- One of the things I've really started to enjoy doing
with my Border Collies is sheep herding.
Today we've come to the Holstein Agro Exhibit
and I'm going to be in my first sheep herding competition
with my 10-year old Border Collie, Mac.
I'm Ken Steepe and welcome back to McCann Dogs.
(dog barking)
(upbeat instrumental music)
Okay so the way this is gonna work for the pro novice class
is I'm gonna have to, or the handlers are gonna send
their dog out to pick up the sheep at the far end
of the field.
They're going to bring the sheep back down through
the fetch gates or panels.
They're gonna go around themselves,
around the handler's post and out to the chute.
Once you have gotten the sheep through the chute
you bring them back over and down through the panels again
and into the pen.
The pen is a pretty challenging part.
But we'll see how we make out with little Mac.
It just started raining a little bit.
I wonder if it's gonna get any worse?
We may have to pause the day if it gets really bad out here.
But we'll see.
I have faith that it's gonna blow past.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Come here, Bud.
That's a boy, here, good.
Calm boy.
Lie down, calm boy.
Lie down, wait, lie down.
Way to me.
Way, lie down, calm boy.
Calm, lie down.
Wait.
Shh, way.
Walk.
Lie down, walk.
Walk up, walk up, way.
Calm, lie down.
Lie down, Mac lie down, way, way, way.
Lie down, lie down, lie down Mac.
Oh way, lie down, Mac that'll do.
Mac that'll do, that'll do, lie down, lie down.
Lie down, calm.
Lie down away to me.
Shh, away to me.
Way, shh, lie down, calm boy, calm.
Lie down, lie down, lie down.
Walk.
Way, lie down, lie down, way, lie down.
Way, lie down, way to me, lie down, lie down.
Calm, calm boy, lie down.
Way, lie down, way to me, lie down.
Calm, lie down, lie.
Walk, walk, that a-boy, that a-boy, that a-boy, good boy.
Good boy, good, walk, walk.
(cheering)
Good boy, Macaroni, okay bud.
So we just ran our run.
It went incredibly well considering it's our first
actually trial and certainly in the pro novice class.
But I was really happy with Mac, he looked really great.
You can see how happy he is to run sheep.
So hopefully we're gonna wait and find out how we did
for the awards.
It would be amazing if we won something but to be honest
I'm just happy that we were able to pen the sheep.
That's certainly one of the more challenging aspects
to the sport.
So we're really, really happy and little Macaroni
did a great job, didn't you buddy?
Can you see catching his breath still.
It's pretty warm outside today.
- [Announcer] He certainly did that today.
Ken Steepe and Mac, third place.
(clapping and cheering)
- Thank you, thank you very much,
appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
Come on Mac.
Third place, I know I'm pretty excited.
Looks like Mac's pretty excited, too.
He did amazing.
I had no expectations 'cause I didn't know
what to expect, of course.
But I'm certainly happy with my little buddy here
in the pro novice class because Mac is the pro here,
I am the novice.
There's no question about it.
But I think he did amazing and I'm really, really happy.
I probably couldn't be any happier with this performance.
So I think he did a great job.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video and learned
a little bit about sheep herding.
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On that note I'm Ken.
Happy training, bye for now.