Tell me about donkeys..

My three milk cows are horribly scarred from where the donkey bit them after chasing them down. This was after he'd been in with them for nearly two years with no problems. Suddenly they needed to be ousted from the pasture in his mind. He killed one goat, maimed another and then decided that no goats should be able to enter his pasture. This was a gelded donkey. He went to live at my dad's house with a horse three times his size. The donkey's trying to maul the horse too. I won't have another donkey.

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April
Southeast Missouri
Nubians, Boers, Jersey cows and a whole lotta ticks

Mine is a sweetheart. He will go where you want him to, if you are firm.

If someone gets a donkey that has spent it's life hanging with cows or goats, then they should not expect it to be the ideal kids' pet. Personally, I would not even put a donkey with goats, though, that's asking for trouble.

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Does Rosie keep away the coyotes ....... I don't know .I can say that the nightly encounters stopped the day I brought her home .She is a mini .Weighs about as much as a good sized ram . Shes a bully , she will not walk around a flock of sheep .When its her turn to drink ... its her turn to drink .The sheep have accepted her as the domante (sp) leader .I think she is the bees knees

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To give an ideal of Rosies size .......... heres a picture of her next to a couple of Feb. 2012 ewe lambs .

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Cute!

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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap."

I love my Donkeys and Mule. Both Donkeys are just over one year old and are awesome. We got them from a guy that had to many and was trying to get down to a managable herd size. We can leave the gate open and they will walk up to it and stop. They are so loving it is crazy. When I get home from work at night our jenny runs up to the truck and brays at me until I giver her attention. Our Jack has bonded with my Wife and is her best friend. She has them both trained to carry packs and they love to just hang around with their human family.
Yes, they can be a pain to train because they are so intelligent. You need alot of patients with them but one they learn that doing what you ask them to makes you happy and they get a reward (our reward to them is a chin scratch) they will to almost anything you ask.
Ours live with our chickens and have never made a move to harm them. They also play with our Dogs but because they all have learned each others boundries they are never mean (Dogs or Donkeys). Our Black Lab will lay in the pasture with them and jumb in their water trough whle they drink. Donkeys have an awesome personality and are very easy keepers. They require very little feed as long as they are on decent pasture and if raised right are very loving.
They are also emotional. Our Jack LOVES my Wife. The other day I put them in the front yard to eat the grass while my Wife was weeding her flower garden. Ben (our jack) ran right over to her to get some love. She stood up to pet him and when he moved to rub up against her he stepped on her foot. Since she was wearing flip flops her really hurt her. She screamed and pushed him away and when she fell to the ground he got a really pitiful look on his face and tried to nuzzle her face (like he was trying to say sorry). I ended up taking her to the hospital to get her broken foot put in a cast. When I was helping her hobble to the truck he very slowly walked beside us allowing her to put her weight on his back to get to the truck. After we left the Kids said he stood at the gate with a forlorn look on his face staring in the direction we had driven. When we got home later that evening he ran to the truck and when she opened her dorr Ben stuck in head in the door and layed his chin on her lap and wouldn't move until she told hm in a sothing voice that she wan't mad at him. When she goes outside with her crutches now Ben will stand at the base of our porch steps and allow her to lean on him as her crutch.
Beckie, our jenny had almost no human contact before we got her. Her Mother was very scared of people and always kept Beckie away from her previous owners. When we got her it took a long time before she would come near us and that was ony when we had a treat for her. She is now attached to me and loves "hanging out" with us. She now lets me put her halter on and will lead for a little while.
If nothing else Donkeys are entertaining. They love to play and the more attention you give to them the more fun you can have with them. They are very curious and calm. Not much scares them. If something startles them they will generally stop what they are doing, take a step back and try to figure out what is wrong. Their intelligence is just amazing. They pretty much ignore our Dogs but will go after neighborhood dogs that get in the yard along with fox and coyotes.

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Donkeys are very fast learners for sure ...

She was just another face in a crowd of about 50 other donkeys .She is just now starting to warm up to me

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We bought a 3 year old Jenny to be a pasture pal and companion to our goats, but now not so sure she is working out. She was luke warm to me for the first few months, I tried to brush her, walk her, etc. I am the one who worms her and gives her shots and tries to put fly spray on her - now she hates me and avoids me. She won't let me pet her, not that she was that cuddly before, and won't let me put her lead on. She is iffy with my husband too.
We had a teenage girl here about doing dog sitting in the summer, and the donkey loved her, I've never seen her like it, cuddled right up to her and stood still and got loved on... Makes me think she just doesn't like it here or us?
Plus she chases our goats sometimes - usually it's fairly harmless, and the goats seem like they play back and butt her sometimes when they are on their pedestals, but once I found a scratch on our one nanny's back like she had scratched her with teeth, and I worry about this fall when they are bred that the donkey will harm them while pregnant. Sometimes when she is chasing them she sorta head butts them in the side.
Needless to say, we are thinking of rehoming her. We are not enjoying her and end up keeping her in her stall and run because she gives us such a hard time going out to her pasture.