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gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
6. I don't have livestock
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 10:35 AM
Sep 2014

Last edited Fri Sep 26, 2014, 11:06 AM - Edit history (1)

but most shepherds are in the US on work visas, so that can't legally posses firearms (1968 Gun Control Act) not that they have traditionally anyway even back in the "old west". If I did, I would have to research how ranchers in Eastern Europe and Canada deal with it. I read that ranchers in Transylvania uses portable pens and alarms (along with really big dogs). Of course, that would be sheep. With cattle, I would think twice about dehorning.
My theory on livestock is the same as home, schools, country. If you have to get the gun out, your primary defenses failed.
I don't have any livestock and I grow my veggies in a greenhouse. Nothing beats picking fresh lettuce and tomatoes in January.
I know a guy in Florida who keeps coyotes and foxes away from his chickens by periodically sprinkling panther urine around the property and has a mule.

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