What do you use to guard your flock?

[Rebel Rooster]

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Great idea!!

 

[boaz]

I think a bit depends on the setup that needs to be guarded and how, this is an opinion. If you have multiple coops or need a mulitiple purpose dog, the GSD is the best in the world at guarding and intermingling with ranging fowl. However, if a stationary or fixed setup is what you want, the GreatP is a lot more laid back, and does not seem to have to work too hard to be satisfied. My experience is that the GPs work best in an enclosure of some sort, behind the fence in other words.

Most dogs have to be trained not to eat chicks, ducks etc. If they mess up, it does not mean that it is a permanent trait or issue. Sometimes it is mistaken identity, my owners forgot to feed me or gave me a bag of carrots as a meal and this looks a whole lot like fast food coming my way.

My wife Ruth has posts on our GSD, Rex somewhere.

 

[featheredfriendlover]

myself. i have little dogs that would run AWAY from anything. so all i have is myself and the roosters.

 

[antlers]

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I'd love to see a PIC of that please!

Otherwise here Mr. Havahart and Mr Browning do the job.

 

[Joecola123]

a dog and a rooster and sometimes myself

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

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What experience do you have with a Great Pyrenees? From earlier posts I read you and your wife recently bought a farm and are new to chickens. You own two German Shepherds.

 

[shaggy]

3 dogs .... they not only chase away the bigger predators ... but they also catch and kill rats

 

[boaz]

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What experience do you have with a Great Pyrenees? From earlier posts I read you and your wife recently bought a farm and are new to chickens. You own two German Shepherds.

We have about two hundred chickens, quail, ducks, peacocks; 2 German Shepherds, a MinPin, a Catahoula mix, and 2 Great Pyrenees. I have worked around dogs my entire life in one capacity or another. The best means to protect our animals has been a frequent point of discussion and I have talked to my neighbor about their GP, the feed store owner about his GP and the breeder that gave us the 2 we currently have.

We have had chickens for about 3 years. If my opinion was unqualified in your estimation, please feel free to disregard it.

 

[NotTheMomma]

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What experience do you have with a Great Pyrenees? From earlier posts I read you and your wife recently bought a farm and are new to chickens. You own two German Shepherds.

Read abit more, they also own two GP.

 

[emvickrey]

Before we moved our Lab kept predators away. Now Beauregard does it. We have a smaller space and he is chained where he is between the woods and the coop and he can reach almost all the way to the front of the coop. Here's Beauregard.