Serrano Border Collies

19/10/2025

I took four dogs to the Boonah Stock Dog Short Course Trial held in the under cover arena yesterday. It was an excellent event with two arena running continuously. The management group are to be commended on their efforts to secure the use of the facility and to have the foresight to set up two working areas with the sheep in the middle. It worked unbelievable well. I was lucky enough to come home with a win with Serrano Rusty and a fourth with a 12 month old female, Serrano Omo.

11/08/2025

Moved this mob of heifers today for one of my neighbours, it's that wet here taking the buggy in a lot of places is not an option and riding a horse is not an option for me these days, so on with a rain coat and bum boots and off we went with the sheep dogs. 8 kms later and a bit of breaking in and they were like milking cows. The team were all home bred consisting of Rossco, Mini, Ivy, Opal and Rusty.

03/07/2025

On our way home from a days mustering and cattle work

05/10/2024

An update on Ivy and here pregnancy to Me Mate Storm Boy. Ivy underwent an emergency cesarian on the 20th September. There were complications which resulted in 4 live pups that Liz Brown and the vet nurses worked on to save their lives. There was one pup that didn't make it as well. They came home that day and spent their first week inside with the aircon set at 30 degrees. Unfortunately there was another pup that passed away so now there are three vey healthy pups. I have attached some photos of them at a couple of days old, note the green colour of the white markings. This indicates a difficult birth that almost took their lives. Yesterday I weighed them (2 weeks old)with the following results, white/black male 1.5kg, white/black female 1.3kg and the black/white male 1.1kg. They are doing very well now and some of the recovery and growth I put down to a product I use called Whelp and Grow. I have used it on my greyhound pups with excellent growth rates. Well worth trying with your bitch and pups. Because of the complications I may never breed with Ivy again, I have therefore decided to retain these three pups. I'm sorry for any inconvenience to anyone that has contacted me seeking a pup from this litter.

21/07/2024

Serrano Ivy has been AIed to Me Mate Storm Boy. Ivy is a litter sister to Clinton Hall's Rooster and Jill. They are sired by Serrano Ruff from Serrano Missy. Storm Boy's pedigree is pretty impressive.

26/03/2024

This an interesting young dog from a brother/sister mating. He is a strong work dog that I have started running in sheep dog trials. .

28/01/2024

At Australia Day in Sydney with Our Cow

19/09/2023

A neighbour ask me to do a little mustering job while running the dogs so they all got a bit of work. I didn't know they took this video until last week.

08/08/2023

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07/08/2023

07/07/2022

I have been listening to some Australian stockdog people lately and I have been trying to get a handle on what it is like to work a dog in Australia..what th...