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Are coyotes stealing your sheep? Maybe you need a guard donkey.

Get tips on training livestock guardian dogs, from housing, bonding with stock or poultry, and socialization with children and family dogs.

When a livestock guardian dog is not right for your farm, what other choices do you have? Jan Dohner takes an honest look at another option: the guardian llama.

Why are coyotes afraid of donkeys? Although used less commonly than dogs or llamas, a guard donkey can be an excellent guardian against coyotes or other predators.

The hardy, multipurpose Dominique chickens that came to the New World with the Pilgrims and later traveled in pioneer saddlebags to help settle the West were once too numerous to count; by 1990 a mere 500 hens survived. This is but a single example of the diminishing diversity of farm animals: half of once-common livestock breeds are endangered, others are already extinct. The need to preserve farm animal diversity is increasingly urgent, says the author of this definitive book on endangered breeds of livestock and poultry. Farmyard animals may hold critical keys for our survival, Jan Dohner ...