Rural Gardening: predators are destroying my flock!, 1 by kenboy

kenboy wrote:
Hay, in Texas we do the 2-step waltz. Eufaula, the Pyrenees just seem to know what to do. Then again I have never had less than two, once I got my first one. They work better in pairs or groups. Coyotes are smart and will send in a dcoy and when then dogs chase it, another on comes in from the back side. Pyrenees know this and always have one or two to hold back and run around the place to guard their territory. Most of the time I keep the big guy and three females. He was just a little over a year in the picture and is now about 190lb. One thing Is, as pups almost all of the ones I keep have killed and eaten a chicken. All I do is chain them to a tree and place the chicken just out of reach and go by several times a day and shake the chicken in their face and say bad dog. This has always stopped the killing and only once have I had to do it a second time. They love to please master and just scolding them can make them shy from you for days. I have leash trained a few but just do not see the need where I am, they run free here in the country and the neighbors like the fact that they run the coyotes from their cattle pastures.

Here is Sis's first litter this Summer with Ginger, a new pup we got;