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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

I've never had split pastures and possibly the reason the jacks were all 
nice mannered is the old ladies would have whooped the hell out of them. 
Had a neighbor's big ol' boar get out in the field once and my big ol' gray 
quarter mare ran him up a tree!  Should have heard the owner of that pig 
whine about his piggie being bruised.  Told him he was lucky the thing was 
alive.  Mares with foals aren't reknown for being friendly and can be down 
right deadly!

Lynda
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
>
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
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