OK great Rod! this was my next question. No barking, and no jumping on my 2-year old kid or even acting protective and aggressive (but I suppose accidental stomping and/or kicking is a serious consideration).
was going to ask how people do with Llamas or donkeys? My goat breeder who is right smack next to the hills in cougar country, has not had one hit. Her fencing has way less integrity than mine, but she has always had at least 1 Llama. Now has 3 or 4. I have heard a female is better than a male to prevent the male from pestering the animals. But what about a gelded donkey or llama? -Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:50 PM, rodnas...@gmail.com <rodnas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Carol this is Rod from Texas, > The way I keep my black belly sheep safe because I have coyotes and silver > foxes. I got me and Jerusalem donkey guard donkey that is. Ever since then I > have not lost one Lamb, Ram, or ewe. It eats the same thing my sheep eat. You > can't separate him from my sheep he gets mad starts Bellari. It was the best > hundred dollar investment I ever made. > > > LLRB > HotRod 3% > IV Corps TX > ICVMC > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Carol Elkins" <celk...@critterhaven.biz> > To: <blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info> > Subject: [Blackbelly] Dead ewe, coyotes? or something else > Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 4:35 pm > > > Michael, in 2008 I had a cougar AND a pack of coyotes kill and eat > five 90-lb ram lambs in one night. All that was left when I found > them the next morning were rib cages, five stomachs (drug away from > the carcasses), and a few testicles. The cat had gone over the fence; > the coyotes dug under. During the two months that I waited to get a > couple of guardian dogs (Great Pyrenees/Anatolian crosses), I lived > under siege and patrolled the pastures a couple of times every night > with a shotgun. > > The cat came back two weeks later (apparently that is their regular > revisiting interval) and killed one of my ewe lambs. I interrupted > her at 2AM and watched her jump a 6-ft chainlink fence. She didn't > climb up it; she jumped it. I had 4-ft field fencing around all of my > paddocks. It stopped nothing until I ran a strand of electric wire > along the top. I also put railroad ties along the bottom, inside the > fence to discourage digging. And during that time, I also locked the > sheep behind bars at night; every opening to their sheds had hog > panel wired across it. > > The minute the guardian dogs arrived, the terror stopped. I've slept > well every night since them. Because you live in a populated > neighborhood, LGDs can create problems with their barking, so that > may not be an option for you, although you mentioned a dog sleeping > with the sheep. Perhaps get another dog or a better dog? If the dog > makes its presence known, generally the predators will stay away > because the risk of their being injured is too great. > > I know how if feels to discover the remains of your flock without > having heard a peep in the night. I'm sorry that happened to you. > > Carol > > At 11:17 PM 6/4/2013, you wrote: >>Or, was it the contents of her stomach after being killed, and then she was >>dragged? It was a rather large amount, and difficult for me to imagine >>any of the animals having that much come out at once, normally. Again, >>there appeared to be no blood on it at all. > > Carol Elkins > Critterhaven--Registered Barbados Blackbelly Hair Sheep > (no shear, no dock, no fuss) > Pueblo, Colorado > http://www.critterhaven.biz > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list > Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list > Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
