Post by loriandersen on Apr 11, 2012 20:10:06 GMT -5
We had gotten a GP from a couple that could not keep him home. We had him in our 6 electrified wire pasture with the poultry. He cought on quick to his job and did it well. But he ran off all the time! He was 3 years old when he got him. We installed invisable fencing, but the colar was not strong enough to keep him in. The heighbours have many stories about how he saved their dogs, animals, and pushed back huge packs of cyotes from their farms. He kept our poultry safe from air preditors, loved our kids, trapped one cyote on our place, tracked down and fought a cougar twice, and got hit by a vehicle during a snow storm only once. We will miss him. The kids want us to get another dog just like him, I would like to as well, hubby does not because we cant keep them home. We had just bought the stuborn dog collar and was going to start training him to it the day after he got off his chain and left.
My questions are:
1. if we get a GP puppy would it be more likley to stay home?
2. are all GP as good at protecting as he was?
3. Is there another breed dog that would keep our poultry safe, and would be more prone to staying home?
4. we have another dog (kelpy/border colley) the kids and Rocky taught her to chase the ravens and other air preditors. Do you think she could guard them during the day in their pasture, and be let out to the rest of the farm at night until I let the hens out at noon every day?
right now we are looking into housing 100 hens, but i want them to be free range. to have them in the open electrified pasture would be my dream. to have them in small rotatable runs that are covered, may need to be the reality.
lori
My questions are:
1. if we get a GP puppy would it be more likley to stay home?
2. are all GP as good at protecting as he was?
3. Is there another breed dog that would keep our poultry safe, and would be more prone to staying home?
4. we have another dog (kelpy/border colley) the kids and Rocky taught her to chase the ravens and other air preditors. Do you think she could guard them during the day in their pasture, and be let out to the rest of the farm at night until I let the hens out at noon every day?
right now we are looking into housing 100 hens, but i want them to be free range. to have them in the open electrified pasture would be my dream. to have them in small rotatable runs that are covered, may need to be the reality.
lori