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    Show Off Your Horses!

    Quote: Gorgeous and I love that horse laugh !!!
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    Show Off Your Horses!

    Quote: When I got my Arab, he was always mouthing the bit and I used a snaffle and then went to the more gentle broken French snaffle. It wasn't long after I got him I went to riding in a halter and he was fine ... then I found a "jumping cavasan" they told me it was called, but a bridle...
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    Show Off Your Horses!

    Quote: Beautiful companions you have !!!!
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    livestock guarding dogs to protect flock?

    Quote: The sooner the better This one is 5 weeks old: http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k238/Bearfootfarm/Pupforsale015.jpg forgot to include the photo in my previous post. Adorable puppy !!!
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    livestock guarding dogs to protect flock?

    OMGosh that puppy is just adorable !!!!! so very cute and smart too !
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    livestock guarding dogs to protect flock?

    Peck said: Sooner the better. We had our Maremma Sheepdog with the chickens at three months old with supervision, at 6 months together but separated at night, and by one year together without any supervision. Never lost a chicken but not sure about how others feel about it. It helps if the...
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    Pic taken while I lived in Doney Park AZ

    These are not my chickens, but am posting because it so seems to represent the huge amount of personality chickens have ... so much fun.
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    Show Off Your Horses!

    thanks, they all have too much personality for their own good haha I hear ya ... I have an Arab and when we moved to 2 A we adopted a nice Appy who is blind in one eye and they absolutely love each other. My Arab was jumping fences before we moved from Flagstaff to visit neighbor horses ...
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    Show Off Your Horses!

    Quote: Oh My ! Such beautiful horses you have ! They all look so perky and loving !!!!
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    Show Off Your Horses!

    Quote: Purdy! Awwww shucks golly gee, THANK YOU !!!! Soon they will have Rhode Island Reds to keep them company !!
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    Livestock Guard Dogs -- UPDATE: puppy home! (pics)

    Quote: Ya know, that reminds me we had 3 geese when I was a kid with the chickens, etc., and the geese were very agressive ... that is an idea I had not thought of ... not barking and won't eat the chickens ... any suggestions for breed of geese ... do they need company like get 2 ? I had a...
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    Livestock Guard Dogs -- UPDATE: puppy home! (pics)

    Quote: thank you ~
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    livestock guarding dogs to protect flock?

    Quote: Thank you - very helpful ... at what age do you put the puppies with the chickens to bond with them ?
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    Livestock Guard Dogs -- UPDATE: puppy home! (pics)

    Quote: This was too funny to pass up ... your personality reports matches all of the research I have done online re LGDs... they do not do well with violent training methods, are very independent and will make decisions based upon their own judgment ... what they were breed for. What I have...
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    Can I free range 3.5 month olds?

    thank you ... so if I am out with them, how old might the chicks be when they can be out free without wire protection ? What do folks do if they decide not to get a rooster with the hens and want to free range ?
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