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keeping coyotes away could be a job for a guard dog, the fencing would keep them in, but the guard dog would keep predators out. Great Pyrenees are one breed that are good at it, living with the herds all the time. I had plans to start doing some of these things this year just so I could learn for the future and for fun… well the future is here right now and I don’t know if I’m prepared but I’ll fucking try.
The farm has a dog. But she’s older, and likes to sleep indoors. One of their friends’ farms has a guard dog who sleeps out in the pasture. The chickens and turkeys are in separately-fenced areas, and then the whole area is fenced in by one more row of fencing, and that’s where the dog sleeps. So the dog is protected from coyotes by one layer of fence. (A large enough pack of coyotes could kill a dog.)
But my sister and her husband are both really mushy about dogs, and they know that the first time the animal showed an interest in sleeping indoors, they’d be too taken in to make it keep staying outdoors.
So they’re actually considering getting either a burro or a llama. Maybe two burros. Because they would be able to mostly be fed grass, which is basically free, and are also good coyote deterrents. And unlike pigs, they wouldn’t damage the pasture, if moved along with the chickens. (The pigs are also basically coyote-proof, once full-sized, and may even work well as coyote deterrents, but they’re not good guard animals, and if they’re pastured somewhere, the land needs to rest afterward because they strip it down to mud in a very short time. Fine if you’re going to plant it afterward, but not so fine if you want to pasture more animals there shortly thereafter…) Even if those wind up being pet animals, they would still do their jobs, because nobody’s going to take a burro into the house.
I would love a saddle pony, because I love horses, but I don’t know if they’re good guard animals.
And who knows, there may be plenty of time. It all depends on when the new version of the Reichstag fire happens, or if there’s another 9/11 or something. There’ll be something, surely, but it may take a while before it happens.
keeping coyotes away could be a job for a guard dog, the fencing would keep them in, but the guard dog would keep predators out. Great Pyrenees are one breed that are good at it, living with the herds all the time. I had plans to start doing some of these things this year just so I could learn for the future and for fun… well the future is here right now and I don’t know if I’m prepared but I’ll fucking try.
The farm has a dog. But she’s older, and likes to sleep indoors. One of their friends’ farms has a guard dog who sleeps out in the pasture. The chickens and turkeys are in separately-fenced areas, and then the whole area is fenced in by one more row of fencing, and that’s where the dog sleeps. So the dog is protected from coyotes by one layer of fence. (A large enough pack of coyotes could kill a dog.)
But my sister and her husband are both really mushy about dogs, and they know that the first time the animal showed an interest in sleeping indoors, they’d be too taken in to make it keep staying outdoors.
So they’re actually considering getting either a burro or a llama. Maybe two burros. Because they would be able to mostly be fed grass, which is basically free, and are also good coyote deterrents. And unlike pigs, they wouldn’t damage the pasture, if moved along with the chickens. (The pigs are also basically coyote-proof, once full-sized, and may even work well as coyote deterrents, but they’re not good guard animals, and if they’re pastured somewhere, the land needs to rest afterward because they strip it down to mud in a very short time. Fine if you’re going to plant it afterward, but not so fine if you want to pasture more animals there shortly thereafter…) Even if those wind up being pet animals, they would still do their jobs, because nobody’s going to take a burro into the house.
I would love a saddle pony, because I love horses, but I don’t know if they’re good guard animals.
And who knows, there may be plenty of time. It all depends on when the new version of the Reichstag fire happens, or if there’s another 9/11 or something. There’ll be something, surely, but it may take a while before it happens.
