The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service together with the Texas Livestock Guardian Dog Association will current the webinar “Using Livestock Guardian Dogs With Poultry” on Sept. 14.
The webinar will happen at 3 p.m. on the Zoom assembly platform. There is not any cost to attend however individuals should preregister at https://tx.ag/Sept14LGDwebinar.
Although livestock guardian dogs, LGDs, are usually used with sheep and goats in Texas as predator deterrents, canines may be bonded to totally different species and used to guard a variety of livestock.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Center in San Angelo has a analysis program dedicated to livestock guardian dogs and makes use of LGDs on the middle’s ranches and in partnership with non-public ranch homeowners.
Joy Combs, longtime LGD consumer, to talk
Webinar speaker Joy Combs and her husband Darrell Cobb personal Providence Farm, in McLeansville, North Carolina, the place they produce free-range poultry, forest-raised pork, dual-purpose heritage breed sheep and miniature dairy goats. Hundreds of free-range birds together with chickens, turkeys and geese transfer across the farm beneath the watch of LGDs.
Combs will share her firsthand expertise, successes, observations and recommendation on utilizing LGDs with poultry. She has been working with dogs and livestock in varied capacities for over 30 years. She moderates the Learning About LGDs group on Facebook and companions with a number of rescue organizations to advertise profitable LGD possession.
“We have a rolling topography with lots of cover and waterways that provides rich habitat for diverse wildlife, including a healthy predator population of coyotes, foxes and the smaller usual suspects as well as at-large domestic dogs resulting from the recent push of human population to more rural areas,” Combs stated.
To fight predation, Providence Farm maintains a everlasting pack of 5 LGDs, which embody three Great Pyrenees, one Anatolian shepherd canine and one Karakachan. At any time, there are additionally rescue/rehab/rehome LGDs onsite working in the direction of placement as working LGD.
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