Livestock Guardian Dog (LGD) & Herding / Working Dog Breeds Listing

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You'll find the breed page project instructions here: http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=13787
If you want to volunteer to do a page, please PM me
Breed List of Livestock Guardian Dogs:
Abruzzese Mastiff
Akbash Dog
Anatolian Shepherd Dog
Armenian Gampr dog
Bucovina Shepherd Dog
Carpathian Shepherd Dog
Co de Castro Laboreiro
Caucasian Shepherd Dog (Caucasian Ovcharka)
Central Asia Shepherd Dog
Co de Gado Transmontano
Co da Serra da Estrela
Dogo Sardesco
Great Pyrenees
Greek Shepherd Dog
Himalayan Sheepdog or Bhote kukur
Kangal Dog
Karakachan Dog
Karst Shepherd (Kraki Ovčar)
Komondor
Kuvasz
Leonberger
Maremma Sheepdog
Mioritic
Perro Majorero
Polish Tatra Mountain Sheepdog (Polski Owczarek Podhalański)
Pyrenean Mastiff
Rafeiro do Alentejo
Sage Koochee
arplaninac
Slovak cuvac (Slovensk čuvač)
South Russian Ovcharka
Spanish Mastiff
Tibetan Mastiff
Tornjak (Bosnian and Herzegovinian - Croatian Shepherd Dog)
Turkish Boz Shepherd
Herding / Working Dog Breeds
ALPINE SHEPHERD DOG Alpenhuetehund (in German)
ALTDEUTSCHER SCHAEFERHUND / ALTDEUTSCHER HUETEHUND
APPENZELLER MOUNTAIN DOG
AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG
AUSTRALIAN KELPIE
AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD
AUSTRALIAN STUMPY TAIL CATTLE DOG
BASQUE SHEPHERD
BEARDED COLLIE
BEAUCERON
BELGIANS
BELGIAN LAEKENOIS
BELGIAN MALINOIS
BELGIAN SHEEPDOG (GROENENDAEL)
BELGIAN TERVUREN
BERGAMASCO SHEEPDOG
BERGER PICARD
BERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG
BLUE LACY
BORDER COLLIE
BOUVIER DES ARDENNES
BOUVIER DES FLANDRES
BRIARD
CANAAN DOG
Co Da Serra de Aries (PORTUGUESE SHEEPDOG)
Co De Fila De So Miguel (AZORES CATTLE DOG)
CAREA LEONES
CATAHOULA LEOPARD DOG
CATALONIAN SHEEPDOG (GOS D'ATURA)
CHODSKY PES, or BOHEMIAN SHEPHERD
COLLIE (ROUGH AND SMOOTH)
COOLIE
CROATIAN SHEEPDOG
CUR BREEDS
DUTCH SHEPHERD
ENGLISH SHEPHERD
ENTLEBUCHER SENNENHUND
GERMAN COOLIE
GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG
GREATER SWISS MOUNTAIN DOG
ICELANDIC SHEEPDOG
KOOLIE
LANCASHIRE HEELER
LAPPHUNDS (FINNISH LAPPHUND, LAPPONIAN HERDER, SWEDISH LAPPHUND)
McNAB
MINIATURE AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD
MUDI
NEW ZEALAND HEADING DOG
NEW ZEALAND HUNTAWAY
NORWEGIAN BUHUND
OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG
OLD FARM COLLIE/FARM SHEPHERD
OLD GERMAN SHEPHERD
OVELHEIRO GAUCHO
PASTOR GARAFIANO
PICARDY SHEPHERD
POLSKI OWCZAREK NIZINNY (POLISH LOWLAND SHEEPDOG)
PORTUGUESE SHEEPDOG
PULI
PUMI
PYRENEAN SHEPHERD
ROTTWEILER METZGERHUND
SAMOYED
SAVOY SHEPHERD/BERGER DE SAVOIE
SCHAPENDOES
SCHNAUZER
SMITHFIELD
SHETLAND SHEEPDOG
SHILOH SHEPHERD
SPANISH WATER DOG
SWEDISH VALLHUND
WELSH CORGI, CARDIGAN
WELSH CORGI, PEMBROKE
WELSH SHEEPDOG
WHITE SHEPHERD, SWISS WHITE SHEPHERD
 

77Herford

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Several of these dogs aren't recognized breeds. I know dogs pretty well and I haven't heard of many of these breeds. I don't know if all these would be good for protecting ones herds, some would be good for herding.
 

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There are breeds on that list that are very common in other countries. Remember that the forum is an international one :)
 

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Sunny & the 5 egg layers said:
How about Border Collies and Australian Sheperds?
I think those are more of a herding dog only, not a guardian for livestock :) That is most likely the reason they are not listed.
 

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Pumpkinpup said:
Sunny & the 5 egg layers said:
How about Border Collies and Australian Sheperds?
I think those are more of a herding dog only, not a guardian for livestock :) That is most likely the reason they are not listed.
Correct - this list is purely guardian dogs.

I suppose at some point we may want to add farm working dogs as a list and point of discussion.
 

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elevan said:
Pumpkinpup said:
Sunny & the 5 egg layers said:
How about Border Collies and Australian Sheperds?
I think those are more of a herding dog only, not a guardian for livestock :) That is most likely the reason they are not listed.
Correct - this list is purely guardian dogs.

I suppose at some point we may want to add farm working dogs as a list and point of discussion.
:lol:
A new list for you Elevan...:gig
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Considering the line of work that I used to do, lists are easy. What am I finding a little harder? Getting volunteers to build breed pages ;)

I need volunteers to build LGD breed pages, if anyone is interested please let me know via PM. Thanks!
 

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77Herford said:
elevan said:
Pumpkinpup said:
I think those are more of a herding dog only, not a guardian for livestock :) That is most likely the reason they are not listed.
Correct - this list is purely guardian dogs.

I suppose at some point we may want to add farm working dogs as a list and point of discussion.
:lol:
A new list for you Elevan...:gig
:hugs
Excuse me 77. (Waiting for the giggles to stop)

Don't YOU have new puppies? And what are they doing right now other than peeing your your lambs heads?

Why don't you volunteer?

(cricket sound)

:)
 

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Ms. Research said:
77Herford said:
elevan said:
Correct - this list is purely guardian dogs.

I suppose at some point we may want to add farm working dogs as a list and point of discussion.
:lol:
A new list for you Elevan...:gig
:hugs
Excuse me 77. (Waiting for the giggles to stop)

Don't YOU have new puppies? And what are they doing right now other than peeing your your lambs heads?

Why don't you volunteer?

(cricket sound)

:)
Well aren't we brave to say that... Oh I don't do anything, I just lay around all day on my Full Scale farm. Maybe Ms. Research could chip in with her three bunnies.

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