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We have lost chickens to opposums, dogs, etc.
That was until we got "Carter", our great Pyrenees. He sleeps with them in the chicken coop. At night when I am putting him to bed he makes a boundary run and barks at things that lurk out there and then goes into the coop and sleeps in his "clean corner" on the opposite side from where they roost.
We occasionally hear him bark, but nothing has gotten in to get a chicken since he moved in.
He does love to play. One morning I saw him outside with a large rooster.
He would plop down one of his great white paws and the roooster would dash the other way. Plop went the other paw and the rooster reversed his course.
As the game went back and forth it looked like Carter was using the rooster as a basketball. When the rooster flew up in the air, I started looking for the hoop to see if he scored!
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That was until we got "Carter", our great Pyrenees. He sleeps with them in the chicken coop. At night when I am putting him to bed he makes a boundary run and barks at things that lurk out there and then goes into the coop and sleeps in his "clean corner" on the opposite side from where they roost.
We occasionally hear him bark, but nothing has gotten in to get a chicken since he moved in.
He does love to play. One morning I saw him outside with a large rooster.
He would plop down one of his great white paws and the roooster would dash the other way. Plop went the other paw and the rooster reversed his course.
As the game went back and forth it looked like Carter was using the rooster as a basketball. When the rooster flew up in the air, I started looking for the hoop to see if he scored!
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