Post by nina on Apr 24, 2021 17:27:27 GMT -5
I lost my mind and got a miniature pregnant jenny with foundered feet today. I bought her sight unseen. I had hoped to put my old lady miniature horse with her today but she galloped around screaming for her friends and got the other minis and new donkey nervous so I put the miniature horse back with her friends and left the mini donkey in a small pen with a run in shelter and timothy hay. The guy said the currently un named donkey is about 6 and heavy bred. The donkey was very slow leading so I thought her feet hurt and let her loose without a halter. Without the halter she is pretty spry and would not let me get near enough to properly photograph her feet. I'm sending an SOS out to my farrier today. The pen the donkey is in alone shares a fence line with an obnoxious standard uncut jack, the other fence line she can only see my mini horses across a driveway. Is there anything I should or should not be doing? Will the jack hop the fence? The donkey seemed stressed so I decided just to leave her alone for now. My old lady mini horse Violet usually just sleeps and falls asleep when the farrier works on her, or even a crowd of visitors fussing over her she just falls asleep, so I was surprised with her very strong reaction though she does have separation anxiety away from her herd, but they were just 20 feet away. Do those calming treats for horses work? I would feel better if the the donkey had a companion. My other two mini horses are young. The mare Confetti is a witch and Woodrow is small but a persistent pest biting and rearing and wrestling. He is friendly but very physical however he doesn't bite hard and break the skin. Lately he has been holding Confettis leg in the air with his mouth, biting her around the cannon bone. Woodrow exhausts me just watching him worry Confetti, but they are equals in obnoxious behavior. Any suggestions?