed?
Part FIVE - Are your sheep suitable?
Part SIX - Is your training area suitable?
Part SEVEN - Build your dog's confidence
Part EIGHT - Learn your commands

[@davidpsilva]

Good job man.. Is it possible to teach anothers dogs breeds (Rottweilers, german shepherd, malinois, labrador, etc) herding commands like: away and come bye?

[@aislingmurphy7]

No they aren’t gathering breed maybe with a lot of training but they would much rather just chase them

[@elymac5684]

Yes! Any dog can learn such commands for something like treibball, but when it comes to actual herding, there are other working breeds that may have natural herding instincts. I doubt retrievers would be much good, but German Shepherds, Rottweilers, beaucerons, corgis and several other breeds can also herd. Some dogs may have stronger natural instinct than others, and they work differently than border collies (more loose-eyed and/or originally used for driving) but can easily be taught to gather as they instinctually understand pressure and balance with handler and stock. I worked my Rottweiler on sheep and goats and she out-performed many border collies in her class.