Erudite Aust Cattle Dogs, Stock Horses and Kelpies

25/11/2025

24/11/2025

This gorgeous creature turns 1yo next week, and is growing into the most handsome stallion. The loveliest personality to go along with his movie star looks.
Erudite Super Nova
His paddock name was Tyson but as he’s grown it doesn’t suit him, so it’s been changed to Rowdy 😎

24/11/2025

So much of our mustering is driving and steering the stock in the way we need to go. Doesn’t mean that the dogs can’t get right around the stock. I’ve had to introduce an extra command though to make life easy. ‘Over’ and ‘back’ are just reposition while driving and when prefaced with ‘way’, like ‘way over’ and ‘way back’ that means to get to the lead and stop and/or hold them. The dogs are pretty good at working out the context of the job when I’m having a verbal shocker and call out the wrong commands 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

23/11/2025

When white cars are the draw card for the 160 steers in this paddock. They usually mean barley and lucerne hay has arrived.
Took a bit of hectic work to get them to walk away from the car and head in the direction we needed them to go. Send the dogs to the right, then to the left, then back to the right because the steers took any opportunity to come back to the car.
ACD is Ivy
Kelpie is Remi

19/11/2025

These steers have been fed hay and grain most of their lives from white Landcruiser Utes, so now mustering them in the same vehicle made for a lot of work for Ivy to turn them the other way.

17/11/2025

It’s been a slow burn with Jett, now 5 months old. Took awhile to form a bond/friendship with him, much longer than his older sister Quinn. As a result I kept him off sheep after his initial exposures.

Finally, in the last few weeks he’s decided listening to, and being with humans is pretty cool. So now we can start developing his skills on sheep.

As a 3 month old pup he showed a lot of direct walk up with alot of eye and stalk. Focus at the moment with him is to get around his stock and hold them together. His presence and power at this age is a little scary! We’ll be staying in the bigger paddock until he learns to harness it!

15/11/2025

What a lovely stud dog Budawang Usher turned out to be. In January it will be 2 years since he arrived from France. An epic journey for a teenage boy. Rural France across to Heathrow, UK, then on a plane to Melbourne with a stop over in Dubai. Then to sit in quarantine for 30 days.
So many leggy, smart and easy to live with youngsters out there. From Broken Hill to Bondi they just fit in anywhere.
Annnnddddd he finally worked out not to go down wombat holes 😆

13/11/2025

Just the sweetest age 😍 when their colour starts to come through, they’re more like gummy sharks, and tails begin to wag.

10/11/2025

Quinn’s younger brother, Erudite Jett. Look at the head on him at almost 5 months old!

04/11/2025

This Usher x Kimber boy flew to Tasmania on Monday, and has already been checking out his new workplace.
As a breeder I love that so many pups are going into commercial farms, to be utilised the same way we use them, as valued members of the working dog team. He’s a big, solid boy this one, who loved his food when he was here 🥩