Donkey

[roscoe erf]

I was speaking to a farmer the other day and the discussion got round as it does in this area to T.B .He said he had been told by another farmer that running a donkey in with the heard of cows reduced or stopped the occurrence of T.B .Now after id finished laughing and telling him he was having his leg pulled he asked me if I knew anyone selling any as he was going to give it a try ,he has been 3 years not clear, now id never heard of this and put it down to an old wives tale but thought id float it out on here and see if anyone else had come across this .

 

[hendrebc]

Might be some truth to it. Donkeys are used to guard livestock in some countries so they might chase any tb infected badgers away. I saw a picture on FB of a donkey with a dead coyote in its mouth. It had killed it while it was trying to kill someone's sheep and was still playing with it. If I'd been sh!t down for 3 years I'd be willing to give it a go.

 

[Ukjay]

Might be some truth to it. Donkeys are used to guard livestock in some countries so they might chase any tb infected badgers away. I saw a picture on FB of a donkey with a dead coyote in its mouth. It had killed it while it was trying to kill someone's sheep and was still playing with it. If I'd been sh!t down for 3 years I'd be willing to give it a go.

Donkeys Make Great Livestock Protection Against Coyote Predation

Donkeys hate coyotes, so much so that they sometimes go postal on them like this.

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[roscoe erf]

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Donkeys Make Great Livestock Protection Against Coyote Predation

Donkeys hate coyotes, so much so that they sometimes go postal on them like this.

www.wideopenspaces.com

is that what happened to Wile E. Coyote I always assumed he had run off with road runner and they were living happily in retirement i'm depressed now thanks

 

[Ukjay]

I was speaking to a farmer the other day and the discussion got round as it does in this area to T.B .He said he had been told by another farmer that running a donkey in with the heard of cows reduced or stopped the occurrence of T.B .Now after id finished laughing and telling him he was having his leg pulled he asked me if I knew anyone selling any as he was going to give it a try ,he has been 3 years not clear, now id never heard of this and put it down to an old wives tale but thought id float it out on here and see if anyone else had come across this .

Donkeys been used for a while as protection animals - two issues though, their bray is frikin annoying and they are more stubborn than women

 

[Ukjay]

is that what happened to Wile E. Coyote I always assumed he had run of with road runner and they were living happily in retirement i'm depressed now thanks

I can just see you now - tryin to persuade the bloody donkey to go somewhere: where's the frikin spade

 

[Scribus]

Donkeys are meant to be kept in pairs according to the Donkey Sanctuary, but I'm not over impressed with that crowd, if they had half as much interest in the welfare of their workers as they proclaim to have for the animals then it might be different.

 

[Dry Rot]

"Many a true word spoken in jest".

I was laughing too until I read H's post. I have no cattle but the electric fences, which aren't switched on all the time, stopped them coming in here.

 

[roscoe erf]

I can just see you now - tryin to persuade the bloody donkey to go somewhere: where's the frikin spade

I brought one back from Spain one holiday .............. a donkey not a spade

 

[M-J-G]

The Rodgers family on This Farming Life had donkeys, but still had TB.

Maybe the didn't run them together though.

 

[M-J-G]

I brought one back from Spain one holiday .............. a donkey not a spade

Don't be racist now!

 

[jendan]

I was speaking to a farmer the other day and the discussion got round as it does in this area to T.B .He said he had been told by another farmer that running a donkey in with the heard of cows reduced or stopped the occurrence of T.B .Now after id finished laughing and telling him he was having his leg pulled he asked me if I knew anyone selling any as he was going to give it a try ,he has been 3 years not clear, now id never heard of this and put it down to an old wives tale but thought id float it out on here and see if anyone else had come across this .

A bit like farmers keeping a goat with dairy cows years ago to stop Brucellosis abortion.

 

[john1968]

Donkeys been used for a while as protection animals - two issues though, their bray is frikin annoying and they are more stubborn than women

rubbish you haven't meet my Mrs a whole field of donkeys would be easier than her

 

[CharcoalWally]

Donkeys been used for a while as protection animals - two issues though, their bray is frikin annoying and they are more stubborn than women

And loud too. There's a donkey a couple of miles away from here, and I can hear it every time it has a new thought. ?⚱

 

[som farmer]

Really interested in this, met a chap who was milking horses, £30 + a litre, so, if I run a donkey with my milkers, and can actually get it in the parlour, will it keep tb badgers out, how much milk do they give, how safe are they to milk, co's I have heard they can kick like f###, then I woke up......………..the £30 bit was right, its used to make ladies cosmetics, perhaps that explains why women are so stubborn at times......

 

[ollie989898]

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Donkeys Make Great Livestock Protection Against Coyote Predation

Donkeys hate coyotes, so much so that they sometimes go postal on them like this.

www.wideopenspaces.com

Can you imagine the outcry if that happened in the UK? Would be in the media and condemned by all and sundry in minutes.

 

[hendrebc]

Can you imagine the outcry if that happened in the UK? Would be in the media and condemned by all and sundry in minutes.

Don't tell anyone then

 

[roscoe erf]

Donkeys been used for a while as protection animals - two issues though, their bray is frikin annoying and they are more stubborn than women

I get that but disease control one donkey in a 200 head heard ?

 

[MRT]

Other donkey talents include (I have been told!) breaking bulls to halter lead and preventing fighting in yards of bull beef. There was a video doing the rounds of a drunk lad jumping over a gate to knock a donkey out, the result was very funny he made an ass of himself by getting his ass kicked by an ass.

 

[MRT]