Collie pups for £1000+...,

And a son from last year tupping commercial ewes and a daughter to the ram this year. She's witnessed two dog attacks, umpteen other calamities, travelled half of southern england and is still going strong.

On a side note Jean Claude (the 8? year old ram) is now in Cornwall tupping easy care ewes with his new owner, with a full set of teeth.

Value for money?
 
There’s a pecking order!
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Exile_AM

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Trade
Drove Gloucestershire to Denbighshire to pay sticker price for our pup today, Welsh collie straight out the stables. First collie for me, wife more experienced with them. Couple of farmer dads from daughters school offered to help with training round sheep, wife thinks they’re after a future pup, but happy I’m making friends. With pedigree Texels in every other field I need to get her right, and not cause aggro round those expensive assets of the neighbours.
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Gator

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Lancashire
Lost my owd boy Dell in February, 14 years old, due to old age and his hips he was relegated to riding in the gator just to get him out, still wanting to work and please, As already said he knew every gate way and just where to go with out any telling him.Was a sad moment carrying him in to the vets.
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New addition Nell, 6 month old, shes got some boots to fill, fingers crossed.
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MRT

Member
Livestock Farmer
Funny to think in a year's time it would chew your arm off :LOL:
I hope so (appropriate chewings at least). We live in the middle of nowhere and yet had the police helicopter circling our place for an hour yesterday, huge numbers of armed and normal police, police dogs etc. None found the time to actually search our place or tell anyone what was going on, they spent thier time looking tough together on the side of the main road. Put the old bitch (IPO 3) through the sheds, caravan, office and every hidy hole I could think of before dark. Seems you have to look after yourself these days. (We know now it it was a manhunt after an incident a couple of hundred yards away)
 

sean m

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northants
I hope so (appropriate chewings at least). We live in the middle of nowhere and yet had the police helicopter circling our place for an hour yesterday, huge numbers of armed and normal police, police dogs etc. None found the time to actually search our place or tell anyone what was going on, they spent thier time looking tough together on the side of the main road. Put the old bitch (IPO 3) through the sheds, caravan, office and every hidy hole I could think of before dark. Seems you have to look after yourself these days. (We know now it it was a manhunt after an incident a couple of hundred yards away)
same here,if i had a problem they would be the last i'd call
 

Gator

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Lancashire
I hope so (appropriate chewings at least). We live in the middle of nowhere and yet had the police helicopter circling our place for an hour yesterday, huge numbers of armed and normal police, police dogs etc. None found the time to actually search our place or tell anyone what was going on, they spent thier time looking tough together on the side of the main road. Put the old bitch (IPO 3) through the sheds, caravan, office and every hidy hole I could think of before dark. Seems you have to look after yourself these days. (We know now it it was a manhunt after an incident a couple of hundred yards away)
same here,if i had a problem they would be the last i'd call
Same here, all the damage off readers did, not a sniff of um, last week sheep worried and still not a sniff, p1sses me off, too busy on group gathering and making easy money
 

pgk

Member
Shock last week to find the old girl collie had a single pup, dad is our huntaway, she was acting a bit dopey in the days leading up to whelping. Her winter coat hid that she was milking up. She was working right up to a couple of hours before whelping🙄
 
Just had a £1k for jack Russell pups, nearly didn’t have the balls to ask it but when you look on the internet that’s the price!!

I know someone locally who has a few dogs running round the place and breeds a litter of terrier pups each year, always crossbred border/lakie/JRT but with fantastic temperaments. He usually expects £1000- £1500 per litter, with preference given to repeat customers and has a nice holiday out of it. This year he said he will clear 10 grand from two litters and pay a lump off his mortgage!

I have a 14 year old Patterdale bitch, who I kept when I bred off her mother (who cost me a crate of Fosters). Once she's gone I'll get a gundog pup (but not a lab or spanner), as I've no work for terriers these days. I just hope prices come down before I start looking!
 

Bob the beef

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Scot Borders
I think the puppy price explosion might be over. our vets are inundated with people trying to offload dogs they bought last year. I saw the dogs trust saying they had something like 1300 phone calls during december from folk trying to give dogs up. They normally get between 200and 300. Heart goes out to some of these poor pups, sadly a lot of them will not able to be rehomed
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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