market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Market Farming
List archive
- From: marc AT aculink.net
- To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: market-farming digest: February 02, 2001
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:15:18 -0700
There are many breeds that can be coarsely referred to as
big dogs. Shepherds, Guardians, retrievers or whatever.
LGD's (large guard dogs) are working dogs of rather ancient
breeds that are an integral part of stable and sustainable
pasturing and agrarian societies to this day.
Typically they are rather non hyper and sparing with the
rations. An inefficient LGD would not be a sustainable
option for a agrarian society of limited means and
resources. Shepherds could not afford luxury doggies - the
LGD had to be profitable and efficient for what it did. It
genes were not allowed to reproduce if it didn't fit the
desired mold.
That they are hard on wildlife is again not profitable. A
LGD that runs after "wildlife" is not a good guardian and
probably again would be eliminated from the gene pool. If
they are protecting property, resources and livestock then
that doesn't qualify as being hard on wildlife - they are
protecting things dear to their master and demonstrate
desirable genetics.
There are many good web sites on LGD's that perhaps can help
you learn about breeds of working dogs that are VERY useful,
sustainable, efficient and quite desirable to dirt poor
agrarian folks trying to raise some protein.
A informative site:
http://www.lgd.org/
Sincerely,
Marc Nameth
Subject: Re: deer, predators and dogs
From: "William E. Dellinger, International Food Congress"
<hunger AT hunger.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 22:01:30 -0600
X-Message-Number: 23
Solving the problem of deer with dogs is somewhat
troublesome to me, when I consider
that American dogs consume more protein than many people in
the world. They are also
often very expensive to feed, and are very hard on wildlife
and ecosystems.
Deer however are becoming a national concern, reportedly at
a population of 26 million.
I don't know the answer, but big dogs, and I love them, are
also a problem.
BBGREGSON AT cs.com wrote:
> Yes, we had a definite problem with our male barking all night. He was a
> wonderful dog, but loved to roam, which was his final undoing on a highway.
>
> Bonnie Gregson
> Island Meadow Farm
> Vashon, WA
>
- Re: market-farming digest: February 02, 2001, marc, 02/03/2001
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.