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Mammoth donkeys are a registered breed of donkey, this is not a mule. Read all about the mammoth donkey in the American Jackstock Breed
Here is the history of the American Mammoth Donkey Gifts to President George Washington from the President Of Spain. Enjoy!
GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!
Melody Johnson
Call the vet asap as your donkey, horse or mule can die from colic!
Intestinal upset, diarrhea, colic and laminitis, lung, liver and heart health issues. Feed intended for chickens may be filled with additives that are very toxic for donkeys, mules and horses.
Donkeys are visual learners, meaning a donkey can watch you do something and repeat it. Excellent gates, fences and locks are needed when owning donkeys or they will get lose.
Yes. Donkeys can grab the neck of the chicken and snap it or stomp, kick the chicken in the head. Please create a place separate from the donkeys for your chickens and donkeys to live.
Chickens that roam the pastures can also cause health issues for your equine partner. Lice is a huge problem for donkeys due to their thick fur coat. Sanitation issues from chicken droppings can pose health problems for horses such as infection from Salmonella, botulism, candidiasis and histoplasmosis (fungal infections) and even streptococcus.
Salmonella usually affects the gut and may cause severe diarrhea in donkeys, horses and mules :
The clinical signs of Salmonellosis in adult donkeys include diarrhea, lethargy, fever, anorexia, and colic. Affected donkeys, horses and mules will be susceptible to infection. Once recovered, these horses may continue to shed the bacteria in their feces, potentially transmitting it to other equine.
Sadly I have received too many e-mails of people who did not call the vet or waited too long and the equine died. If you love your equine call the vet asap!
GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!
Melody Johnson, Trainer/Owner
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ON DONKEY TIME ® is our business logo! Stay calm, have a plan and be a fair leader.
Remembering my friends (former student husband and wife) living in France with Galopin the standard donkey sadly he died after being gelded. The vet did not have experience with donkeys. Galopin did not wake up after the drugs were administered.
GOD is great and they now own two more donkeys a girl named Bichette and a boy named Bijou’s here is a little insight into life on the farm in France.
Thinking about adding a donkey to your goats pasture?
Please get two donkeys. Females with females or geldings with geldings is always best. Estrus can trigger even geldings to penetrate and hurt a female causing her to stop eating.
Why do some donkeys live in peace and harmony with goats and others do not?
*Depends on how the donkey was raised
*The sex of the donkey
*Donkey Lives Alone or With Another Donkey – A donkey forced to live alone will grab the neck and can kill a smaller animal fast.
*Does the donkey have another donkey to grab the neck, play tag and tug with. If not the donkey will do this with the goats. Donkeys are intelligent and get bored fast. Give your donkey another donkey to live with in peace and harmony.
Remember when baby’s come to separate the baby goats away from the donkeys until they are old enough to outrun the donkey.
Make sure your pasture is big enough for all to play. Too small and deaths will occur.
Personally, I would keep my donkeys in a separate pasture, paddock. The diet for the donkey is strict. Donkeys evolved from the desert. Donkeys gain weight fast. Donkeys can get a wild hair and start grabbing the neck and can kill a goat, sheep, pig, dog etc., fast.
GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!
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GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!
Melody
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Melody
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Donkeys are not horses with long ears
First comes taming, next comes teaching the donkey, horse or mule to become an honor equine
My husband Scott and I have owned Rio our Mammoth donkey since he was nine months old. He came to us with no training, in fact we could not lead him at all. Rocket Man came with Rio at thirteen and he had many issues of mis-trust, he is no longer afraid of anything. Miss Lily my horse came into our lives at twenty months with no training. I have helped over one hundred people world-wide with their donkeys and mules and a handful of horses learn how to train and stay a leader 100% of the time.
Rio (our Mammoth donkey) two days old
Picking out the hooves should be done each and every day just like brushing your teeth, if not every day at least three times a week.
Imperative to keep the training in place for the trimmer, Farrier or vet. Additionally this helps you make sure no thrush or rocks are stuck in their hooves. Being a proactive human will keep your equine in optimum health.
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GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged! Melody http://www.youversion.com/mobile https://www.facebook.com/Donkeywhisperer http://donkeywhispererfarm.com
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Melody & Scott Johnson (hubby with Rocket Man)
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Praying I can get well enough to teach Rio to pull a cart in 2014!
One more!
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Donkeys are really unique, they are not horses with long ears. Donkeys require a special diet of tested low sugar/low protein hay. Donkeys get sick when fed oats, green grass, brush, cookies, and high sugar grain and alfalfa. Best to keep them on a really basic diet, with clean water, salt and test low sugar hay, timothy or orchard works the best. Donkeys come from the desert, they require some old stumps to eat along with a dry paddock as this works best to keep them at their optimum weight and health. Donkeys were created by GOD to live in the desert on not much at all and they can gain weight really quick causing hoof problems, fat neck, laminitis, abscesses and a slow death. We will be growing 10 acres of low sugar orchard hay on our new twenty acre farm in Sequim, Washington. Domesticated donkeys can live forty to fifty years while horses can live to be in their thirties. “I highly recommend placing all of your animals in your will so if trauma hits your beloved animals will be taken care of.”
GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!
Melody
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Friends of the Donkey Whisperer Farm,
This is a training video
Notice I am teaching Tuba the standard size donkey to pick up his feet with no resistance. No one is holding him and he is standing still, this is only our third lesson since the semi-truck accident in 2010.
Tuba and Obo are very special to me as are all the equine in our world. Notice I start working with Tuba first and Obo is watching. Donkeys are visual learners and mostly introverts so letting them stand back and watch the honor equine (understands what to do donkey) is always the best training. Never let the naughty donkey watch you work with a naughty donkey as they will copy what they see. 🙂
After I finished working with Tuba I worked with Obo and picked his feet out the same way. The only difference is he has the nasty habit of trying to drag the human so we worked on this. He can now stand quietly for the farrier and we are doing both of his their hooves this weekend. Sadly due to the car accident and my back and hip pain I was not able to go work with them until recently. Obo has been being so naughty he has to be sedated each time he is trimmed. This Sunday we will video tape him getting his hooves trimmed with no sedation.
All of our equine get their hooves picked out each and every day while they are eating their hay. They have no halter on and it is done just the way you see in this video. It takes about 1 minute per equine and keeps their hooves healthy to avoid thrush and ensure no rocks are stuck but also it imprints them and keeps them comfortable when the trimmer comes to work on the hooves every seven weeks.
If you would like to work with me I am available starting in January for new clients as I am starting my new world-wide business Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC.
GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!
Melody
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