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  • From: Josie Klapper <jstk AT swbell.net>
  • To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: deer, predators and dogs
  • Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:27:38 -0600


Howdy,
I have had really good luck/experiance with ChowChow's. They have been used
as LGD's in
their history, are increadably smart, and are fighting machines when they get
ahold of a
predator.
Mine can pick up chicks and bring them to me w/out harming them,
differentiat
between my birds, which get herded back to their pens, and my neihbors, which
get chased
back to his place.
Mine have also dealt with everything from racoons to cougars, and leave
the
neihbors' cattle and horses alone.
Josie

Leigh wrote:

> 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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