Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd Association
I feel that breeding dogs is like providing other people with salt and light. Salt to preserve the goodness in life and give it flavor. And light to fill life’s dark rooms, so that we may see the goodness and hold on to hope. I came to dog breeding at a time after my wife … Read more
Please enjoy this free sample of American Farm Shepherds Illustrated compliments of the Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd Association. If you’d like to receive a quarterly, full-color copy of American Farm Shepherds Illustrated by U.S. Postal mail, you can subscribe here. The Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd Association is a Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation.
For a century or more, a culture and tradition has existed around the Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd dog. John Blankenship’s father rode into town on an old gray mare with a black and tan at his side to drive home the livestock he purchased. Walter Oglivie followed on horseback while a pair of … Read more
The 2021 2nd quarter full-color newsletter from the Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd Association was mailed today. If you had subscribed online, thank you for your patience. Now that I’ve done the newsletter process, I should be more efficient at it. If you mailed me a check, I held-off on cashing your check until … Read more
The Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd is an important foundational strain of the English Shepherd landrace. In accordance with best practice for effective landrace management, the Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd merits deliberate and carefully crafted intentional conservation that will benefit the landrace as a whole. Background “Landrace” refers to populations of animals … Read more
The 2021 first quarter newsletter from the Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd Association was mailed earlier this week. It was just 2 pages, in a simple format. The 2nd quarter’s issues will be 6 pages, full color. Here’s an sneak-peak, early draft of the cover page for the 2nd quarter issue, due out in … Read more
The Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd Association is a marketing and research organization formed in support of breeders and owners of Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherds. I offer a combination of free and paid services which include co-marketing, co-branding, research and consulting. I run advertisements in farm trade magazines, and I connect buyers … Read more
This brochure is released to the public domain under the Creative Commons license. You are free to use, modify and distribute this brochure in digital or print format. The license is linked at the bottom of the post. This work (Old-fashioned Black & Tan English Shepherd Brochure, by Old-fashioned Black & Tan English Shepherd Association) … Read more
The Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd Association maintains an Embark Results Comparison Tool for the English Shepherd Community. The database presently contains 64 English Shepherd dogs. The following report summarizes the frequency of haplogroup/haplotype occurrences among the English Shepherd dogs in the database. Haplogroup/Haplotype Frequency A1a_Y H1a.48_Y 14 A1e_MT A2a_MT 13 E_MT E11_MT 13 … Read more
