I bought a 2 way sorting gate from Premier so I would have it for the farm trial in 2 weeks. Well I have been thinking about how to set it up for 2 weeks since I got it here. I finally decided to put it temporarily right where they are going to have to do a sort for the trial. I was unsure how it would work there because it is really designed to go on a fence line and not butt up to another gate. Well a friend and I set it up and then added some 8ft panels to make a chute and it works beautifully. I have been playing with it for 2 days. It's amazing how quickly my dogs learned to put the sheep in the chute without my saying anything. Now if I can get Dare to stop pushing them through it a full speed, I may have something. Dually did fine at it.
I also went out to train a bit in the arena tonight. I worked on some stops and outs with Dare and then tried to pen the "light" sheep in the free standing pen. We got 3 in but it was tough going.
I worked with Dually too and worked the pen and after a rocky start , we got all 4 in and then we quit on a high note.
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