That's the collective name for donkeys.
On Bank Holiday Monday we went donkey shopping. We made the deal and said we would get the loan of a cattle box and collect our new equine pals. Two lady donkeys and a man donkey in total.
I said to man I will leave a fifty Euros deposit for my bond that we were not 'tyre kickers' or time wasters and would return soon. He refused the deposit because he said if we don't return he would have to keep the donkeys for a year and a day.🤔
Number one son collected them the other night.
We had spent a good few hours buying fence posts, knocking them in and fixing insulators and electric fence horse tape around the edge of the field. We also plumbed a water trough and fitted a ballcock and it fills itself automatically.
Do you remember that nineteen eighties channel programme 'Scully'? It was about a Liverpool lad who said he wanted to go on his holidays to the Donkey Islands off Scotland. He was referring to the Shetland islands.
Any road that's three more four legged mower additions to the smallholding.
Do you have donkeys? They can live to the grand old age of thirty and they are pregnant for eleven months.
What's a Blackpool donkey get for it's dinner? Half an hour!
What do you call a three legged donkey? A wonky!
The wife wanted a fur coat for Christmas so I bought her a donkey jacket!
I'm here all week.😊
Oh, they are very cute.
ReplyDeleteThanks JayCee. Organic four hoof powered field mowers.
ReplyDeleteI think youve got a menagerie. Goats, donkeys, dog and cat. Love that you didn't just buy one donkey or one goat. Hope they all get on together, and with you
ReplyDeleteHi Linda. The goats and donkeys get on fine. They will hopefully keep the grass down and have young.
DeleteI believe a male donkey is called a jack and a lady donkey is called a jenny. What did your jack do wrong to be given not one but two wives? Poor lad.
ReplyDeleteHe says he hope they don't buy an Hoover for the stable. One of the female donkeys said: "hee haw to mind his own business."
DeleteDon't be daft Dave! How could a donkey hold a Hoover with hooves instead of hands? And how could they plug it in?
DeleteThey would Earth it with their Hoofers! Or maybe Jenny will put on her horse coat like Norah batty in her house coat and use a Ewbank or a house brush and shovel?
DeleteGoats and now donkeys. Lovely to have animals around to care for. Great additions to your smallholding Dave.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rachel. Great characters and fym providers in Winter.
DeleteF loves donkeys. I, the Tigger reserve judgment. F's Mum's family went to NZ from northern Irelandand their family name is derived from being donkey (or ass in their case) herders/drovers. It might explain F's love of 'em - do you think it can be DNA programmed?
ReplyDeleteYou're the clever cat Tigger. They are very intelligent creatures and not keen on the Irish climate with so much rain. They and the goats ancestors originate from Asia.
DeleteDonkeys. Goats. Pigs. You need chickens and a milk cow.
ReplyDeleteWatch here for the post about chicks Debby.
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