Training Great Pyrenees Puppies to GUARD Chickens / Livestock Guardian Dogs protecting chickens
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- We spent some time training our Great Pyrenees puppies to learn to guard our chickens. We give our livestock guardian dogs supervised training sessions with our chickens to learn to protect them and not attempt to play with the hens. Our Great Pyrenees puppies also benefit from learning from our adult livestock guardian dogs.
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00:00 Intro
00:41 Livestock Guardian Training Explained
03:31 Livestock Guardian Training Demonstrated
05:03 Property Tour
07:20 Baby Chicks & Smaller Coop
08:29 Livestock Guardian Training with our adult Great Pyrenees
10:10 Example of Incorrect Behavior for Livestock Guardian Dogs
11:51 Garden Tour
15:04 Great Pyrenees Puppies Exploring the Farm
16:41 Outro
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I love my Pyrenees. I’ve been breeding for 20 years and for the very first time I actually kept a puppy. Her name is Roxy and she’s 11 weeks old. She was the runt and mom rejected her so I bottle fed her and we bonded. She still has the guardian in her. When she sees our Barbados, she instantly perks up and she will sit and watch them for hours
Hello to Roxy from all our pups at Willow Ridge Acres! 👋 Thank you for watching!
Great training for the young pups. They'll find their forever homes in no time they are so cute and fluffy.
Thanks for watching! They are great pups!
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We lost some chickens to coyotes...in the daytime...so we bought a lgd, a puppy that is maremma sheep dog and anatolian shep. mix....he is now, 5.5 mos. old and is in a fenced area with our new young buck goat that will be our sire for our nannies next year...these lgd breeds are amazing and we are learning on the way to train him for eventually being out with our nanny goats, some of our cows and our horses...all training tips appreciated!
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss of the chickens. Those coyotes can be ruthless. That maremma should definitely do the job to guard your livestock moving forward. It's been our experience that our Great Pyrenees really haven't needed any training to guard our goats and pigs and I'd assume they'd do just as well with cattle and horses. They just need some intentional training to do well around chickens. I'd assume that Maremmas are similar, having watched some other CZcams channels that have them. One of my favorite channels to watch has a Maremma, it's called Gold Shaw Farm. Check it out if you haven't already!
each time I see these cute puppies playing my heart melt
The fluffiness is so cute right?!
Awesome video as congratulations on 300 subs🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉. Jovial our coonhound mix is not allowed in the chicken coop because she would end up killing the chickens.
Thank you Paige! Yeah Gloria is doing better around the chickens but she definitely can’t be left alone with them. She just wants to play! But chickens aren’t good play mates for dogs lol
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Matthew wants chickens. How about a video of what all goes in and why we should or should not get some. Cooking sounds good too!
I thought you meant cooking the chickens at first! 😳 lol
Yes we plan to do a “chickens for beginners” type of video sometime soon! Stay tuned!
I'm getting 2 pups this week...LOT of work to do! We have chickens, ducks and turkeys right now. We (I) want to get a couple goats/sheep and a couple young cows.
They are adorable!
Thank you for watching Charlotte!
Thanks for sharing the video
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They are so adorable! ❤️
Thanks for watching!
They may be adorable, but these are working dogs and will not live indoors or be a family pet.
Thank you for all the advice and tips and just good Ole wisdom regarding these dogs. My family and I are preparing for our pup next month. We are having trouble deciding what food to feed. We currently feed our "pet" dogs raw food. But wanted to know what would be a good option for our great pyranese coming next month. Wish I would have known you guys bred them, but God willing maybe our next!
Thanks for watching! Glad you found it helpful! Have you brought your new pup home yet? We feed our Great Pyrenees Victor Hi-Pro Plus: amzn.to/3sqKujO and we mix in a raw egg from our hens from time to time
To move that building you might consider using steel pipe or good round post and just roll it to the new spot. I moved a 16 by 32 foot building that way took about half a day to move it a hundred yards.
I thought about trying that but the coop has posts on all four corners that stick down about a foot below the frame so it would be difficult to roll
Thanks for this informative video! We are about to get a Great Pyrenees to protect our chickens and goats
We currently have 3 male Great Pyrenees puppies available. Let us know if you are interested!
hey i know this late but do you have any great pyrenees left?
Recently seen a whole bunch of in shape Great Pyrenees that go over 200 pounds. Many from my area run from the 135 to 160 range ( in shape). Some a little heavier but out of shape. Some smaller but anything 125 or over is still a decent size. For our purposes though.....Bigger is better w in reason. My 8 month old puppy is over 29 and a half inches at the shoulder and we'll over 100 pounds. Will get an exact weight in the next week or so. My other Pyr protected us and our house on several occasions RIP. He alerted, ran off a potential prowler and destroyed a couple coyotes on another occasion. Our new big puppy Bear is well on his way to guarding. Grew up w a huge kennel right behind my house of German Shepherd and Rottweiler,s so alot of that training I did w them has become very useful w Bear. He's my 2 year old sons Christmas present and is super good w him. Follows him everywhere and does his best to protect him. A very fine and gentle breed
I want a Farm just to have a Great Pyrenees! lol
They are amazing! Thanks for watching!
You are really great dog trainers. I would love to get a puppy❤️
You are so kind! Please fill out our form on our website to join our waiting list: www.willowridgeacres.com/reserve-a-great-pyrenees-puppy
THis is great. One question - what do you do if your Great Pyr does start showing a little stalking/chasing behavior? What's your mechanism for discouraging bad behavior? --- and what if it is persistent?
Thank you for watching! It has been our experience that a calm but assertive verbal correction works to redirect their attention and corrects the behavior after a few times. Generally, the Great Pyrenees breed does not respond well to harsh correction.
A very well made video! If I may ask, who did you get your great pyr from? And did you get ones from showline or work line? (I assume work line but asking because I know some people who have made lgd out of showline dogs)
Hello Raftaar! Thank you for watching the channel! We got our Great Pyrenees from livestock guardian dog breeders in Texas. They were definitely from working dog lines and not show line.
In this video, both puppies showed good behavior. Do you have a video showing how you would correct the bad behavior if it were to happen?
Good job would love one of your dogs
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Hello from Kentucky! I just discovered your channel today while trying to do research on the Great Pyrenees breed. We have a 5 acer homestead, we garden, have chicken, guineas, turkeys, cows, pigs, and are in need of a true livestock breed. Love your video, I just subscribed and hit the bell. Going to do a little binge watching. I have a couple questions, I saw where it says new video's each week but the newest one I can find is from a month ago, how often do you all upload new videos?, so I will know what days to keep a eye out for them, and second question is about the breed, My husband knows a guy that has the breed, and he told my husband, that they do better in pairs, and he told my husband NOT to pet and cuddle them because then they wouldn't do their job, so now my husband thinks that if we get one, it can't be loved, hugged and petted....or I....lol...the animal lover will ruining it, that if it takes up with us, it will just be another pet and it wouldn't want to stay out with the animals and watch over them, but from what I see in your videos, that doesn't seem to hold true at all, but I am still unsure about the part that they do better in pairs, this part I could see maybe having some truth to it? what are your thoughts on this? I hope you see my comment, Thank you for your time, adorable family, farm, and animals, this channel has it all for me, new fan!
Hey Mylanda! 👋 Thank you for watching and subscribing! We haven't made a new video in about a month due to some family medical issues we have had to tend to. But we plan to upload our next video soon and get back on our weekly upload schedule of Tuesdays and Saturdays!
To answer your questions about the Great Pyrenees breed, it has been my experience that there are two "schools of thought" when it comes to the breed. There are people who prefer to raise them with little to no human interaction and there are people who do give their dogs attention and affection. My experience has been that our dogs are still great livestock guardians and still rely on their instincts to guard and protect our animals, even with us spending daily time with them. Great Pyrenees that are raised with no human interaction can become aggressive towards humans, even their owners, and since we have 5 children, we did not want to risk our dogs becoming aggressive towards our kids.
Our dogs will still bark and deter any human that approaches our property unless they are escorted onto the property by us, if we escort visitors onto the property... our dogs welcome them as if they are part of the family. That is the way we like it.
They absolutely do better in pairs, however they can survive and do fine by themselves. We have a family friend with just one Great Pyrenees and he does well protecting their livestock.
Thank you for the kind words! Stay tuned for new videos coming soon... hopefully this coming week!
@@WillowRidgeAcres Thank you very much, you have been very helpful!
I’ve done both socializing my dogs and staying completely away from them. They seem to do great either way but my dad prefers the no hands way
So cute 👍👍 beautiful
You are so kind
When is the next litter planned? You have the most beautiful puppies! I am considering Pyrenees vs Anatolian vs Maremma. I like that you introduce them to livestock.
One of our females, Millie, should be going into heat very soon. So we are hoping to have our next litter by the end of the summer! Thank you for watching!
I have some Great Pyrenees/ Anatolian mix and they are some of the best guardian dogs I breed
@@WillowRidgeAcres Absolutely. I love to watch them.
@@MsCheermom2007 I agree. I have an Anatolian/Great Pyrenees mix and he is so intelligent. And, beautiful, I might add!
How could you let these dogs go they are so sweet and beautiful..
Great video! I am considering getting a pair of pyrenees to guard my chickens, but how do they do around a rooster? I keep losing chickens to predators (fenced and everything) and want the dogs, but I have a rooster that is a little less than friendly.
Hey! Thanks for watching! We don't have experience with our dogs around roosters, but I would say that with the right training around chickens the dogs will leave them alone just as they do the hens. But if the rooster tries to boss the dogs around the dogs would likely just growl and snap at the rooster to "put it in its place." That's the behavior I would expect. And that behavior is perfect as the Great Pyrenees should be the "alpha" of the pack. Our dogs will growl and snap at our goats if the goats attempt to eat their food during feeding time. They won't attack the goats but they'll do enough to let the goats know who's in charge. Hope that makes sense and helps! Might be good for your rooster to be put in check by the dogs from time to time anyway so he doesn't think he runs your farm 😁
And be sure you research littlermate syndrome, if you don’t have any adult dogs around to be alpha with the puppies.
HELLO FROM ROMÂNIA! I LOVE GUARD DOG TRAINING PUPPY WITH HENS, DUCKS, GEESE, TURKEYS, PIGS, COWS AND HORSE IS VERY GOOD I WANT TO HAVE 5 DOGS GUARDIEG MY HENS, DUCKS, TURKEYS, GEESE, PIGS, COWS HORSE
Howdy from Texas! 👋 🤠 Thank you for watching!
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Thanks for the tip! We will have to try that next season! Hello to Germany from Texas wave 👋 and thanks for watching!
That's called "the slow chase"...they should be completely ignoring the chickens. That's the goal with LGD pups and chickens. They should have been intercepted and corrected for any overt attention towards the chickens. Gloria could be easily trained off them also, she's not all that focused on them, but she too started with the slow chase. She's just quicker of foot than the pups. One short training session with each of them, one on one with a chicken, would get you where you are going. Have trained several different breeds and LGD pups with it and it works. I have pups working reliably with the free flock at 2-3 mo. of age.
Great tips for training LGD puppies! Thanks for sharing and thank you for watching!
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What about the heat? How does the Texas heat affect them? Are they able to stay out on the farm alone? We have problems with raccoons and coyotes killing our chickens. We live 30 mins from our 40 acres. We have longhorns and chickens out there. We keep our chickens put up all the time, they have a chicken hut and outdoor run connected to the hut.
Could a Pyrenees puppy almost a year old be trained to guard and stay put on the property?
We have a video addressing how they do in the Texas heat, check it out! czcams.com/video/zJAUir-fJm4/video.html
How big is your property? Can you do a fencing video?
Our small farm is only 1.5 acres but we make the most of the property we have. And yes, we plan to do a video about our fencing setup and what we have learned works and doesn't work to contain our Great Pyrenees dogs! Thanks for watching Brent!
I might get a 10 week old male Pyrenees, is that a good age to train them? And are there any more specific things I can do with him to help train them
Thank you for watching Lilian! 10 weeks is a great age to start training them with some supervised daily exposure to chickens.
I notice you don’t have a very grassy yard. Is this because of the dogs and chickens? Asking because we plan to get a GP soon to guard our chickens and are hoping they will help eliminate some of the mowing we have to do on our land. Our chickens are only cooped in a barn for the time being because of predators. Looking forward to having them loose to “mow” the lawn.
We don’t have much grass due to the rocky terrain we live in (we have just a couple inches of soil and then almost solid rock) and our goats eat any thing that is green.
If you have better soil and no goats you should be fine.
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i have a 7 week old great pyrenees puppy. how do i transition her from inside (sleeping in my bed) to outside with the chickens and goats and rabbits. my parents dont want her inside any more but i dont want her to run away and she also has some separation anxiety.
Good question. For any of our puppies that will be working livestock guardian dogs, we don’t bring them inside. I would say it will be a difficult transition after the puppy has gotten used to sleeping in your bed to being outside all night. It would be best to start the puppy sleeping outside
@@WillowRidgeAcres she started out in a large pen at night and out during the day. Now she’s fully free roamed. She’s just the sweetest puppy and she’s sticking around.
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My 3 months old keeps attacking Or playing with our chickens. I don't know what to do. We try to catch her in the moment and tell her to stop by then she just goes back She is getting more aggressive with them.
Is she a purebred Great Pryrenees? Or is she a Pyrenees mix? If she is a mix with another breed, most other breeds' prey drive will be too high to be around poultry. Is she your only Great Pyrenees? If she hasn't had an adult Great Pyrenees around to show her the ropes, at 3 months old she's still a young pup and is likely too young to be left unattended with poultry. If that's the case, I would suggest giving her supervised times with the chickens for now until she's at least 6 months old. Hope that helps!
Help my pyre puppy does not have another dog to help train him. I can't be there watch him all the time. I need advice please. He keeps wanting to chase the chickens.
Your puppies do not have that mischievous look my puppy gets. Help?.
Hey! thank you for watching! If you are not able to provide supervised training sessions for your pup, we highly recommend easing your puppy's access to the chickens by keeping the puppy in a kennel or run that is near the chicken area but doesn't allow the pup to chase or touch the chickens. Hope that helps!
Beautiful energy between u and Ur lovely wife
Thank you for the kind words! ❤️
So frustrating trying to get an all white Pyrenees puppy in the UK, 2 years I’ve been looking and still nothing, plenty in the US tho but importing one is so expensive 😩
I'm sorry to hear that Craig. I had no idea all white Great Pyrenees puppies were so difficult to find in the UK. I've never researched the process of exporting a puppy from the US to the UK, but I'm assuming it's complicated.
I couldn't find one either here in New Mexico, usa. Eventually I found a mix or full blooded dog of a year old.
Look in texas
Okay my 14 week puppy killed my baby chicken ! I been trying to train them but once I’m not there he will attack the baby and chicken ! What can I do ?!
Maria, is the dog a purebred Great Pyrenees?
I have two questions, about where in Texas are you? How much do you get for a puppy?
Hello! We are just north of San Antonio in the hill country. We get $500 per puppy. Thank you for watching!
@@WillowRidgeAcres Thank you. You are the only seller that has replied to my request.
No problem!
@@WillowRidgeAcres - How often do you breed? Definitely not in the market for a puppy now, but considering buying a small farm and my snuggly Pyrenees is between eleven and fifteen years old. She is incapable of acting as LGD at this point due to age related infirmities but still happy so will remain a pet as long as she wants. Painful to consider putting her down, but I’m not selfish enough to hang on after i5 is item. :(
How many dew claws does a Pyrenees have?
Great Pyrenees are known for having double dew claws on their hind legs
Some of mine do but some females don’t have double dews
Are the dogs in this video still with you? Available?
Hello Timothy! I believe my wife has responded to you via email! Thank you for watching, let us know if you have any other questions!
I have a female Great Pyrenees, she turns 2 today. A few days ago I took 2 hens and she started chasing them like a hunting dog. I am followed by a good dog trainer, but I find it very difficult to trust my Great Pyrenees dog. She never listens to me :(
It can take some work, even with Great Pyrenees, to get them desensitized to the chickens
It might be worth it to just build another chicken coop. you could do something else with the old coop.
I have a 1 year old. Is it possible to train a 1 year old.
Hello Gail! Thanks for watching! We can only speak from our own experience, and we have had all of our Great Pyrenees dogs since they were puppies and had the opportunity to train them early. However, it has been our experience that the Great Pyrenees breed relies heavily on instincts to do their job as a livestock guardian. As long as you have a pure-bred Great Pyrenees, instinctively they have a low prey drive and high guardian instincts, so I would say with some intentional supervised training, a 1 year old Great Pyrenees can be trained to do well with chickens. However, if your dog is not pure-bred, you'd have to consider the instincts and tendencies of the other breed that are mixed in. Hope that helps!
I don't know if he is full bred.
How old are these puppies?
The puppies were 11 weeks old in this video. Thanks for watching!
My pyrenees wants to play with the chips she runs around the coop scaring them. My other dog licks her lips n whines.
Yeah you won't want your Great Pyrenees puppies chasing the chickens. You'll want to correct that behavior while they are young.
This video was pretty unsatisfying. Sorry. How do you correct the puppies from playing or stalking with the livestalk? What is it that you do specifically? What is their daily routine exactly? Where do you keep them? How do you feed them? How do your older dogs correct them? What specifically do you do to train them?
That's the video I was looking for. If you're gonna do a video and call it a "training video" I would have expected it to focus on your puppies and your processes. This video was well over 60% focused on your faces and you talking about your farm. Which, while plesant enough is not what brought me, and I'm sure others, to you. I don't care about that. Sorry. I noticed you're asking for subscribers so I took the time to tell you this. There's no reason to follow anyone if the content isn't living up to the title. People follow farming/homesteading channels to learn how to do things via instruction. Not to keep up with what your wife hopes you'll do in the Spring. All the best.
Thank you for your feedback, Beth.
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I have a lot of questions to ask, can I private message you all?.
I apologize for the delayed response to your comment. You can email us at info@willowridgeacres.com
I was interested in a pair this year a male and female if you have them available or soon will please contact me and as always thank you for your time and business
Hey Allen! We currently have a waiting list for our next litters. If you'd like to join the waiting list, please fill out the form on our website at: www.willowridgeacres.com/reserve-a-great-pyrenees-puppy
Hello I am just stumbling across your video I was in there looking for some great Pyrenees puppies I need a male and female I'm starting a new farm and I need to get two puppies if you have any available for next year please contact me thank you for your time and business
Hello Allen, thanks for watching our channel! All of our puppies from our recent litter have found their new forever homes. We currently have a waiting list for our next litters. If you would like to join the waiting list, please check out our website: www.willowridgeacres.com 😁