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- From: Leigh <lh AT pressroom.com>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: deer, predators and dogs
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:21:28 -0500
We have a bobcat problem. At night I can hear her out there yowling. Last summer she had a litter and she decided that our farm was the local meat market. The guineas that roosted in the peach tree dropped in population one at a time. When the chickens didn't get locked up at night, they got eaten. My neighbor (about half a mile away) complained yesterday that all of his geese were gone.
So, I'm looking for a good dog. I had a Komondor, and never lost an animal from predators, but several years ago he got bit on the nose by a copperhead and quickly died.
I've been look for a replacement but can't find one except from the show dog type of breeders (which I don't trust to know a working dog from a barbie doll).
I'm also open to another breed, does anyone have a favorite livestock guard dog and know of anyone that breeds them. I'm in Northern Virginia.
Great Pyrenees are occasionally advertised around here but I'm suspicious of a dog the books say roams.
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deer, predators and dogs,
Leigh, 02/02/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, Josie Klapper, 02/02/2001
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, Marie Kamphefner, 02/02/2001
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, David & Crystal, 02/02/2001
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, Marie Kamphefner, 02/02/2001
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, Karen Cannon, 02/02/2001
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, Jeffery Blake, 02/02/2001
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, Jeffery Blake, 02/02/2001
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, BBGREGSON, 02/02/2001
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, William E. Dellinger, International Food Congress, 02/02/2001
- Re: deer, predators and dogs, David & Crystal, 02/03/2001
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