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A guard llama protecting a flock of sheep. A guard llama is a llama that is used in farming to protect sheep, goats, hens or other livestock from canids such as coyotes, dingos, dogs, foxes and other predators. [1] [2] In the past, a single gelded (castrated) male was recommended. In more recent years, it has been discovered that single, unbred ...
Livestock guardian dogs protect goats, sheep, cattle, and chickens from predators which of course helps farmers and ranchers from losing animals on the farm (read: losing money).
A livestock guardian dog (LGD) is a dog type bred for the purpose of protecting livestock from predators. Livestock guardian dogs stay with the group of animals they protect as a full-time member of the flock or herd. [1] Their ability to guard their herd is mainly instinctive, as the dog is bonded to the herd from an early age. [2]
Goats have been used since the 1970s for this purpose, and there are sixteen goats that maintain the grounds, known as the "Chew Crew". There is also a donkey onsite that is used to protect the goats from coyotes. [18]
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A man in his bathrobe raced to save his chihuahua from an attacking coyote in South Carolina, video shows. “Roxie is a part of my family,” Timothy Snipe, who lives in the Charleston-area town ...
In Greece, between April 1989 and June 1991, 21,000 sheep and goats were killed by wolves. In 1998 it was 5,894 sheep and goats. [24] In southern Bulgaria, golden jackals were recorded to have attacked 1,053 sheep between 1982–87. [24]
The meeting comes less than a month after the state Natural Resources Commission waded into the controversy over coyotes with a 4-2 vote to prohibit coyote hunting from April 16 through July 14, a ...