guy that has a big herd of goats leaves them run free. coyotes don't bother them - he has a llama that runs with the goats and claims that as long as the llamas is out there the coyotes will stay away. anybody else ever hear of this

I see it around here llama guarding small bands of sheep.Around Yellowstone park doesn't work at all as wolves eat llamas.

Around here lots of people put a donkey out to protect the sheep from yotes. Guess it works.
Larry

I've hunted many sheep ranches, in NE New Mexico, that have Llamas for protection from coyotes. Ranchers claim they are great watchdogs.

Llama use is big here in Canada as well... FS

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Originally posted by Fasteel:
Llama use is big here in Canada as well... FS

Around here, Grizz prefer Llama meat above all others.

Grizz

Llamas are used in Indiana, too.

......same here in Australia,for foxes and wild dogs, except they use Alpaca's instead of Llama's. The Alpaca's hate dogs and will kick one to death if it gets too close.

Roger

So a Llama is a wild Guanaco and a Alpaca is a wild vincuna.

I did not know this until today. I always thought Alpacas were just small stupid versions of Llamas, which are just small stupid geographically retarded camels.

Stupid internet making me learn things I didn't care about.

B W W : Just the opposite; vicuñas and guanacos are wild animals , llamas and alpacas are domestic.
Llamas has been used here - as donkeys has - to keep away foxes and pumas from goats and sheep. At least some people believe that.

Use a new born puppy, a nanny goat will odopt him then let him grow up with a herd of sheep, and he will be the best watch dog in the world, and kill a coyote in a heart beat, even a bob cat, and Lions will skedaddle when he chases them..The only problem is they are so protective that they have injured, even on one occasion killed a passing illegal, or so I heard. I know they gave our goats a wide birth on our ranch growing up soon as the word got out so the Illegals kept clear of the sheep and goats and came to the house where we always fed them and put them up in the bunkhouse over night..Our goat crop increased considerably! We never had the problem with the illegals back then, all our ranch hands were illegals, man has that changed today..