Hi Everyone!
My name is Maddy. I live in Tasmania on a beautiful 23 acre property 20 mins from Devonport. My family and I recently moved here from northern victoria(It has been hard to get used to the sheer greenness of the countryside compared to that up north).
We have a Coolie stud, Wonnangatta Working Dogs and own 6 wonderful Coolies, who we all adore.
Out of our 6, two are my own, Nancy (a 3 y/o who we aquired January last year) and Tully who is turning 1 on the 21st April (which he is very excited about). I am currently training Tully the basic stock commands, and re-educating Nancy while we search for some suitable sheep to buy. I love both dogs to bits!:hearts:

Here is a recent pic:
(from l-r) Evelyn, Zip, Darcy, Nancy, Tully (tri) and Skeeter.


I look forward to meeting you all and chatting with fellow Coolie lovers.

BTW, these emoticons are sooo

Welcome Peejy!! And to your koolies and to all your other dogs too!!
Everyone is very welcoming and friendly and we'd love to here more of you and your dogs! I hope you have fun joining in with some of our interesting conversations and maybe some of our more off tangent ones!!!

Peejy

What a great lookin' crew you have thee> looking forward to hearing about all their Koolie antics!

Wow, what a good looking mob....they are stunning, That picture is fantastic, how did you get them to all stand still for the picture

I look forward to hearing more about your Koolies!!!


Helen

great pic just love it i think i would have to hog tie half of mine to make them all stay still in one place lol i must work on that as i think mine would make a very colourful pic together lol HO! sorry i forgot to say welcome i think i can say for all of us can't wait to see lots more pic's of your stunning guy's and hopefully some working pic's to.

Welcome. Hope you'll like it here.

Hey Maddy still taking great photos I see, Tassie will make one awsome backdrop, any chance of getting a permission slip to allow us to use some of your many terrific photos, we know we will see in the future?

I add my own welcome to you and know you will enjoy your time with us, as so many before and yet to arrive have and will.

Can you tell us about your signature it looks to be a drawing, did you do it, we have some very good artist and writers here, we all seem to share similar appreciations for many interests. so don't hold back.

Hope you find your sheep soon.

Hi Maddy and welcome
I have been trying to work out where I seen your dogs. Like them very much especially your blue merle one (sorry cant remember the dogs name) and Tully he is a very nice boy. Are you by any chance Barakee and breed the horses I have seen your other website with the horses. They are beautiful. I havent heard of them before but they are nice. If you are her hi nice to catch up with you again if not sorry about the confusion and hi again you learn heaps of stuff here
cheers
Danni

ps that photo you have on here gorgous. I've seen others they are brilliant.
cheers
Danni

Welcome to the forum ... beaut photo

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

I'm glad you's like my photo, It was easier to get the dogs to stay in position than I thought it was going to be. I guesss all the basic obedience training I've done with them paid off! They just stayed in their positions as i waved a plastic bag around (to get their attention) in 1 hand and took the shot with the other.

Tjukurpa- I made my siggie in Paintshop Pro XI, it was quite easy to do (much easier than drawing )

Dannimilo- No, I am not Barrakee, she's my Mum, you have probably seen pics of our dogs on other forums that Mum is on :) Thanks for the compliment about our horses. I'm glad you like them.

I think i will like it here very much .. I am sick of the politics and nastiness etc. that go on on other sites.

Arhh Now I know I thought I might have gone a bit strange LOL
The three dogs are the ones that gave that away Zip Darcy Skeeter. Unusual names seems to stick in the head. LOL. What's the history of those horses as I have never heard of them before till I saw the Barakee site.
cheers
Danni

Welcome Maddy, glad to see you found your way here OK. I hope you enjoy it here - it is definately a much more friendly place, I hope you feel comfortable enough to join right in

This forum is the best one yet, that I have been on and there isn't any nastiness or politics in here. What a wonderful herd of hounds you have there. Very stunning. So how cold is it in Tassie at the moment? Welcome again and don't hesitate in joing in the many varied converstations that go on in here.

Hi Maddy and Welcome!
What a stunning photo. I've just had a look through your website (and your mum's Koolies and Morab site too). Gorgeous dogs, horses and magnificent photographs. You are very talented!! We just have the one Koolie. His name is Choccy and we rescued him from the Lost Dogs Home in North Melbourne. We also breed Arabs. Great crossed with the Morgan - super endurance horses!
Look forward to chatting more.

Regards
Nikki

Thanks Silhouette, Ceejay and Roheryn for your welcomings!

Dannimilo- The Morab horse is the resulting breed when you cross an American Morgan Horse with an Arabian. You can read more about the Morab on these links:
The Morab Breed Profile (This is a breed profile I did a few years ago. It's a pdf file)
http://www.puremorab.com/info/FAQ.php

Ceejay- Thanks! Down here it the weather is beautiful, sunny and about 19 degrees almost every day, although the nights and morning are very chilly . The dogs like it much better down here, they laze about in the sun for hours.

Roheryn- Thankyou! I've heard of your stud (roheryn park isn't it?) before i think.
Yes, Morabs do make excellent endurance horses, there are a few successful endurance morabs in Vic.

You're welcome Maddy. Yes we are Roheryn Park. Just a very small stud and we only breed the occasional foal. Too expensive trying to feed everyone now and our mares are mostly very old (mid to late 20's) and have shut up shop. Everyone is basically enjoying retirement. I think drought is a permanent thing here unfortunately.

There are some very successful Morabs going around. What is your mum doing with hers?

Nikki

Your Morabs look beautiful Peejy!!

If anyone wants some rain I'll try and send some - our backyard is a squishy mess and Paxy hates it. I'm thoroughly over it

OOOOHHHH Darcy with the Irish spotting looks the business? What's his story? If I could find a bitch like that. I'd be set.

Is it just the photo or does Zip(?) 2nd from left have one eye smaller than the other? He might just have a squint or be winking in this photo!

shaunagh - LOL, Darcy is female, we only have one male (tri- colour), a lot of people make that mistake. Darcy doesn't have any irish spotting so i'm not sure whether you actually mean darcy or skeeter.
Here is a seperate pic of darcy (by Tjukurpa Spike):


And skeeter (she is darcy's mother), she has lots of irish spotting


sorry to be so confusing

Bluedog - Haha.. I never noticed that 1 of Zip's eyes looks smaller than the other in that photo, I'd say it's a squint, but you never know, it could be a wink

Isn't that funny, obviously I need more education but that's what I've always called Irish spotting Please. ASAP what are the white markings called, if not that? Now, here are my lunatics.http://koolie.net/exons/index.php?act=post&do=reply_post&f=14&t=1506 Well therir story,sort off.Here are them, the blody pests! http://koolie.net/exons/index.php?act=post...f=14&t=1506

Hello to Tassie anyways!

I give up on the internet,I really do. Both the dogs are well bred drongos anyway, enuf said, K?....

Peejy/Tj - does Strike have white on him?
Darcy looks to me like a dog with one copy of the irish spotting gene (si) and one of of the no spotting gene S (that's a bit misleading - it seems if the dog has two copies of the gene it will have no white, but if it has only one, it will reduce the amount of white produced by the other gene - another case of incomplete dominance) - so I think she would be Ssi. Is that what you've been thinking?
Skeeter looks as you say Peejy to have full spotting - so she'd probably be sisi, so Darcy would have to be at least -si. And that makes me expect Strike to not have full irish spotting (be either Ssi and have some white, or be SS and not have white except maybe a chest spot, white toes etc)
If that makes sense (I think it makes sense to me...but don't always manage to convince others that it should make sense to them ;-)

Kooliemum hope you were referring to Spike or is there another Koolie with the name Strike.

Here's a photo of Spike, I don't take good ones.
But your should be able to tell his colour.

I hope that's what you were after.
If not disregard everything I have just posted and carry on.

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Spike at work

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Spikes new mum Larnni

Yes, I did mean Spike...what a stunning looking dog...
So do you think he is SS? That's what I am thinking...But in any case he would appear to have at least one S gene to pass on to Darcy.

OK from the pic of Spike it looks to me that he is a Ssi himself as he has a lovely big white chest...... hang on got to go the pups have just ripped up gypsy beds now i have stuffing all over the place.... got to love them NOT lol

I think it's possible, but not neccessary - a white chest spot does not need to be created 'by' a gene - it might just be that the colour didn't meet up there during his development. But, I agree (thats why I said 'he would appear to have at least one S gene').

On Sheila Schmutz's site, the picture of a Gordon Setter she has up to illustrate chest spots has a spot of equivalent size to Spike, and in that breed it certainly could not be because of the Irish spotting gene. http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/dogspots.html

your dogs are so cute[b]

your dogs are so cute

your dogs are so cute

Hi Maddy,

Im new here also (just posted my intro) and I live in Tassie also!!! YaY! Us apple-islanders! hehehe

I have just brought my first Koolie, Daisy, although she hasnt arrived here on the isle as yet, SOOOOONNNNNN and Im busting!

I live at Cressy, use to live at Deloraine & Hagley for many years, only recently moved here a few months back...

I also have horses use to have Arabians, but bad fall and now I have miniatures...they are a hoot...

Love to talk with you..

Deb & Daisy

welcome I am sure you will love this forum. I have to agree with Royalla I dont think I could get all of my dogs to stay in the same spot all at the same time I might be able to pull it off if I tie all there legs together and then tie it all to the log they stand on LOL. That would be the only way.
I loved you photo it sounds like you take excellent photos so I look forward to seeing more.
Ok anyways welcome again. This forum is very different to the others in a good way

Hi Maddy!

Thankyou for your PM, I tried to reply but it wouldnt go thru? grrrrr

I would love to meet up with you sometime! Please 'private'email me...