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Little River, TX | A jack can service 30 to 50 jennies? We sure do not need then on a one to one ratio.
My friends tell me a jenny is good to keep predictors out of the sheep and or goat flocks, as long as she does not have a colt of her own. She will loose interest in the goats and sheep when she her won to direct her mothering instincts toward.
They tell me a jack secondary job that is pre wired in him is to make sure the colts will be able to survive predictors. They do this by being on their feet and ready to run. A sheep at this stage has no odors and is expected to lay in a ball so the predictors will walk right past them. Our jack wants the sheep to be up on its feet and keeps lifting them with his mouth. A lamb does not survive this treatment very well.
I am sure there are more involved answers to the donkey as a guard animal but what I know I just stated and that is simple enough for an ignorant hay farmer to comprehend.  | |
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Sheep and Goat Farming Again AND herding dogs?
