Ridgetop
Herd Master
Rats are nasty. Have only seen a couple and with the return of our once dead 
lol cat seem not to have that many. Since we dont have chickens or rabbits yet, snakes are not a problem other than venomous ones. Here in north east Texas the main sheep predators are coyotes and black head buzzards. We use Anatolian LGDs to protect the sheep and lambs and they have gone after a couple black head buzzards that have landed and looked like they were plotting on the lambs. We also fenced with 6' fencing - mainly to protect the dogs from going over the fences after predators and getting hit by cars. Leaving the property is mainly a Pyr trait and our Anatolians stick with the sheep.
We had a lot more problems with coyotes in southern California. Here in Texas you can shoot the coyotes, in southern California the animal lovers objected to it. another big problem in the lie of redators that is not uch touched upon are loose dogs. In Texas you can shoot one that goes after your livestock. In California we had a lot more loose dogs come after our livestock. We did shoot at them, but aftergetting our LGDs we no longer had much of a problem.
Good fencing and multiple LGDs are our solution for predators no matter where we live.
lol cat seem not to have that many. Since we dont have chickens or rabbits yet, snakes are not a problem other than venomous ones. Here in north east Texas the main sheep predators are coyotes and black head buzzards. We use Anatolian LGDs to protect the sheep and lambs and they have gone after a couple black head buzzards that have landed and looked like they were plotting on the lambs. We also fenced with 6' fencing - mainly to protect the dogs from going over the fences after predators and getting hit by cars. Leaving the property is mainly a Pyr trait and our Anatolians stick with the sheep.We had a lot more problems with coyotes in southern California. Here in Texas you can shoot the coyotes, in southern California the animal lovers objected to it. another big problem in the lie of redators that is not uch touched upon are loose dogs. In Texas you can shoot one that goes after your livestock. In California we had a lot more loose dogs come after our livestock. We did shoot at them, but aftergetting our LGDs we no longer had much of a problem.
Good fencing and multiple LGDs are our solution for predators no matter where we live.
