We finally have our sheep in addition to our goats, geese,ducks,turkeys and chickens. The dogs are getting more of a chance to actually work around the animals although at this point it is pretty simple while the newer animals are getting used to us. We have a small flock of Romney and a small Katahdin hair sheep flock also so are looking forward to lambs next year. Our dogs have always worked around the broilers and laying hens, which can be pretty flighty. We are interested in how they will do with the larger animals. Beau has shown his protective instincts around both the goats and the sheep. I will try to record in more detail what he has done on his page. I can say this- I don't worry about going out in the ram's field with grain for the chickens when I have Beau with me. Beau has spent some nights in the barn guarding his goslings after we had one badly damaged while in the barn one night. Whatever attacked the poor gosling wasn't able to more than damage him but we ended up losing him. Once Beau was in the barn all night there were no more attacks.