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We had her sleeping in the barn with the chickens, but is that not a good idea? At night should she stay in the separate pen that she stays in when we are gone?

That’s what we were doing, letting her be with them while supervised, and not with them while unsupervised, but then we thought everyone was telling us to put the dog and chickens together, and not to have them separate. Starting tomorrow, we will start with all @Beekissed info & advice, and see...

We spend 2 days straight keeping her with all the chickens, and we would recorrect her every time she started _______ (doing whatever she wasn’t supposed to. But as soon as she knows we aren’t watching, or we go inside, she gets a duck of fluffy chicken, or eats more eggs, or chases them, etc...

Got it, thank you all so much! In all of our previous reading and such, alllll we were told is never let the dog be with the animal until you know for sure that they won’t hurt them, keep them separate till the puppy matures is all we heard, but then we would put her locked in the barn with them...

She is a Great Pyrenees, Anatolian Shepherd cross.

We got a wonderful LGD puppy, she is about 4 months old now, and we have her in a huge chainlink pen(that used to be our garden) with the chickens surrounding her pen in their chainlink pen...so she is in a pen, and the chickens are in a surrounding pen. She does great, and we let her out with...

They were just looking for suggestions:-) Thank you!

Thank you everybody for the ideas! My daughter really didn’t want another dog to raise either, but she just decided if she was going to have animals of any kind, she was going to need protection for them, so she got an LGD puppy, and Sheera the pup was the best decision she made for her...

That is horrible, I’m so so sorry! Thank you for the advice..

Thank you! They have really thought about all of that, and they understand the cycle of life. You gave all helpful information, so thank you for taking the time to type all of that. They now have a wonderful LGD with the chickens, so that’s not a worry for the chickens anymore (yes the dog is...

Those are both really good ideas! Thank you so much!!!

My kids (13 & 14) are looking to buy and raise a couple cows for meet, and to show in 4-H. We don’t have the land for it, but our neighbor does, and welcomed them to it. Its a pipe fence, with hay rings, a shelter, different pastures, a bid barn, etc. But the kids only problem is that they are...

Hmmm, ok. Thanks. We don't have enough time to train a LGD puppy for 2 years, and continue loosing chickens to it and the predator during that time.

We are having predator problems...hawks and foxes are getting our chickens. Barn and fencing isn't the problem. We are wandering what animal(s) we should get to protect them? LGD isn't an option. Thanks!

Donkey and partner in crime, the "Mule", update: They are both doing well, they are slowly getting sweeter, calmer, more gentle, and obedient. They are a work in progress, but well worth it.

Here donkey is now, with his little friend, Mule.

Update on Donkey and Mule: They are both doing well, and getting sweeter, calmer, and more gentle & obedient everyday.

Donkey and Mule update: They are both doing great, and are getting sweeter, calmer, and more gentle everyday.

Thanks you!

How our property is set, we really just can't put a perimeter fence, it's just not an option... Do you think if we raise it from a puppy in the barn with the chickens(in its own pen of course), that it would learn that we are its property?