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For a mini donkey:
No corn it causes HUGE problem for donkeys and really all equines.
1/2 pound oats (steam, crimped or cracked) some how broken or they will just pass right through. measure by weight not volume.
1/2 ounce mazola corn oil ( helps prevent colic)
1/2 ounce sho-glo or colvite (vitamins and minerals)
1 to 2 flakes of hay daily. bermuda or other low protein hay.
I feed in the evenings for warmth.
Bare ground is fine as long as you have a shelter were he can dry out his feet to prevent thrush (a fungus in the hooves) and rain scald-another fungus on the skin can cause bald spots. you can treat the spots cheaply with vingar or listrine in a squirt bottle (sprays freak them out), for about 1 week of daily squirts. Horse.com has everything you can't find at tractor supply. Our tractor supply is having a horse decorating party sat the 17th and a vet will be giving cogging for 28 dollars avoiding the additional the farm call charge. check with yours. If you change the feed, do so over a week to 2 week course to prevent colic. Treats will cause your mini to get bite!! in the quest for treats!! I give only oats for good behavior--standing for farrier trims, for my husband picking out his back feet. I use a hoof sealant Jay-jay's feet in wet weather, our pasture fill up thru the middle in rain storms and the sealant works for 1 week and can be put on wet cleaned hooves. I use meredith hodges worming schudule every 2 months with ivermectic and in noverber I used Srongid to break the predictable cycle of worming and to kill any worms that are not affected by the invermectin. i use 1/2 of the womer you will most likely get 3 treatment, so you may want to keep that refrigated, not sure how long it will last opeden and 6 months is a long time.
If you get a another donkey as a full time compaion donkey will spend time with each other and not protect anything. another eqiune or large animal ,sheep,some goats cow are fine for company. A mini donkey can only protect from things smaller than he is, that is to say he is too small for coyotos and wolfs--he would become dinner. If you have an intact jack, please have him gelded--all those hormones can be dangerous. They are altered differently, and require a stiching and tying that horses do not and are very senetive to drugs and have a tendece to wake up in the middle of things, an extra bit of drugs to put them back under can and does result in death.--so go with a vet that has perform donkey alters. Now is the best time because of flies.
Mine has 2 spots to roll around in--gets insulted when you brush it out--but boy does he like to be brushed.
Remember his is a desert animal and will get overweight quickly from over feeding. Now mine Never gets too much petting!!
forgot to add, donkeys thinks dogs are coyotes so do be careful of a family pet.
For a mini donkey:
No corn it causes HUGE problem for donkeys and really all equines.
1/2 pound oats (steam, crimped or cracked) some how broken or they will just pass right through. measure by weight not volume.
1/2 ounce mazola corn oil ( helps prevent colic)
1/2 ounce sho-glo or colvite (vitamins and minerals)
1 to 2 flakes of hay daily. bermuda or other low protein hay.
I feed in the evenings for warmth.
Bare ground is fine as long as you have a shelter were he can dry out his feet to prevent thrush (a fungus in the hooves) and rain scald-another fungus on the skin can cause bald spots. you can treat the spots cheaply with vingar or listrine in a squirt bottle (sprays freak them out), for about 1 week of daily squirts. Horse.com has everything you can't find at tractor supply. Our tractor supply is having a horse decorating party sat the 17th and a vet will be giving cogging for 28 dollars avoiding the additional the farm call charge. check with yours. If you change the feed, do so over a week to 2 week course to prevent colic. Treats will cause your mini to get bite!! in the quest for treats!! I give only oats for good behavior--standing for farrier trims, for my husband picking out his back feet. I use a hoof sealant Jay-jay's feet in wet weather, our pasture fill up thru the middle in rain storms and the sealant works for 1 week and can be put on wet cleaned hooves. I use meredith hodges worming schudule every 2 months with ivermectic and in noverber I used Srongid to break the predictable cycle of worming and to kill any worms that are not affected by the invermectin. i use 1/2 of the womer you will most likely get 3 treatment, so you may want to keep that refrigated, not sure how long it will last opeden and 6 months is a long time.
If you get a another donkey as a full time compaion donkey will spend time with each other and not protect anything. another eqiune or large animal ,sheep,some goats cow are fine for company. A mini donkey can only protect from things smaller than he is, that is to say he is too small for coyotos and wolfs--he would become dinner. If you have an intact jack, please have him gelded--all those hormones can be dangerous. They are altered differently, and require a stiching and tying that horses do not and are very senetive to drugs and have a tendece to wake up in the middle of things, an extra bit of drugs to put them back under can and does result in death.--so go with a vet that has perform donkey alters. Now is the best time because of flies.
Mine has 2 spots to roll around in--gets insulted when you brush it out--but boy does he like to be brushed.
Remember his is a desert animal and will get overweight quickly from over feeding. Now mine Never gets too much petting!!
forgot to add, donkeys thinks dogs are coyotes so do be careful of a family pet.
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