LGD pups at work

Arthur & George

out in the pasture with the ewes and lambs

Female Puppy # 8 Calls Wisconsin Home

These are photos of the # 8 female puppy in her new home / farm, and learning the pasture boundries with her mentor 'Rio'.

It looks like she's fitting right into her new flock at FireFlyFields.

Pyrenees Puppies ~ Individual Photos

Here are some individual pixs of some of the puppies.

Taken 5-20-10

Testing out my new Nikon D3000

Male1

all white Female 2 & Male 3

Male 1 - again
(just cuz he's such a cute pudge)

Female 8

Female 6 & Female 4

Male 5

Female 6

Day Twelve

Feeding frenzy

Jeni with all 8 pups snuggled in. Can you find them all?

We smell the momma "Time for lunch"

Day 12

Eyes are starting to open

Litter mates make great pillows!

Shhhhh, don't wake the babies

7 little puppies all in a row

Sleeping (and growing) is hard work!

The Puppies Have Arrived

The first puppy arrived at 7:30 pm on 4-22-10 , and the last arrived at 1:00 am 4-23-10.

Jeni and I both needed a good sleep afterwards.

This is a pix of 3 of the first 4 puppies born

This morning Jeni & pups are now rested, with full tummies, and nice and clean & dry.

Jeni making sure I don't muss with the order of her pups.

final count 8 puppies

4 females (1 white: 3 marked)

4 males (1 white: 3 marked)

1st photo's of Jeni's puppies

These are the first photos of Jeni's litter of Great Pyrenees puppies.

Taken on 4-17-10

There seems to be 8 - 9 puppies that are due next week.

Jeni ~ Our 'expecting' Great Pyrenees

This is Beechtrees 'Jeni'

The first 2 photos were taken this afternoon out in the pasture. She's got about 3 1/2 more weeks before she is due, and she is starting to slow up just a bit, and her appetite is increasing.
Jeni is out of Zora's 3rd litter, sired by our male 'Dan'.
(*Dan is pictured at the top of this blog page, guarding the Bluefaced Leicester ewe lambs)

This photo of Jeni was taken on the day that I picked her up after her stay with the owners of 'Lefty'. Lefty is the sire of this upcoming litter. (* see 'Lefty's photos in a previous post)

Great Pyrenees Litter Due

Beechtrees Jeni

(Beechtrees FarOut Jack Daniels x Beechtrees Zora of Winrose)

Has been bred to

Ch. Charbonneau's Dark Roast (aka 'Lefty')

puppies are expected the week of April 20th, 2010

This mating should produce excellent working and companion temperaments,

along with nice pigment and markings.

*photos of sire below*

Ch. Charbonneau's Dark Roast

'Lefty'

OFA: excellent

Photos of the dam: Jeni will be posted in a later entry.

'Cooper' heads for the U.P.

Last summer one of our 'started' female Great Pyrenees LGD's "Kate' headed to the U.P. of Michigan to guard some Shetland's and Targhee's from the "local" predators up there. Her new owners knew that eventually with coyotes, bobcat, bear, and wolves in the area they would need a 2nd dog to assist 'Katie'. Well, Sunday morning I recieved an email from her owners that Katie had single handily kept out some type of canine invasion, but they were affraid that the 'pack' would be back.
So we made arrrangements that they would make a trip below the 'bridge' on Monday to pick up 'Cooper' a 8 month old Pyrenees male that was being mentored by Kate's sister (Jeni) and Kate's dam (Zora).
I got an email on Tuesday morning that Kate was "in heaven" to have a buddy, and this is the same pup that she started to break in last summer before she moved to the U.P.
We hope Katie and Cooper have a great life in the U.P. and that their owners can now rest peacefully at night knowing they've got two dogs to watch over their flock.

Beechtree's Cooper

1-28-2010

8 months old

Beechtrees Hank

Beechtrees Hank

aka. 'Hank'

Great Pyrenees

8/11/04

Puppy Tutoring 101

I picked up a new Pyrenees puppy almost a week ago.

It didn't take him long to settle in to his new home and show that he was going to be a bit too forward with the lambs. He thought that their ears were just right for nipping, and that wool was for pulling. NOT!

So, I thought I'd try putting 'Kate' one of our younger LGD's in with him to mentor him, and wear him down a bit. He wasted no time in using her as his new personal chewy and 'flossing' toy.

Kate and the new pup

The lambs checking out this new mini 'Tasmanian' furball.

Springtime at Beechtree

Beechtree's 'Jeni' keeping a watchful eye on all the lambs out in the pasture.

A young 'Blue' fellow out looking for his mum, as he is in need of refreshment.