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> >For the nutrition, donkey's don't do so well on rich pasture, right?
> 

Hair splitting.  Donkey's will eat just about anything.  If they have 
pasture, they will eat that and do fine.  If they don't, they will eat what's 
there.

During the Drought of Bibilical Proportions of the past two years, the 
winter pastures were so bare (because of no rain from June to December) that 
the 
horse lost a lot of weight and the cow had to be fed all and sundry bulky 
supplements such as beet pulp.

The donkey?  He gained weight.

He ate the lichens and moss by the creek and crunched up pine cones and 
greenbriar.  

But now he's on thick, rich clover pasture and he's still in top shape.


James