Karmala Vlad(Barney)(Driftwood Boondi x Karmala Vonny)WKC Reg. 65955 DOB 10/5/2019
Barney is owned by Lynnton Martin, who was my first puppy buyer after I moved to Queensland over twenty years ago. Over that time we’ve worked together to breed the same type of natural mustering dog, and when he told me about Boondi who was bred by Clayton Hegarty, I decided it would be a good idea to mate him to Vonny, who has a lot of old Riana lines. Barney was Lynnton’s service fee and has proved a very useful member of his team. Lynnton contracts stock work of all kinds, so needs versatile dogs.
He told me a rather hair raising story a few years ago, he thought Barney was gone for good!
He was moving a big mob of 2000 weaned lambs and had to get them over a long bridge…..the lambs started across moving well, and had just reached the other side when a car ignored the signs and people telling it to STOP and drove into the lambs causing them to break back around it, off the bridge and away into the scrub beside the creek. Lynnton and the dogs were way back, having got the tail of the mob onto the bridge, when Barney saw what had happened, flew over the side landing 15′ feet down on dry rocks and bush….Lynnton thought he’d lost him, broken legs and ribs at least…then saw him appear a couple of hundred meters away heading around the lambs that had broken away into the scrub! Barney didn’t appear any the worse for wear!
This is the breeding of a very good litter: Karmala Vlad x Karmala Mina Wyllie
I’ve used Barney as a sire previously and am very happy with his pups. Mina’s litter included Hacket, who is impressing Lachlan Cox up at Moranbah.
Videos of him working are available on Lynnton’s Facebook page Tynndyl Kelpies.
Barney was mated to Koonamara Nakara early Sept. 2023 and they got on extra well!