remudal, Love your pics, your girls are be-u-ti-ful. So glad they are working out for you!
hencrazymom, good to hear your Therapy/LGD is dual purpose! Great Story
Mountain Man Jim, glad to hear that my LGD's will do fine on the farm. To answer some of your ?'s. I have been socializing the girls to DH and the boys. Dh and I take them for their training on the perimeters together most nights. The boys take them on walks and I have had everyone do the food training. I read doing food training teaches them the "pecking" order. Shows who is alpa.
I do have some other work to do with them though. We live on DH's homestead, his parents have worked the land for over 50 years and they are both 85 and live in a smaller house on the property (future guest house). I have waited to socialize the girls to them until I am sure they will not jump on them. I think I need to start having the girls get acquainted soon. I do still have some trouble with them jumping on me occasionally.
I have not introduced the mail man, meter man etc to the girls. I don't think I am going to. We are going to exclude the house and front yard areas (where the mail box, front door and meters are located) from the girls. Fencing is our big expense project for this spring and we are currently looking for our best deals. I have not decided how much of the 30 acres we are going to fence in. It all depends on our budget and price. I am also looking at adding an additional 30+ acres of pasture that joins our property so I won't be doing all 60 for sure. Right now the fence I have the girls in at times is 4 ft high. I know I am going to have to address this and SOON.
I have not been tying out the girls lately. I had a good amount of time off over the holiday and they have been free roaming. They do not wander very far and seem to want to sit on the hill overlooking the coop/goat pen area. They are sticking to the schedule I have adjusted them to as well. We do our chores in the morning, we do our laps around the pasture perimeter, bfast and then they go to the dog houses after about 15 minutes. The only difference is they are not tied out and they both sleep in one dog house, they don't have a preference though I've seen them both in each of the houses at any given time.
As far as the house training goes we did do 'some' when they first came to us. I kept them in the basement and used pee pads and took them out as much as I could while not at work. If I need to bring them in they will be in the basement. I will not have them in the main areas of the house. We keep our house too hot for them and I don't think they will be comfortable in the main living area. The basement is much cooler. I have tried bringing them in to the basement area while I was doing laundry and chores down there and they wouldn't come in. They prefer it outside but if our temp dips way low then I will have to make them come in.
Socializing with my two other dogs has been occurring. Genevieve and Sequoia are very interested in playing with my male Mufasa but he wants no part of them. My female Princess is not much for playing so she just stands there and looks at them. She is usually begging up at my in laws for treats when she is out anyway. I am doing something that will seem like I am a bit "off" though. I have an old cover coat that I wear outside. Mufasa marked this coat one day while it was hanging downstairs. I have left his scent on the coat and the girls smell it from my sleeve. This way they get my other dogs scent at all times they are with me.
Things are pretty much the same as far as training goes. I have noticed they don't get too overly excited in the morning when I come to let them 'off work'. I was having HUGE problems getting them to be calm and not jump all over me. I took many sharp claws to the face as I was greeting one dog just to have the other jump into my face. I wore a welt for two days once. So they are not jumping on me like they were and that is big for me. It's hard to try to control two puppies at once but I am getting there. Speaking of having two puppies at once, one of the things I would do early on to teach them their names was to put both hand on each one of their head and speak their names. So I would touch Genevieve when I was addressing her and vise versa. If I would not have done that I think each of them would have thought that their names both were "Genevieve Sequioa". Now if I call one the correct dog comes. It worked well because as I mentioned earlier in this thread Genevieve likes to be around the wood line so when I call for her she comes right away. Sequoia is usually right in sight.
I am still having trouble with the girls chasing the chickens from time to time. I have decided I am going to use a cow bell I have to get their attention. Telling them leave it works most of the time, but there are times when nothing I do seems to get them to stop. I had their dinner bowls in my hand one day when they began chase and I clanged them together loudly and they girls stopped in their tracks with the chase. I have put the cow bell in the chicken coop and when I let everyone out together I will be carrying that bell. I will let you know how it goes.
Sorry it took so long for a response, I have just subscribed to my thread so I get updates right away.
I am posting some more pics. This is how bfast goes in the morning and I finally had my camera on me and got some shots.
Here I just sat down bfast for the girls, the chickens were scratching around the compost pile and it didn't take them long to figure out it was chow time. tee hee
Genevieve doesn't mind sharing
Neither does Sequoia
Everyone wants a bite, good thing the kibble is too big for the chicks, at over 2.00 a lb for this dog food it's too expensive! They do try to eat it though
Sequioa says hurry up, I want to play now! No more fighting over food, I fixed that the first two days when I seperated them using a portable cage. I haven't heard as much as a growl at feeding time. They know they will get their fill so no need to quibble over it.
. And they are still so playful with eachother that I just wasn't sure so the lambs and mamas have been staying in a small paddock by themselves while the rest of the flock goes to pasture during the day, then all back together at night. When I walked out this morning, I saw Sophie streaking across the paddock and looked up to see a coyote. I havent seen one here in a couple of years now. of course, I had to go get feed and run errands today, but couldn't leave the lambs and ewes alone in the paddock. Soooo, I picked Sophie and had her join me while I did chores in the lambing barn and small paddock. Penny was turned out with the flock into the big pasture. Sophie showed playful interest when the lambs started their running and jumping so I gave her a strong reprimand. She never tried anything again, I ran my errands and came back to find mamas, babies and Sophie all asleep in the shade. 
