Understanding Donkey Temperament

And what we're here to talk to you about today is Tammy. Tammy is our guard donkey. We're going to walk up here and visit with Tammy and I'm going to show you what she's all about and what a guard donkey is because a lot of people ask me questions about Tammy. You can see the calves running around back here. This is Tammy. You can barely see her. She's kind of camouflaged into the uh landscape right here. But Tammy is a guard donkey. What Tammy does is protects the calves. So, I don't know whether you guys know it or not, but donkeys don't like dogs and they don't like coyotes and they don't like foxes. They don't like the predators of our baby calves. So, what Tammy does, her sole purpose in life is to protect that baby right there. That's what she does. She's out here in the pasture. Isn't that a cutie? She's out here in the pasture and she's protecting the babies. There are a few things you need to know about a guard donkey like Tammy. Tammy is not very friendly. If I walk up to Tammy, she's going to run away, but she is here to protect these baby calves from any kind of predator. If you get a donkey and you think you're going to have a guard donkey magically appear out of just a regular donkey, you may be sadly mistaken. So, be sure if you do have a donkey that it was raised with cattle. So Tammy was born in a cow pasture with cows. Her mama was a guard donkey. She's a guard donkey. So you need to make sure if you have goats, you want to use a guard donkey with goats. Make sure that they're tolerant of goats. Okay. The hind legs on this