How to Train a Great Pyrenees to Guard Chickens is one of the 5 tips for training a Pyrenees.

Great Pyrenees dogs are used to guard and protect our chickens.Here are 5 tips for training Great Pyrenees to guard chickens on your farm.

This is both of them.The dogs are Great Pyrenees.They protect our chickens.We have never lost a chicken to a predator since we had them.They make it easier to raise chickens on our farm.

Before you get your own Great Pyrenees to guard your chickens, there are some considerations that you should keep in mind.

Our Great Pyrenees are some of the sweetest dogs I have ever owned.I have never felt like they would bite a stranger.

They bark a lot.This is one of the defense mechanisms they use to keep predators away.

If you have close neighbors or don't want to hear a barking dog, you might not want a Great Pyrenees.

Since we raise our chickens on pasture, our dogs are usually not close enough to bother us.

They might wake you up at night with their bark.

They are large dogs.They are so large that they can knock you around.

The toddler doesn't like being around them because they are almost the same height.They lick her and unintentionally bumped her around.

They tend to wander around the farm if they are not fenced in.

We kept ours fenced in.When we let ours out, they would sometimes wonder off and we wouldn't see them for hours.They were gone for an entire day.

If you want to get your own Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dogs, here are 5 tips on training them to guard chickens.

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If you want to get Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dogs to protect your chickens, make sure you get them as puppies.

A puppy is easier to train than a full grown Great Pyrenees.They might see chickens as food if you put them with them.

Raising them as puppies with chickens allows them to learn not to attack them.

Puppies are less likely to hurt a chicken than a full grown Great Pyrenees.

If you want to get Great Pyrenees to guard your chickens, you should get two instead of one.

If they are bored, they will play with the chickens.They may hurt the chickens if they play with them.

When you first get them, you will need to observe them while they interact with the chickens.I had to discipline the chickens when I caught them playing with mine.

A stern "No" is all you need to get them to stop.

Our dogs and chickens have a lot of room on our farm because we make big paddocks with pastured poultry netting.

They thrive in areas with room to run.If you're thinking about putting your Great Pyrenees in a chicken run or small area, I wouldn't recommend it.

While your dogs are young, you may have to stand guard and scare the chickens away.

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