LGD which are the best breeds?

[AllenK RGV]

I have a chocolate lab, rottie pit mix and straight up pit mix that rock with my flock. I also have a chicken killer who is an Australian Heeler who doesn't, as she kills chickens.

 

[BlackHackle]

I have a chocolate lab, rottie pit mix and straight up pit mix that rock with my flock. I also have a chicken killer who is an Australian Heeler who doesn't.

I would look no further than Great Pyrenees. We had free ranging chickens with the dogs and they never killed one. They wouldn't even touch a dead chicken carcass

 

[50-45-1]

My best ever flock gardian dog is an Austrailian shepherd named Momo. I free range my chickens and Momo knows what belongs and what does not. He has rescued more of my chickens than i can count. He always has his nose on duty and would start barking and running off an we knew there was something lurking. Once we were working in the yard and the chickens went crazy, 2 seconds later a red hawk went flying by us with our banty hen Carmel Cream in its tallons, and Momo franticaly barking underneith. Well the hawk dropped the hen!
He is 13 now and has trained 2 other pups for us as he is slowing down. Our new trainees are a Ausie-pit bull mix and an Austrailian cattle dog. Momo has taught them well and they are as good at it as he is.
I have had to correct these new dogs around the chickens very little and mostly when they were pups. I think any dog breed can be taught to be a guardian IF they have the right temperment, AND training.
PS. We also have a German Shepherd that we rescued and she likes to chase butterflies...

 

[AllenK RGV]

Gp's would be great but I wouldn't put one in this Texas heat. My mutts were born and bred for this region. BTW all of them are street rescues that we have vetted even the cat.

 

[AllenK RGV]

My best ever flock gardian dog is an Austrailian shepherd named Momo. I free range my chickens and Momo knows what belongs and what does not. He has rescued more of my chickens than i can count. He always has his nose on duty and would start barking and running off an we knew there was something lurking. Once we were working in the yard and the chickens went crazy, 2 seconds later a red hawk went flying by us with our banty hen Carmel Cream in its tallons, and Momo franticaly barking underneith. Well the hawk dropped the hen!
He is 13 now and has trained 2 other pups for us as he is slowing down. Our new trainees are a Ausie-pit bull mix and an Austrailian cattle dog. Momo has taught them well and they are as good at it as he is.
I have had to correct these new dogs around the chickens very little and mostly when they were pups. I think any dog breed can be taught to be a guardian IF they have the right temperment, AND training.
PS. We also have a German Shepherd that we rescued and she likes to chase butterflies...

Wow I wish I could train this into ours. She lived on the street before we took her in and chicken were probably food for her for a while.

 

[Kylo_Hen!]

it depends on where you live try Plymouth rocks they are cold hardy and heat hardy look up pix their pretty

 

[AllenK RGV]

I do not have a single non street rescue dog. I don't think changing my chicken breed would change anything.

 

[centrarchid]

Akbash. Some appear really heat tolerant and some are relatively long lived.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Akbash. Some appear really heat tolerant and some are relatively long lived.

Well at chicken o'clock tonight....we had to go out and get mosquito bitten looking for one last bird again. She was high up in a tree. No worries an owl or ocelot will take her tonight but we are thinking of clipping their wings as the neighbors dogs will.

 

[centrarchid]

Well at chicken o'clock tonight....we had to go out and get mosquito bitten looking for one last bird again. She was high up in a tree. No worries an owl or ocelot will take her tonight but we are thinking of clipping their wings as the neighbors dogs will.

I had to police 20+. My Pointer points them out as we pick them up. The English Shepherd pup in training is learning not to bites chickens even when they run into your mouth. Also still learning about hotwire. We do have owl worry as a GHO comes in every night.