
This Mama decided she was having back-to-back litters. Stranger Things...have happened.


All of the puppies' individual pictures can be found below

Do you see your future guardian in the puppy pile?
-Birth day weight 1lb 3.5 oz
-Brindle (fawn dominant) /medium length coat
-Great Alerter, first out of the barn to bark

-Birth day weight 14.1 oz
-Fawn with white socks/medium length coat
-Quiet

-Birth day weight 1lb 0.1 oz
-Brindle (fawn dominant) with white face stripe and white socks/long fluffy length coat
-semi-quiet, likes to "wrestle" play.

-Birth day weight 1lb 3.6 oz
-Darker fawn with gray tones /medium length coat
-pretty quiet

-Birth day weight 1lb 2.2 oz
-Medium dark fawn/medium length coat
-very quiet

-at 2 weeks old I realized he was really a she.
-Birth day weight 14 oz
-medium fawn with gray tones/short length coat
-pretty quiet

-Birth day weight 1lb 1.6 oz
-darker fawn with 1 white sock/longer ROUGH coat
-Calm/quiet

-Birth day weight 1 lb 1.1 oz
-medium fawn/medium length coat
-pretty quiet

-Birth day weight 1 lb 3.4 oz
-Brindle (fawn dominant)
- long ROUGH coat
-pretty vocal, especially at mealtime!

-Birth day weight 1 lb 0.9 oz
-Brindle (fawn dominant)
-short length coat
-kinda vocal

-Birth day weight 1 lb 3.1 oz
-Brindle (fawn dominant)
-long ROUGH length coat
-calm/quiet

Our breeding LGDs are in a pen primarily with goats and chickens. Since we were not expecting more puppies this early in the year we had to improvise. It is very cold so we moved Mama to the barn and set up her whelping box in a warmer building.
Mama approves...she is on her back asleep.
UPDATE: 3/1/26
The whelping box was removed a month ago. They sleep in the straw in the barn and are out with Mama in the stock and flock pen during the day.

Puppy Weights-
I weighed the puppies for the first time the evening of their birth day. In the beginning, I will weigh the puppies twice a week. Then, once a week. As the puppies get older, I will be weighing them either weekly or bi-weekly.
Puppy Deworming Schedule-
The typical schedule calls for Mamas to be dewormed at the beginning of their heat cycle and at 50-52 days of gestation. The typical schedule calls for the puppies to be dewormed at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 weeks. I follow the chart to the left.
Puppy Nail Trimming-
Each puppy's reaction will be different. Their first nail trimming will be done with a Dremel.
Spreadsheet links are listed below

This link brings you to the Livestock Guardian Dog page.

This link brings you to the Pedigree papers found on the Livestock Guardian Dog page.

This link brings you to our adult's Health testing/OFA results found on our Livestock Guardian Dog page.
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