Anyone Interested? UPDATE - LGD 1st Kidding

[Ferguson K]

Yes yes yes!!!

I'd love to see.

 

[babsbag]

I think it would be a terrific resource. While my dogs are older and trustworthy I may be getting a puppy just in time for kids and the success with my current dogs may be a lot of luck. They do go crazy for the afterbirth...I wish I had thought to stop that as pups.

 

[samssimonsays]

I would love to see this.

 

[Scooby308]

I do not do any LGD forums. groups, FBgroup, or any other LGD site.
Loathe them.
Too many people that give novice advice and promote all kinds of counter-productive methods.

You'd be surprised at how many of these people have dogs that have chewed, killed, & chased livestock (to the point of danger)... using shock, drags, bars, and various contraptions on their dogs.

Theses same people BREED their dogs. They don't TRAIN their dogs, they do not know how to read their dogs, they do not build trust with their dogs.

90% of dogs that fail do so because of their owner- that is suppose to be a shepherd- that is suppose to be a partner.

Then you have a few that may give some decent advice but they are so cruel to others that have made mistakes it is sickening.

Repulsive.

Ok.... RANT OVER...

@GLENMAR - do you know of any Kuvasz breeders?

See this a lot with Dobermans. Sadly, people read it on the net and believe it.

 

[Southern by choice]

I had thought of trying to video... problem is having someone to do it.

Normally we are there for kidding, we pull the kids so we are busy. It seems when I have someone trying to take pics or video they get distracted and instead of focusing on what needs to be the subject we get a lot of close ups of the new kid's face or something else that was "but it was so cute"... so the important thing gets missed.
We also generally have 4-5 people all talking at once. That is noo help.

May try to video with the upcoming group of does due.
I cannot have 5 dogs in at once... I think I will try to focus on a particular team. 4 does due within 3 days of each other so it should give all the 1 year olds opportunity. Of course Chunk (20 months) will be there... he is awesome.

It should be a good example of the more stubborn hard-headed dogs the Toli-Pyr pups are and how to work with them. Chunk and the pyrs all I ever had to say was Back up, or leave that alone... but most dogs are not quite as responsive.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

I would really love to see information on this, because as we grow in the coming years, I would love to get goats and have a LGD with them, so this would interest me. I want to learn as much as possible before we come to the point of raising our own.

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

I would LOVE to see this Southern, if you are up to compiling the info!

 

[GLENMAR]

Southern. - Kuvasz no. There's not many of those around. I'd refer to the AKC web site for breeders.

 

[HoneyDreameMomma]

I know I'm a little late jumping in, but I vote yes. We tried to be careful, but sometimes I think we were pure dumb lucky that Clyde was so naturally good with the baby goats (he's an absolute gem at kidding time). I know we can't take much credit for Miller - he came to us trained and absolutely amazing.

We want to be sure our newest LGD, Avery, does well with the babies too, so any techniques, signs of possible problems, etc that you could share would be fantastic. Avery is almost 9 months old and is strongly bonded to the goats already. They follow her everywhere, and although they always respond when either of the boys 'sound the alarm,' Avery is almost always the first one they run to. That said, I know that doesn't guarantee how she'll be with the babies. She is still a puppy and I worry she might get excited and not be as gentle as she should be. Lol - although I'm fairly certain if she tries anything with Clyde around, he'll put her in her place even faster than we can. He's very protective of 'his' babies.

But I babble... in a nutshell, yes - I'd love it if you shared that info!

 

[Southern by choice]

Have started compiling info but I thought it may be helpful to have an understanding of knowing whether your LGD is even ready to be present at a kidding.

*If a dog does not meet certain criteria then NO attempt should be made to have the dog present.

When finished I will post the link to articles.