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They also are good herding dogs, and usually weigh (girls) 30lbs, and males anywhere from 30lbs - 60 lbs. (60lbs if fat, ours is fat but he's stocky and sturdy). So they're somewhat small but good dogs and almost all you can find is working dogs. Mar 20, 2013. #3.
Her dogs are good workers, healthy, the parents are OFA certified, she has a guarantee and contract. Please try to dissuade your neighbor from trying to buy dogs trained or "guaranteed to kill coyotes". It is a bad idea and the dogs will eventually kill other things unless properly confined and managed.
But he does all this of his own volition and I think it was because he was raised out on an Indian Reservation hunting and doing wild things. However, I agree with the above poster. The job of a LGD is to "scare away" the predators before they ever get close enough. And I too can't fathom why 5 dogs wouldn't be enough for coyotes.
In the scent hound community there are tree dogs (coon & bear hounds) & running dogs (foxhounds & beagles). Top speed of fastest dogs are a little over 35MPH, but run sustained speeds of 15-25 MPH for distances of upto 40-60 miles in a day. Sighthounds- also called running dogs & longdogs. They use endurance and speed to catch coyotes.
When rounding up sheep or cutting out certain individuals the herding dog approaches low to the ground much like a hunting coyote. The sheep retreat before this approach BECAUSE it is predator like. When sheep that have been separated from the flock try to rejoin it, the herding dog drives them back and holds them in a tight group for the ...
Donkeys/Mules can be very protecting, yes they may try to get your dogs but like any animal if you work with it enough and get them used to your animals then it should be OK. They can be good guard animals just make sure you work with them. I have 2 jennys and a bunch of little dogs and have no problems.
however i have 2 big shepherds who guard me (and the property) and we just got a pup - from a hunting breed. our dogs keep the neighborhood dogs off the property and we got the hunter to handle our varmint problem (my shepherds herd not hunt). i also spend a lot of time training our dogs to help me work the property so they are invaluable. i ...
When Guardian Dogs Fail In the lower elevations where the bigger predators are not as populous, coyotes are the main problem. Anderson has literally sat in a field and watched packs of coyotes bait guardian dogs. “They get some coyote pups to start yelping off behind some brush.
The neighbors have two Newfies. I would LOOOVE to get a Newfie, I just can't get DH to get past the slobber thing. :/ We have two house dogs now (lab mix and beagle mix) the lab is a pretty good guard dog for the house, but she is 11 and is slowing down. We don't have a coyote problem yet, just racoons and skunks.
My across the street neighbor has 6' tall fences with barbed wire on the top and bottom and regularly shoots 2-3 coyotes a month inside his 20 acre fenced and crossfenced sheep pastures. He hangs the dead coyotes on his fences as a warning/ deterant to others. However that only works for only about a week.He regularly looses about 10-15 lambs a ...