Practicing at Wolston Farm

While our Main focus is on teaching lessons and training dogs we do allow people to come and use our facilities to practice when they are not in use for other reasons. In order to ensure the safety of our animals and our clients we do have some requirements for practicing here. Availability varies depending on lesson schedules and other farm activities so please email lessons@wolston.com for availability.

Who Can Come

• Well established* handlers competing in the open class of USBCHA trials
• Our students looking for more practice time
• Regular students of another established trainer with the recomendation of said trainer

Rules

• You can sign up a maximum of 1 week and a minimum of 2 days in advance
• A signed liabilty release is required
• You can use either the big field or the arena but you must let us know in advance which one
• Someone will be there to watch but no advice or assistance will be given
• You can sign up for 30 minute blocks of time at $20 for the first block and $15 for additional blocks
• How you use the time is up to you, one dog or multiple dogs
• To keep things simple sesssions start and end on the hour and half hour, you are responsible for being on time
• If you want someone to set sheep for you it can usually be arranged at $5 per 30 minute session
• You will get one set of 5 sheep per block of time
• If the sheep get to the point of open mouth panting, or show other signs of distress before your 30 minutes is up your session will end at that point
• If your dog is overly agressive to the sheep you will get one warning, at the next incident your session will end
• If the dog, a sheep or the handler gets injured your session will end

*Well established handlers have been competing in open for at least 3 years and place in trials at least a couple of times a year or have raised sheep for at least 3 years