Advice needed re guard dog ASAP please!!!!

[mamachicken888]

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[watchdogps]

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I'd still consider you a novice to LGDs and pyrs, and that's not an insult at all, it just means you are new to them. Its very good tht you ave some experience with teaching another dog to be good with poultry, that def gives you a leg up if ypu decide to go with an LGD.
Like I mentioned, a rescue dog from the breed rescue, that has been tested with poultry may be great, but a shelter dog may be in the shelter for that very reason. As a founder of anatolian rescue, we got lots of failed LGDs in. Some could have been (and were) retrained, but it would have been a tough undertaking for a newbie. I don't know what pyr rescue does, but I know our rescue has some working foster homes that can evaluate dogs for their LGD appropriateness
Www.asdrl.org

 

[chicknmania]

Ok well. You're right it would not be an instant fix in any case. Just getting sick of this.


Thanks

 

[judyc]

You might think about an Anatolian, if you're looking for a LGD. I had Pyrs years ago. One of my females would lick a chicken to death if she could catch it.

Do you have any sheep or goats for the LGD to bond with?

Right now, if it were me, I'l put up a hot wire for the dogs, and put the chickens in a tractor until the hawks go away.

 

[P-Funk]

Decker Rat Terrier. He's just a baby but there have been no fox sightings since he showed up. He couldn't stop a hawk attack a few days ago, so the girls remain in the coop and run for now. He did stay with the big girls so only one of the babies was lost.

 

[AlienChick]

Check out the rescues around the country.

There was a dog posted on this rescue [ http://www.anatolianshepherdrescue.blogspot.com/ ] that was good around chickens.
They posted a pic of the dog laying down with chickens all around it.
I wanted to get the dog, but they said the dog was not good around goats (and I'll be getting some sheep).
But it was GREAT around chickens!

I don't think the dog is still available, but I saved the screenshot at that time.

 

[chicknmania]

Thank you for the ideas!

 

[watchdogps]

Chickenmania, I just saw you are in Central Ohio. I'm in Bucyrus. There is a NASRN foster home in Wooster, and they might have some dogs too.

 

[chicknmania]

OK thank you!

 

[dragonlair]

I have 10 dogs-6 Alaskan Malamutes (who would kill my chickens if given the chance), 1 Alaskan Husky (ditto the Malamutes), an English Setter (who will point at the birds and trap any loose chickens until i can catch them but does not guard them) and my 2 Great Pyrenees.

The Prys are great with the chickens. The older one I got when she was 8 months old. Her first 8 weeks of life was spent with mom, dad and a herd of 300 Boer goats, then she went to live in a house with no other animals. The younger one came form the same farm but was raised inside a house until i got her at 8 weeks of age. She has learned that the chickens are mine, and she does protect them. The older one protects the protects the property, which also protects the chickens.