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How exactly does one disinfect a stall?

I just found out from the vet that one of my donkeys has lice (which means they probably all do ). I of course was mortified, but the vet said donkeys are susceptible to lice. I read online that donkeys need to be treated for lice 5 times a year? Is this true? I had no idea it was such a...

Susan, my jenny isn't spotted-she's gray. She does have some black marks on her legs and I want to say she has a dark spot on her rump. Here's a picture of her from the summer. I'm glad to know breeding her to a spotted jack won't be a total waste. At least the baby would have the spotted...

We have a gray jenny with a lot of spots in her pedigree. Her parents were both gray, but farther back there's both spotted and white. I was wondering if it would be worth it to breed her to a spotted jack (with the intention of trying to get a spotted baby)? What is also confusing me is...

She vacuums them? That's hilarious! I tried that once with the dog, but never with my donkeys. Maybe I'll bring the shop vac down to the barn... lol I hope she has a heated barn if she's bathing them all winter. Doesn't she live in New York or something?

hmmmmm...I found a really inexpensive mini horse/pony size bareback pad with stirrups on ebay and went ahead and ordered it. Hopefully it will work. My gelding has a pretty big gut (lol) so we'll see. Maybe I'll need to alter it a little. I'm really just concerned with kids getting dirty when...

What about one of those bareback pad with the stirrups? Do you think something like that would work?

We've given a few kids a bareback "pony" ride on our gelding Wilbur and he was awesome about it. We were thinking about getting him a saddle, but I wasn't sure what size to get. Would a mini horse saddle work? Or do I need to measure him? Also do any of you use bridles with your minis or...

That picture is so funny! I've been keeping an eye on the heard lately and now it seems the girls are all BFFs and the gelding has been sulking in the barn. Gelding and Mule used to be BFFs and I think he might miss that baby Jack a little. So now he's been getting extra hugs and kisses. I...

We had a baby jack at our house for about 6 weeks. He had arrived at the same time as his mama and 2 other little Jennies. He played really well, but really rough with our gelding-trotting along beside him with a chunk of Wilbur's neck in his mouth. He was already trying to mount our Jennies...

Ronnie, I just want to say that I don't think that you or you wife had anything to do with this mix-up and I don't think your auction is like the auctions people have been posting about. My husband and I had a great time at your auction and will most likely be back next summer. When I...

I don't really understand the point in selling a donkey with another donkey's papers. If they were really trying to pass them off as hers wouldn't they have at least attached her picture to the papers? And I guess I understand that the auction people assume people know their own animals and...

So get this...I contacted the auction house and they gave me the number for the people who bought the other chocolate donkey and they don't think it's their donkey either. Also their donkey's coggins test said the donkey had a tatoo and I can't find a tatoo on mine SO I'm guessing maybe our...

This seems to be the one question that there just isn't an answer to! Like all of you I'm new to mini's and new to weanlings and petrified all my donkeys will be over weight. And everyone has a different take on this. However, I asked my vet about how much to feed my donkeys and although he...

There were a lot of donkeys for sale that day. There 70 something lots. I think I might know what happened. Our donkey came from New Mexico, but ended up on a farm in Georgia. There's another lot (the only one actually that matches) in the catalog for an unregistered Chocolate jennet born...

Thanks for confirming my suspicions. I'm hoping this is just a mistake. The donkey came from New Mexico, but the people who brought her to the auction were from somewhere else. I guess it's possible that in her transfer through several states that her papers just got mixed up, but you'd think...

As I've mentioned a couple of times before we just bought 4 donkeys at an auction-three of which are already registed and 1 (a 2 month old) who isn't. I had the vet out last weekend and he really didn't think our mama donkey was 7 years old. All I had to go on was her coggins test and what it...

I've always heard that if you leave a halter on then leather is better because if they do get caught on something it is more likely to break than nylon. I worked at a large horse farm where we had to keep halters on during turn out for identification purposes for a while and we put cheap...

He's gorgeous! How old is he? I think I need to more pictures of correct donkeys-like from the front and behind. All I can ever find online are drawings which are not helpful. I'm sort of obsessed with my donkeys being cow-hocked (see other thread) can you post a picture of Kilroy's a** so I...

Thanks for the advice. I certainly don't want to breed an animal just for the sake of breeding them. And I don't want to breed animals with obvious flaws either. It's really sort of a guessing game isn't it? I mean it's possible that her mom wasn't cow hocked and at the same time the jennet...