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Livestock Guardian Dogs |
We have three Great Pyranese/ Maremma cross LGD's. They are all about 1 year old now. These are awesome dogs but they do bark.....a lot! Since we put Chinook in our main chicken yard, we have not lost any chickens, as oppsed to loosing 150 last winter to predators. I chose Chinook for the poultry guard as she seemed to be the calmest at least likely to chase poultry of the three pups. She is now about 125 pounds and just under one year old. I can not say enough good things about Chinook! She has matured into a calm, protective LGD! Kodiak is the male, unrelated to the girls. He is also Pyrenese and Maremma, but also looks to be Akbash. Kodi is built quite differently than the girls. He is much larger boned, with a bigger head and huge jaws. He is very tall and thinner than the girls. Kodi probably weighs about 100 pounds at one year old. He is a real character! Kodi loves to visit all of the yards. He just climbs right out of any pen we put him into and goes where he wants, thank goodness he seems very content staying on our ranch as he seems to think it is his job to oversee everything that goes on here. Sometimes he visits the horses, sometimes the milkers and sometimes he visits the other dogs. Kodi is gentle with every animal here on the ranch! Shasta is down the road protecting the goats at all times. Shasta is about 110 pounds and just gorgeous! She looks much more like a "wolf" than the other two. We do plan on breeding Kodi tp one of the girls in about 6 months. We will be offering puppies for sale at that time for $300 each. Surprise, we are expecting puppies earlier that planned. If you are looking for a great livestock guardian pup, these are a great combination of only livestock guardian breeds, nothing weird mixed in. |
We are expecting a litter of puppies in mid-March from Shasta and Kodi. If you reserve one before March 30th, the price is $200, after March 30th the will be $250-$300 each. They will come with their first shots and dewormed |
Max- 4 pound Papillon is our kid sitter. He does a fantastic job watching our little guys, it's true! Every kidding season he is aware that this is his job and he likes to get paid in fresh goat milk when the little ones get fed. |