English Shepherd as Poultry Guardian

[centrarchid]

This was last pup trying to get into sled rides. Runs prior had multiple pups either jumping on or chasing kids down the hill.

 

[centrarchid]

Flower Bud (Flo) trying to get along with Lucy.

Only male pup (Fierce) showing an aptitude like his father to avoid taking a good picture.

Spot with similar looking sister Whitetail in the background.

Vanilla Chocolate (dominant female pup) that shows pattern allele that would make for brindle if she also carried the black allele. As she is, sable.

Flo between causing trouble.

Pups romping sometimes with Aseel stag.

or chewing on my chair.

 

[aart]

Great pics!

 

[centrarchid]

Not actually for sale to folks on this site owing to distance. Just showing advertisement as will be put out today locally. Timing not ideal as interested parties will not likely see advertisement until after first of January.

English Shepherd Puppies

$400 each

Born October 29, 2019

Available for Sale December 24, 2019

 

[centrarchid]

Coyotes coming close, maybe a quarter mile away last night. Coyotes howled while Ben and Honey did the repeated 3-bark sequence. My guess howling is aggression while the 3-bark sequence is a signal that we are not backing away. I would like the dogs to switch over to howling instead. Hopefully retained pups will help with that. Ben and Honey have howled a duet before.

Pups mauled my Blueberry plants this morning. I am having anger issues over that one.

 

[centrarchid]

Christmas crab results in zero waste. Humans eat the big meat pieces, chickens eat the little fibers and dogs eat all the shells. Pups clearly prefer shells. A couple were trying to dig into a pen to get a shell cleaned off by a chicken. Pups also showing interest in deer parts dogs are bringing back from woods. They are officially 8 weeks plus a day.

 

[centrarchid]

Pups getting better at going back to pen after a couple hours running about around house. I made mistake of starting to pen chickens first today. We follow a specific sequence getting chickens into 4 pens centered on house, but never with puppies in tow. Puppies kept going into pens making so chickens would not go in. We then corrected by saying barn and starting in that direction. Four pups were in barn by time we were half way there. Other two were at our feet. Pups went into pen, consumed a couple bites of feed then went into doghouse to sleep.

Prior to that after a trip into field the pups picked up a lot of cockle-burs. When we got back into yard Honey promptly went to removing the burrs from the pups using her mouth.

My son got first experience trying to stop pups messing with a hen. I am proud of his efforts as he kept his cool.

 

[fisherlady]

Sounds like you are already making good progress on basic training. For kiddo and pups, lol... these dogs have been pretty simple to teach in my experience, their intelligence and curiosity can sometimes get them ahead of where we expect though.

 

[centrarchid]

I have trained a lot of dogs over what is now decades. The new ground is a litter of pups and kids of my own. It is now easy to make adjustments as have experience to fall back on. This breed is not all that different from the hounds, Dalmations and German Pointers tackled before. Biggest difference with these pups is they are more dog aggressive from git-go.

 

[aart]

Prior to that after a trip into field the pups picked up a lot of cockle-burs. When we got back into yard Honey promptly went to removing the burrs from the pups using her mouth.

That's interesting!