I don't have any experience with guard dogs for sheep, but I do know that
once a dog starts killing other animals, it could be difficult to keep it
from doing it again. So, just beware in case you can't stop the dog from
killing again.
A note of information for those people out there with llamas with their
sheep. We are being given a couple of more llamas from an elderly man that
cannot take care of them anymore, a female with a 4-month-old male. We were
thinking of keeping the little guy intact to breed with the females that we
already have. My sister-in-law did some reading up on intact male llamas and
found out that an intact grown male llama will try to breed with ewes and it
will kill the ewes. She read where 1 ranch had 100 ewes die before they
figured out what was happening. That's pretty sad. We will be having the
little guy gelded when he is old enough.
Julie Riha
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