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Me neither. It's all in people's minds as a bad thing. I don't particularly WANT to eat a horse or donkey, but when food is scarce, they provide a large source of meat. In those circumstances, even the pet crowd will be sharpening up some knives, make no mistake.

We are playing with the idea of using a shock collar on the donkey to do some training. Found out they have used it for problem horses and it worked, so would like to see if it would work for the donkey. And...it would be kind of fun to shock an animal that will stomp on a lamb and a puppy. ;)

Funny you should say that....we had already discussed how donkey meat would taste. Seriously. Here in WV we aren't too shy about trying ways to get meat on the table. :D

Stimulus gravel?

I don't mind folks saying "I told you so"....I do it often enough. A person can't live entirely on second hand information....as you've seen so many times on BYC~whole slew of folks giving other people advice on things they've never tried on their own but they've read about them in a book...

She will be greatly missed. A dear, kind and wonderful person to know and another light bearer that fought back the darkness in this world. Any news on her boy and who will be caring for him now?

Thank you, Henless! Now, this is going to make youin's anti-donkey folks real happy. The donkey garnered strike three this morning of unpredictable and irrational behavior with potentially lethal outcomes and she is currently listed for sale.....tons of responses right away, as donkeys seem...

Wow! You folks are harsh! Since when have you known me to be an animal collector? Every animal I have on my place has a purpose and if they don't do the job, they are out. They are either food, making food or guarding food. The donkey is an experiment, just as are the LGDs for that...

Exactly. :rolleyes: I remember last year when I told Mom...I said, "Mom, why don't we get a few sheep to eat this grass instead of paying all this lawn mower repair and using up all this time mowing?" Over $5K later we have a farmette going, with (currently)8 sheep and one or more yet to be...

She hasn't been near any of them yet. I may take Blue down there and see how she acts with him...but he's very scared of her anyway, so I don't want to freak him out. Could be that this new pup will have to be the donkey's dog...and the only dog she adapts to. It will be young enough she...

That happens ALL the time....for some reason folks have forgotten that dogs can live outdoors all the time without anything being bad about that. Then they complain because preds are still getting their chickens AND they have another mouth to feed/nuisance on their hands. This donkey only...

Ben won't stay in electric boundaries now that he lost Jake last fall....keeps running off, so has to be tied, which means he isn't good for much of anything here. He will be going to a new home soon up on PA where they have the appropriate fences for his issues. Blue wants to be with Ben...

This one will be earning her keep in keeping the 'yotes and bears off the sheep as they rotate through our pastures. I wouldn't have an animal that was just for ornamentation. If she doesn't do the job, she's outta here. With her, she can eat the same feed at the sheep, lives longer than...

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the garden, but does with our soon to be established rotational grazing with sheep....got a new, more reliable livestock guardian to take over for the dogs that aren't up to snuff. Willow...our new, sweet donkey. She was calm when she arrived, let us...

Dig, my life hasn't changed much at all...truly. Other than hearing about odds and ends of inconveniences when it comes to shopping from other folks, I've not experienced much change other than not getting to go to Good Will, which I miss. One major change is that we cannot visit my father...

Still building fence and trying desperately to get to work on the garden so I can build a raised bed or two and plant some spuds, get some more rhubarb and asparagus in the ground and also finish the spring/pond there. Started it and never got back to it and it's overflowing its banks. Lots...

I know!!!! :weee Every single time I look at them, it makes me smile all the way down in my heart!

Juniper is June....I call her either name on any given day. She is originally just June, but I tend to call her Juniper out of fondness.

No, just the four~Rose, Fat May, June and Shine. Hope to add a few rams and 3-4 ewe lambs this season from the same place we got May and June.