neener92
Overrun with beasties
Well, here is my story... It starts out with getting a female blue heeler puppy 'Maci', I had a male 'Bentley' and wanted a female to make puppies and to have two herding dogs. (I know you're are wondering why I am talking about herding dogs when this is supposed to be about guard dogs...I'm getting there!) Well, I started having chickens disappear and I'd go out and there would be nothing but feathers, I thought for sure that little 10 week old puppy couldn't have been killing chickens! So, I tied Bentley older heeler (6 months) and still had chickens being killed....are you kidding me?! Surely not that cute pup! I tied Maci and there were still dead chickens! I tied both dogs and no chickens died. Ugh! Well I broke Bentley of killing them and at 2 and a half years he hasn't killed a bird! Maci grew up and I was hoping to breed them but it turned out the male is sterile, she was bred by our yellow lab mix anyway I got rid of that litter of pups and tried the next time...again the lab bred her, by that time bear hunters had shot the lab so I kept a puppy and left it with the sheep. Maci found her new home about 2 weeks ago when we had another "Maci massacre". The puppy we kept just started killing chickens at a year old after helping Maci take out a few of my hens. Now I'm trying to find a home for 'Bear', I think I've found one were he can be with sheep...he loves his sheep!
Anywho! I was looking on CL just browsing for a Great Pyrenees and found a 4 month old female for a reasonable price...those are hard to find! I am most def going to be working with her around chickens even though she won't really be guarding chickens...they free range. What are some things I can do to work with her to not eat my birds?!
Here is a pic of her, her name is Caroline.
Anywho! I was looking on CL just browsing for a Great Pyrenees and found a 4 month old female for a reasonable price...those are hard to find! I am most def going to be working with her around chickens even though she won't really be guarding chickens...they free range. What are some things I can do to work with her to not eat my birds?!
Here is a pic of her, her name is Caroline.