Wehner Homestead LGD

[Wehner Homestead]

The hunt is on for a teammate for Queenie!!! I’m very excited about getting another LGD for her to work with. I didn’t like the idea of her working solo and love the idea of her having backup. This has become an even bigger issue with Lana gone. We’ve found the coyotes making their way closer and that’s not an option.

We will be getting a Pup and I know that it takes time for them to be ready to work but I feel like a Pup fits our situation better for introducing to the human kids and socializing with our family and livestock. Our adult dogs wouldn’t take kindly to introducing an adult LGD and I can only imagine the stress that would be involved! In the meantime, goats are penned at night. Cows called up close to the barn to bed down. We are on high alert with a gun at the ready to back up our girl if need be. (She’s locked in the big barn with the goats so that she doesn’t get overwhelmed by a pack since she’s only 9 mos old and we couldn’t handle it if something happened to her!)

Anyway, gotta share a pic of our girl! Proof also that there was snow on the ground this morning that is gone now.

 

[Southern by choice]

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I’m trying to talk DH into one from @babsbag! He’s not sure about having one shipped. I’m trying to push for knowing that they are true guardians from someone that knows about guardians, not just throwing two yard Pyrs together type thing.

 

[Baymule]

By all means, I am onboard for you getting a pup from babsbag too! She shipped Rita to @Southern by choice and the whole process went well. Keep talking your husband into that pup......

 

[Bruce]

And Indiana is closer to Babs than North Carolina is
I agree, unless you know of a good breeder of working LGDs within driving distance, get one "mail order" from someone who fits the description.

 

[babsbag]

We had a coyote barking outside the fence last night. I swear my dogs were going to go over that fence, hot wire or not. They were MAD. Alondra of course stayed with her pups but she was throwing a fit too. I was at the house and it took me a while to figure out what the weird barking was...thought I had a 5th dog there for a minute. When I finally caught on and went outside it took off or at least shut up, I never did see it. I love my big dogs.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

The neighbor across the road is putting in new fences and had the work hired out. Queenie does not like these men anywhere near her farm, let alone the noise that they are making and the way that it startles HER calves. Since I didn’t want Queenie to push the limits on the high tensile fence or go through the barn to get down the driveway so when they took a break to move around equipment, she followed me (of her own free will) to the barn and I put her in a pen.

I did get a few pics of her on alert. It was very neat and obvious that the guys didn’t know what to think of her.

Lots of changes are being planned and thought out to make the farm the most workable for Queenie and her soon-to-be partner. Their safety is first and foremost, but it’s also necessary for them to be able to do their jobs!

I think over time, we will need to add three to four more LGDs as we develop our goat operation (and don’t lock them in at night.)

 

[Latestarter]

I think perhaps you just gave away your "secret"... I had suspected as much.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I think perhaps you just gave away your "secret"... I had suspected as much.

I’m still working on the hubby on that one! Nice try but I promise you haven’t figured this one out yet!!!

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I should clarify...we are getting Queenie a partner, the origin of said partner is still undecided and not the secret I hinted at.

Either way, I got a funny pic of Queenie tonight. The older two kids stole a piece of cardboard from the barn to play with. They promptly abandoned it in the yard. That made it fair game! Lol