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  • From: Richard Sherrington <rgsherr AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Anyone Tried This?
  • Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:54:10 -0300

What kind of dogs do you have?
Richard

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Owsley lucy <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com>
wrote:
> That's how we have successfully defeated the deer, groundhogs, bunnies,
> etc., on our farm (which has a resident deer herd of over 250 head) for the
> past 17 years. I find a minimum of 2 dogs works best but at the moment we
> are down to one dog and still very little deer damage.
> And I have found the older dogs do a very good job of training the
> puppies/young dogs for the job, better than what we humans can do. Still it
> takes a minimum of 12 months to train a dog to do the job (which includes
> not doing a lot of damage themselves to the gardens via digging, stealing
> crops and walking on planted beds)
>
>
> On Aug 14, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Kathi L. Whitman wrote:
>
> Just curious, does anyone have dogs? I have a couple of good dogs and
> rarely, if ever, see deer or the results of damage from deer, raccoons, etc.
>
>
>
> Lucy Goodman
> Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
> Eaton, OH
> http://boulderbelt.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
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