For the past three weeks, I've been blogging fun stuff about donkeys, but here's a serious topic. Lots of donkeys need good homes, and you could adopt one if you like.
Donkeys are famous! At least some of them are. Here are some noteworthy donkeys you might or might not have heard of. If you can think of others, please leave a comment. Our donkey, Ishtar, wants to know!
I've been thinking about the many things I've blogged about, and I haven't talked much about donkeys! Oh, I blogged about donkeys as livestock guardians, but not about everyday donkey stuff or the wild and wacky things Mom learned about donkeys when writing The Donkey Companion (Storey Publishing, 2008).
This blog is for Abigail, who wanted to know more about having lambs. I said I'd blog about it when our next lamb arrived, and he's here!
This blog is for Kendra, who asked for more information about llamas and alpacas and for the rest of you who might want some of your own. You can adopt your llamas and alpacas.
Last week, we talked about where llamas and alpacas came from. According to the International Lama Registry there are 163,131 llamas in the United States and the Alpaca Registry says there are 167,802 alpacas, too. Lamas are popular nowadays!
Do you have llamas or alpacas on your farm? We do! Our llama is a pretty, spotted male named Bandit. He likes horses and lives with our granny Standardbred, Maire. They are good friends.
We have new baby goats at our farm! Their names are Doughnut Jimmy and Esme, and they are bottle babies.
Martok the goat explains why some goats have their horns removed and how it works.
Thank you for asking me to write more about goats. It's my favorite topic!
Uzzi and I helped Mom research a book she wrote called The Backyard Goat: An Introductory Guide to Keeping Productive Pet Goats (Storey Publishing, 2011), and these are some of the cool things we learned.
Martok explains the dangers of these two diseases in pig herds.
