We are not planning another litter until Summer or Fall of 2025. If you would like to be added to our waitlist please email us at [email protected]
This landrace breed goes back to the older genetics of collie type farm dogs and is bred for both work and family life. Our dogs are extremely smart, easy to train, loyal to their family, and make excellent farm & family dogs that will help work stock one minute and snuggle up with you the next.
These are working dogs – they herd, guard, hunt, and also love children.
We value these qualities on our working beef and lamb farm in southern Minnesota and have carefully selected farm collie bloodlines that best fit our needs for work and companionship. Our farm collies go everywhere we go on the farm, and helps move cattle/sheep and goats daily during the summer months in our rotational grazing system. These dogs make lovely homestead and farm companions and when properly socialized are gentle with our lambs, kids, calves, chicks, bunnies, and children. We appreciate that they are athletic & highly intelligent/intuitive dogs but also much calmer than many other herding breeds.
PAST LITTERS
Brandy X Wash – DOB 12.20.23
Brandy X Sandstone – DOB 11.26.22
“. . . an amazing dog. She is very sweet and very smart. She has enjoyed going to petting zoos and helping round up animals. She helps herd animals back in their pens if they get loose or if I need to move them. She also loves coming along on rides and is very respectful to the horses and stays very close. She has been amazing at helping keep the animals safe with the other two dogs when she’s not herding and is very gentle with all babies.”
~ Storybook Farm pup owner
FAMILY HISTORY
My mom and her siblings often shared stories of their beloved childhood farm dog, “Mupsie”, who was an Old-Time Farm Collie/English Shepherd. She fascinated my grandpa – Mupsie allegedly knew which stall each dairy cow belonged in, and would put rogue livestock back in their place without direction. She followed grandpa around like a shadow, but played with all the kids. On summer nights when they would sleep outside all around the farm she would carefully check on each child scattered across the farm – all night long – and then be exhausted the next day. One of my aunt’s reminisced “We had a collie on the farm when we were growing up. She was good with the cows and gentle with us children; I was grateful for her friendship. I remember thinking that when no one seemed to understand how I felt, “that at least Mupsie loved me.”
ABOUT FARM COLLIES:
This landrace breed goes back to the older genetics of the collie and is bred for both work and family life. They are extremely smart, easy to train, loyal to their family, and make excellent farm & family dogs that will help work stock one minute and snuggle up with you the next. They herd, guard, hunt, and also love children. We value these qualities on our working beef and lamb farm in southern Minnesota and have carefully selected farm collie bloodlines that best fit our needs for work and companionship. Our dogs go everywhere we go on the farm, and helps move cattle/sheep and goats daily during the summer months in our rotational grazing system. Our foundation dam is from working english shepherd lines out of northwestern South Dakota and our sire is a scotch collie from a ranch in Oklahoma. Our dogs make lovely homestead and farm companions and are gentle with our lambs, kids, calves, chicks, bunnies, and children.
We appreciate that they are athletic & highly intelligent/intuitive dogs but also much calmer than many other herding breeds.
FARM COLLIE HISTORY IN ART:
Below are a few pieces of art from the late 1800s-early 1900s capturing collies from the past. We see many of these same expressions and traits in our farm collie.