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hello guys, I am going to contact my vet as well, but I thought you all might have an idea. I bought my wonderful little 5 month old baby donkey from a really nice lady here but unfortunately he really didn't get weaned from him momma before I got him. I talked with my vet and she said to...

Hello, I have a nice barn with several nice size stalls in it. I was wondering how many people stall their donks and how many just use run -ins. Oh also, what is the deal with the poop. HAHAHAH I see so many people talking about poop burms. Do they poop more than a mini? is that why so...

Hello, I am buying my new little mini donkey. I just love him. He will be weaned and home on the 15th of December. Some people have said to just feed them hay and that is sufficient, but I heard the same thing with the minis. But I would never just feed my mini horses hay only. Do you feed...

hello, I have miniature horses and was planning on possibly adding either a miniature donkey to my herd. Here is my questions? do they eat the same as my minis would? do they require the same hoof trimmings and shots? do they Bray alot? I was at a farm and they had a regular donkey that...

Hello, I have 5 miniatures right now and 3 1/2 acres fenced for my animals. I know a lady that has this wonderful traveling petting zoo and she has offered me at a rediculously low price a few of her bottle baby animals. I am only getting one. So here is my delimma WHICH ONE. She has raised...

Hello, I am thinking about buying a pregnancy test for a couple of my mares. I want to have them checked beforwe I start training them for show season. I hate to waste my time if they just happen to be bred. I was going to have the vet out but its so expensive. It will cost me close to $175...

Hello, I found a beautiful show cart that I just love. I will be picking it up very soon. However its the most gorgeous dark Emerald Green with gold pin striping (I just love it), its a Jerald show cart and my favorite color. But I haven't really seen one like that in the show ring. All I...

Hello, I have been looking at show carts. I am planning on showing in driving in 2008 but I need advice on something that is affordable but is acceptable to show in. I don't want something that I am going to stand out in, that makes me look like I don't have the right equipment or that I am...

Hi guys, I hate to put this on here but I was really trying hard to find Getitia. I don't know what farm she is from. I thought she was either in IL or OH, I had spoken to her a long time ago and now I need her advise again. Please have her email me at [email protected]. Thank you

I know that mares that are close to foaling will yawn. But I have this mare that was sick with Diahrea from switching feed (TOTALLY MY FAULT AND I KNOW BETTER) but I had to switch her feed and she got sick. Well last night when I went in to give her the Keopectate she was yawning an aweful...

Hi guys, My friends neighbor had his full size MARES running with their Scottish bulls. Well the mare came in heat and the man VIDEOTAPED the mare being bred by the bull!!!! IS THAT NOT THE MOST DISCUSTING THING YOU CAN THINK OF. I couldn't believe it!!! I was outrages. I couldn't believe...

just their stomach moving. Hi eveyone, I have a mare that was bred for an early June baby. But I don't believe she actually looks pregnant. She looks just fine to me although I do feel and see movement in her belly. I have had other friends of mine that says she doesn't look pregnant to...

Where are some good places to go for Color DNA testing. I believe I only saw one listed on LB but I didn't know if there were others. Also, If I send my hair samples into the lab to be tested say for LWO Gene and it comes back negative for LWO will it tell me what it is positive for? Say will...

Hi everyone, I know it has happened I just don't know how common it is, for a mare to foal when you didn't even know she was bred. Did they even look pregnant at all???

I have a solar fence for up to a 10 mile radius for the dogs and the horses. We have 3 great pyrs that can basically get out of anything. I have no climb horse security fencing up and when the ground got soft they started digging to get under the fence so they could run. :no: They don't go...

I know that sounds like a REALLY DUMB question. But, I have always used Timothy/orchard grass hay with a bit of Alfalfa in it? Well recently I bought 100 bales from someone who I have purchased from before and the hay itself looked great but it had a TON of dirt in it so I had to go out and...

I have been thinking lately about adding BOSS to my horses diets but I currently feed... 1 cup Buckeye Supreme 1 1/2 cups soaked beet pulp plus their hay 2 times a day. My horses weight all looks really good. But I have heard so many good things about BOSS that I thought I would try it...

I was talking to my husband and my mom and was wondering if I am even supposed to be deworming my horses in the winter. I know it wouldn't hurt them any to deworm them but we were talking, If fly larva causes worms and there are no fly's what is the point in deworming in the winter? I always...

Here is why I ask. My stallion is leaving for driving training in approx. 6 weeks. I only have one stallion since I only have 3 breedable mares at this time. I have a wonderful mare that has an impeccable pedigree and I want to breed her to an incredible stallion since mine of course will be...

Hello everyone, I really need advice. I got in 70 bales of hay from my hay guy. He normally gets me GREAT hay. I bought 100 bales in the summer last year that he kept for me until I got moved. Anyway, to make a long story short the hay he brought me wasn't the same hay I bought. He...