On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:42:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >We think were dealing with a combination of coyotes and bobcat maybe even >a cougar. All have been seen here one time or another. >The sheep are being kill right in day light. So keeping them in the barn >for night doesn't help, so far all day kills. Our neighbor has lost he >said half of his lambs this year. Were talking around 8 to 12 lambs >already. He said his sheep are so scared they wont leave the barn and he >has to feed them because they wont go out to graze the grass. >What do you guys do to protect your animals? Is there another kind of >animal I can run with the sheep to protect them? I've heard a burro would >help but can't find any around my area. Help!!!
How sad! I don't have pastures full of sheep, I have pet lambs on a few acres. I've got 2 Great Pyrenees & an Akbash that were raised as house dogs (wonderful-all of them, all neutered males). But I've come to depend pretty heavily on those 3 to keep stray dogs Far AWAY from our fenceline. We're out in the country and stray dogs is the biggest problem around here. I just got an Anatolian Shepherd mix puppy that I had every intention of raising in with my lambs. Because of my situation it's kind of hard to have 1 outdoor dog and all the rest in and out though so while he's wonderful with the lambs, he's being raised as a indoor dog. When I leave and at night I leave one of my Pyrs or my Akbash out front with the lambs. It just makes me feel better knowing they're with the lambs. I don't trust most my other dogs with the lambs (or goats) but these I do. My suggestion would definitely be a good livestock guardian dog. I got my Anatolian (mixed with another LGD breed) because he's colored exactly like my Barbado lambs. It's not easy to find an already trained livestock guardian dog, they're expensive and worth their weight in gold. But it might not be too difficult to find a 4-6 month old that's been raised around livestock that you can put in with your sheep to bond with them. It's definitely something to research on your own as there's alot that goes into it. Mitzi Oklahoma =============================================== This message is from the Barbados Blackbelly Sheep mailing list (http://www.awrittenword.com/listserv/index.html). To respond to this message, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe or change your membership options, go to http://lists.coyotenet.net/mailman/listinfo/blackbelly To search the archives, go to http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
