This is a scene I am starting to get used to seeing every day when I get home. As soon as I pull in the driveway the donkeys come over to get some love. They’ve decided that getting pet all over is very enjoyable and not actually torture. As long as I don’t make any big sudden moves they follow me around and investigate whatever I’m doing. I am totally in love.
This next pic is a scene I hope I never have to get used to seeing. It happened yesterday.
The goats managed to wedge themselves through the gap between the gate and post. Three very small, very agile and fast goats. One person. Not good odds. Thankfully, getting them back was easier than I expected. It took awhile to get their attention but I was finally able to lure them back in with Nilla Wafers. Hopefully we’ve fixed everything and I will not be coming home to this again anytime soon. They’re just so tiny still…
Over the weekend we decided that the donkeys were ready to get a little bit more freedom. Once they decided that nothing was going to jump out and eat them they really enjoyed themselves, although they stuck to each other like glue. But they ate, rolled, and chased each other around like crazy.
This was the first time that Dino and Lena actually saw them. They were very interested in them and Dino had me worried that he might jump the fence to get closer to them.
He paced up and down the fence line for quite awhile, even pawing at the ground occasionally. I felt bad for Lena because he bulldozed over her several times before she gave in and observed from a little further back. Sadly for Dino, Theo and Oliver got tired of watching his antics and went to take a nap.
A few hours later, it was time for everyone to come in for dinner and they marched themselves right back to their barn. Success!
Your horses are gorgeous! My cousin gave me a goat back in the early 1980’s. He followed me around like a dog,in fact he and my dog played together. I learned not to let the goat see me do anything because he would try it to. One day some chickens got in his pen. The gate was wired up and so I just climbed over the fence. He saw me and from then on no fence would keep him in. He climbed right over just like me. He saw me unlatch the chicken house door, so from then on, he spent a lot of time in the chicken house with the chickens while I was at the hatchery. One day he went to the barn with me. I climbed the ladder to get to the loft, and he climbed half way up the ladder before he got confused and couldn’t go up or down. They are very smart, so just be careful what you teach them.
Thanks so much! I’m definitely starting to see how smart they are, so I will keep that in mind!
Beautiful ranch and photo’s. I love Donkey’s too. Getting loving is required but only after eating!