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[Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:
> I've never had an intact male donkey or horse bother the babies.  The
> weanlings, sometimes, but the babies never.  The only problem I ever had
> with an intact male anything was a Suffolk ram (I do NOT like Suffolk, btw
> <g>) and he would head butt the horses to get to their feed.  He stopped
> when an old gelding picked him up and tossed him.
.>
Each donkey is different, but I can give you horror stories out the
wazoo of intact males who killed small things. We had a sad case of a
litter of kittens stomped to death (okay, no one saw it, but even
tomcats don't stomp as was done to those kittens).

People have kept a male with the herd for years, and then had the jack
get a wild hare and kill all the kids. The intact jacks I have known
were more or less out of control until their respective ballectomies.
The jack that Bev has her eye on sounds like a sweetie, and he may
well be. Plus, he's an old guy, and age mellows us all (for the most
part).

Marie