a dog almost bit her greg judy said not to pet them we do discourage people petting them
um we'll give them a good boy maybe once just reach down and say good boy but then when you
leave that paddock you got to make sure they don't follow you back to your truck
and he told me about how hard it was to feed them when they're inside with sheep i've sold sheep
to people i'll go out there and i'm like where's your feeder well we hand feeder dog i'm like what
yeah we hand feeding well they put the feed on the ground and the sheep roots are just devouring it
the dog might get two bite folds that's not hand feeding your dog that you're feeding your sheep
and you've already trained them now to be dog food eaters it's been over a five-year dream of ours
to get a guard dog it's our last full day here and i really wanted to go see their guard dogs
and find out more about those things as we're interested in getting those one day i mean look
at these puppies we saw at full circle farm oh my word guys have you seen these puppies yet mr brown
there you go look this is pure white i heard it you come see the dogs too come here pet this dog
you picking up the dog carrying them around how old are these puppies
there's the mom hey you did good mom thanks for letting me see your pups
that'll warm anybody up won't it
and look at how well the dogs were trained to the chickens you guarding the chickens
how are you able to feed her separate from the chickens okay put the dog food in this automatic
feeder for the dog you're going good someday when you want it this is where you stay river
a house attached to the eggmobile you said she doesn't sleep in there where does she sleep she
doesn't i mean she can but she doesn't she usually just lays down under here okay or under that thing
all right but they do need training i wondered a couple of things one
how do you get the dog to stay out here with them she says they bond them and the way they did that
is when they initially trained them at one years old they tied her up day and night for about
five days with these guys and then after that they tied her up she can't remember at least a month
at night to train her to stay with the chickens and then they eventually bond and she stays
with them naturally so come on wouldn't it be cool to get a guard for you something like you
of course you're gonna have to stay in the guard the dog can't guard you outside the fence
but then again rebecca almost got bit
why is it we haven't gotten a guard dog yet um i don't know well we chilled out on
a farm dog and just ended up settling for a goose at that time we only had chickens
then we went to this farm recently that's that was selling all its livestock and we went a
little crazy i bought two steers about 10 market pigs speaking of which we're making sure the our
water line is working to them we've been having to haul water to the pigs way over there there's
our house way over there so that's not been too fun i think if we can hook it up to this one
we can run regular hoses we don't have water line in yet we can regular hoses all the way
up to there we should have enough hoses then they told us about the guard dogs
they had for sale and were like and as you may know they're selling the farm because they have to
uh the investors are pulling out and you could you could tell they really didn't want to sell those
ducks they really like those dogs you were saying the dogs are the hardest for you to give up why
is that because they become part of your family um you you get them when they're babies and you watch
them grow up and you see your family interact with them you got us on and on yep okay let's see if
it's working let's see if water's coming it's a out way to go uphill there's no water yet we went
to see those guard dogs and they were surprisingly friendly to us they seem happy to see the children
but they're not touching the fence no they're not touching the pits
and they don't need a dog house no dog house but these are the younger a little bit younger
they were they turned one march first they're trained to sheep and dog and
chickens are cheap these are chickens all right these are the these are the chickens
the last couple days we've been trying the cheap cheap ones don't seem to be
going after the chickens huh no so i asked him you can handle them like this
and you leave and they're not going to follow you does that mean you go in there and pet them
i pet them yeah you let them out i let them out yeah
they don't try to get out and come after you he assured me that they would stay put wow look at
the work the pigs have already done in here just one day you guys are happy little pigs
there's still one problem and that's the feeding problem but he said he had a greg judy
guard dog fear um this is their dog feeder and this is a drug from paddock to patty okay and all
we did was took pig panels these are permanent pig panels you cut them up uh this is a three
foot piece that's a three foot piece and these are fours and the dog he doesn't jump over this
he comes in here and he slides under you and then this is a this is a magnet
so as they eat it's gravity flow you fill it up up here and it just keeps going down
and this guys keeps the the sheep out of the dog food yeah sheep won't go in there
the biggest cost of your sheep is the dog feed for the guardian dogs that's the biggest cost of
your shoes the cost of the dog feed okay you're gonna let me pet you you're gonna let me pet you
oh that one's probably only because it's drinking water there he goes
nice is this one so nice no it didn't take long to tame them though
our five-year-old dream was smoldering in the ashes almost forgotten
and it just got revived we just put some oxygen on it and we've got a little puff
and we should be getting this dog next week or the week after at the latest there's water
why are they so thirsty there's water up there they're drinking they were
just finding more convenient down there i guess yeah they're drinking it's coming out filling up
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