Some of the sheep ranchers on the coast from Bodega Bay to Gualala use Llamas to protect their sheep.
Twice, I have seen these Llamas really kicking and pounding coyotes until the coyotes crawled away. Once with one of my adult sons and once with my wife.
5th great grandfather, Henry Livingston, lost sheep to wild dogs. He would have loved learning about alpacas. His cousin, Robert Livingston, wrote a book on Merino sheep, which they were trying to raise in NY around that time. Because they couldn't afford to hire shepherds as they did in Europe, the early NYers built stone walls to hold the livestock in and the predators out. The fashion for expensive sheep died out quickly, along with the poor sheep.
