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[RiDaGeckoGuy]

I’m RiDaGeckoGuy a member of BYC and today I found this, and now I’m on here looking for cheap but good LGDs because I may be getting a goat and I need one for my guineas and chickens. This is JellyBean and her daughter olive

 

[Mini Horses]

Welcome. Your looking for an LGD for guineas, 2 hens a maybe 1 goat? That's amazing. What is your predator load? Of course need depends on where you are but wants, that's different.

 

[rachels.haven]

Hi, just a heads up, goats make terrible specimen plantings. It's 2-3 goats minimum or you get miserable escape artist goats and miserable herdmasters. Having a herd keeps them content and sort of ties them to where you want them to stay...so you should plan on two.

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

Hi, just a heads up, goats make terrible specimen plantings. It's 2-3 goats minimum or you get miserable escape artist goats and miserable herdmasters. Having a herd keeps them content and sort of ties them to where you want them to stay...so you should plan on two.

All right

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

Welcome. Your looking for an LGD for guineas, 2 hens a maybe 1 goat? That's amazing. What is your predator load? Of course need depends on where you are but wants, that's different.

He he ummmmmmm well you see chicken math got a hold of me and when I say her daughter I mean biological, I have 25 chickens I’m only keeping 2 roosters by the time I move and want some goats, so I’ll have 2 roosters and 13 or more chicken hens with 5 guineas. I was looking at Turkish boz and bigger dogs right now. I might be moving to Houston Texas in a few months but as of now my big 150 lb German shepherd Rusty, my little cat Sylvester, and my gun keep things away but when we move and have more property with quails and pheasants and peacocks I’ll need one or two LGDs, preferably one good with families and kids.

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

I’ve lost 4 chickens and a Guinea since this photo but here’s a good photo

 

[Baymule]

Howdy neighbor! I’m in Trinity county between Crockett and Lufkin. Where are you now and where are you planning on moving to?
Most LGDs do not bond to poultry. It works out that the dogs guard their property and the birds happen to be on their property. I had a female Great Pyrenees that was a free throw away because she killed chickens. It took me 2 YEARS to turn her around and she finally became the best chicken guard ever. I also had a male Great Pyrenees that had poultry on his menu and I never could break him of it.
Plus he jumped fences to go roaming.

So it’s a crap shoot. LGDs may tolerate poultry or they may not. They are a totally different type of dog and most people try training them like they would any other “normal” dog. That generally doesn’t work.

I see you use chicken wire. Raccoons can reach through chicken wire to grab a chicken and pull is close to kill it. Plus any animal with teeth can rip it to pieces. Use hardware cloth. Much stronger and smaller holes.

Depending on how many acres you get and where you buy it, you may not need a LGD at all, but rather a good farm dog or two. LGDs bark all night to warn predators away. If you have close neighbors, it sure will make them mad when they can’t sleep because your dogs are barking all night. And it is wrong for you to make them ship up or punish them for barking, it’s been instilled in them for thousands of years.

I’m not trying to sound negative, but rather giving you some facts. So please be thoughtful about getting an LGD of any breed. A Turkish Boz is a very intense breed and I do not recommend one for a first time owner. That could turn into a train wreck. I started with Great Pyrenees after much research and study. An even better starter dog would be a Maremma. They area gentler breed and not as likely to roam like Great Pyrenees do.

I now have 3 Anatolians and will soon be looking towards getting another one. One of them is a “cheap but good” dog that at 9 months old was pronounced the worst at that young age the vet had ever seen, with hip dysplasia. One thousand dollars later, surgery, followed by 3 months of intensive therapy on my part, he could walk again. I could have bought the finest registered puppy for what that cheap Facebook puppy wound up costing.

There is a LGD forum here. My suggestion is to read it. Study before buying a LGD so you can make a better decision on what breed or if a couple of big barky farm dogs would be a better choice.

 

[Mahoney]

Welcome from Alabama!!

 

[Mini Horses]

Aha! Lots more than Jellybean & Olive

 

[Weldman]

Welcome to here from there!