Super Saturday

We had another day with warm temps on Saturday... cooler than the day before, but 45 is better than 15!  I'll take it!  I had a Beachbody Super Saturday event to go to in the morning in Indianapolis, but I knew that when I got home I was going to get some stock work done.

I decided to work Savvy on ducks this time because I was just too tired and lazy to deal with mucking through all of the mud in the dry lot (funny, I know),  to get sheep out.  So we sorted of a group of Magpies and worked them in the duck arena.  Then I was reminded of why I don't like those damned Magpies and want to sell them all in the spring.  Ugh.

Since the tarps are all off of the back fence for the winter season, they were really tough to get out of the back corners or off the back fence to fetch.  So I decided that I would focus on some good basics with Savvy and work through the problem.

The first thing that I stuck her on was leaving to get around the ducks too quickly.  Any time that she was too fast, I would down her, then send her again.  After a few times she got the drift.  She really did NOT want to soften herself to bring the ducks out of the corner, so I stepped forward to help her out and give her some confidence and keep her from crossing over.

The ducks were just TURDS.  The hens would run back over Savvy if she downed and just generally weren't wanting to play, so I would step up and help Savvy get some confidence to figure out how to push on them to keep them moving.  It took a lot of cheering, but I did see her make some progress.

Once Savvy got them out of the corners, I would let her drive down the fence line for her "cookie", but I still made sure that she was on a flat footed walk and I would down her when she was too fast.  It was a tough mental workout for Savvy, but I'm starting to see some progress.  Those ducks might be tough nuts to crack, but it's good work for Savvy and I!