Apr 29, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 31 segments
In this episode we sit down with Jacob Ryan from Jaymalar Working Kelpies and discuss everything from getting into dogs to what he is doing now.
Well, I think 'cause I've just worked in so many hills and just some of the creeks up in Queensland are sorta fairly thick, and they're sorta open on the outside of them, so I just, my dogs always sorta, sorta drift around trying to bring stock back to me if I try and send them into that sort of stuff.
And sorta when you're working with so many people that I was working with up there, you sorta had to be in the positions where a lot of buggies and that would be mustering.
So, so a lot of it would just be driving from behind until you get into a bit of a laneway or into a section where you did need to lead them out.
So sorta just get those, get the hunt away to get in behind and sorta just blow stuff out of the creeks and whatnot.
Actually, I really like your idea, 'cause that's another thing, like we don't really see a lot, many hunt aways working cattle either, right? Like-
Yeah, well, sorta every time I handle stock, I try and educate them in some description or way.
So when I go around mustering, I use my dogs on the back like a, like a hunt away.
I just get them barking and they soon work out when they're being mustered and when they're just being checked.
So if they hear a bark, I just want cattle to start mo- and sorta drift out of wherever they are into a mob.
And like a lot of the places that I've worked on, their cattle were really good, so it's sort of they just know that if they're being mustered, they had their certain ways that they had to go.
So you just help them sorta start on their way, like a lot of the cane and that, like-Just sort of make a little bit of noise, and they sort of start at the back, and they sort of start poking down to the other end, and it sort of made it a lot easier rather than riding up and down through the cane or...
Well, I think 'cause I've just worked in so many hills and just some of the creeks up in Queensland are sorta fairly thick, and they're sorta open on the outside of them, so I just, my dogs always sorta, sorta drift around trying to bring stock back to me if I try and send them into that sort of stuff.
And sorta when you're working with so many people that I was working with up there, you sorta had to be in the positions where a lot of buggies and that would be mustering.
So, so a lot of it would just be driving from behind until you get into a bit of a laneway or into a section where you did need to lead them out.
So sorta just get those, get the hunt away to get in behind and sorta just blow stuff out of the creeks and whatnot.
Actually, I really like your idea, 'cause that's another thing, like we don't really see a lot, many hunt aways working cattle either, right? Like-
Yeah, well, sorta every time I handle stock, I try and educate them in some description or way.
So when I go around mustering, I use my dogs on the back like a, like a hunt away.
I just get them barking and they soon work out when they're being mustered and when they're just being checked.
So if they hear a bark, I just want cattle to start mo- and sorta drift out of wherever they are into a mob.
And like a lot of the places that I've worked on, their cattle were really good, so it's sort of they just know that if they're being mustered, they had their certain ways that they had to go.
So you just help them sorta start on their way, like a lot of the cane and that, like-Just sort of make a little bit of noise, and they sort of start at the back, and they sort of start poking down to the other end, and it sort of made it a lot easier rather than riding up and down through the cane or...
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