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..> Each donkey is different, but I can give you horror stories out
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.
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).
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