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While I certainly wouldn't mind having a llama or two, I think I'll already be pushing it with grazing on my acre since I want to have a pony or two ^^; I hope to expand to more acres eventually, though.

I've seen a lot of people talking about how their LGDs are better mice hunters than their cats are, ha ha.

I really love the look of boers and especially the spotted ones! I think I will have to have one as a pet to go with my dairy goats :P

@BTRT I always just checked the kits for full tummies. I usually didn't have any trouble until the kits were getting older, then sometimes the smaller kits start to lose out. I would usually pull a few kits as soon as they have their eyes open if this happens and introduce them to goat's milk...

@babsbag I sure hope mine does not fall into the last category @_@ But it's impossible to tell ahead of time. I was going crazy reading from one source that "Pyrs aren't quite as noisy as some other LGD breeds" and then "Maremmas will bark to alert you of something important, but are not...

Well, I have a new pup. I found a breeder the next province over with working stock maremma pups. He has been breeding the for 20+ years. They are older pups, not babies, they were born in the sheep pen and also already well used to cats being around which is a big plus for me. I explained...

I think the issue with the scissors is that they drive bacteria present on the cord deeper into the flesh, so sterilizing them won't really help. It was recommended to tear the cord instead of cutting. My personal feeling on iodine is that millions of wild ruminants are born every day without...

I was just reading the section on this Raising Goats Naturally book. Deborah mentions how there was a study I believe, showing that pasture-born sheep were less likely to get navel ill than those who had the cord cut and dipped in iodine. At least I think it was sheep? The thinking being that...

Ah I can't wait to get more rabbits again. I really enjoyed the hobby so much.

@Southern by choice I fully fully agree with you. I think the whole idea of having your dog not bond with you because then it won't be able to do its job is bizarre. It's like when I was breeding ferrets and people told me I would never be able to successfully breed them if I handled the...

Is that going to be the case for baby pups who have not actually learned their job yet though? I believe there's a critical bonding period when they are little, at least that's what I've read...

Put more thought into this. The only dogs that I can think of that I'd want to have other than the traditional LGD breeds are short-haired and that is just not going to work in the climate I'm moving to. I am going to go with a LGD breed and if it needs more exercise than what it would...

@goatgurl unfortunately there is not a lot of variety here so unless I look at importing or shipping, my choices are few. There is a litter of tibetan mastiff x maremma semi-close to here, amazingly, but my brother is gone and won't be back for three weeks or so still, so I can't get to them to...

@Samantha drawz I hear you on the wolf issue. Any animal who loses their natural habitat and are being squeezed from all sides are going to change their behavior and/or die off... I wish we could just learn to leave some wild land for the animals that were, after all, here first. Luckily I...

@Southern by choice There are no wolves in NB, these are coywolves (which IMO would be more dangerous in some ways to a human... on average, not as large, though). And tbh I would not be worried about wolves. If I had a large area of land where a wolf could come and take a goat without getting...

@goatgurl ha ha ha yeah I am considering my best choices in dogs right now. I don't want a traditional LGD breed because I just won't have enough land for one and I don't want a dog that will continually be wanting to bust out and go exploring ten miles away. I am trying to decide on a breed...

Oh how sweet! I wish I could have a cow but I don't have enough land. Maybe some day...

Oh gosh they are just so adorable!!!! My jealousy is mounting by the minute!

@Southern by choice I think AFTER I've seen it done by the vet a number of times I may opt to try it myself as well (if I decide to disbud). But I'd never want to do it without sedation of some kind... I wonder if icing ahead of time would numb the area well enough... as well as icing afterward.

Adorable bunnies and doggies! I used to raise show rabbits also and would like to get into it again, except, where I live I don't believe there is much of a pet market for rabbits. Having to cull rabbits for no better reason than that no one else wants them takes all the fun out of the hobby...