11/11/10, 12:52 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Northern Saskatchewan
Posts: 1,477
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jill.costello
Is he a bit over at the knees? <I'm trying to maintain my "critical eye" while being over-come with oogly-google squishy cuteness!!!!!>
Very young babies can grow out of over-at-the-knees very quickly, but do keep an eye on the little bugger!!!!
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Oh he is all bent to pieces. He is HUGE compared to his mom. And she wasn't big at all. He must have been folded into a pretzel in there. I was expecting her to have a tiny little runty thing, not this monster. He really is big in real life. I am surprised he came out as straight as he did! lol! He will be alright once he 'unfolds'.
And if it makes any difference he is probably inbred as heck! Some elderly people started out with a few donkeys years and years ago, didn't geld the jacks and they kept multiplying. Suddenly they had to get rid of all of them and some guy rounded them all up to try and find them good homes. I picked two out of a herd of at least 20 (after many were already sold and gone) and we had to rope them to catch them. Her last baby was 10 months old in March so the guy figured she would have it no later than June because according to her owners she supposedly had 7 babies in the last 7 years all in the late spring, early summer (she is supposed to be nine). THe younger donkey MAY have been bred and she could have foaled anytime. But she has regularly been in heat so I am sure she isn't. She turned two in the spring. Supposedly! lol! Nothing was really for sure I guess.
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