Sam Potter

Yeah sadly going around the pasture just isnt an option and Id rather not hurt the poor guy. The people who own him have a combination of poor financial support and bad financial decisions with less then legal hobbies. So unless I offer to pay for the neutering  I dont think they are willing to put money into him for a vet to visit or really much of anything. My husbands boss actually paid for the fencing after they tried to just keep him in with orange plastic snow fence in there 100ft by 100ft yard and he kept escaping into the highway. And another neighbor gets him hay and feeds him. They got the donkey for free after there friend the original owner went to prison for throwing gas on his wife and starting her on fire then running thru the ton naked.  I'm not sure the people who own him now are much more stable. So Im not willing to go have a serious talk about consequences for there donkeys actions. My compost pile isnt big enough to handle that much shit and I dont think it would be good for the soil. Keeping the peace is key. The town talk is they are behind on house payments and are known for just leaving the county for a few years then coming back once everything's cooled down.  Its unlikely they will bring the donkey with. As the local town homesteaders its likely he will go to us for safe keeping. Our town only has 9 houses so there isnt many other options besides call the sheriff to put him down if he abandoned. The older couples here love him but cant care for him. Hes the towns local mascot at this point despite his owners reputation.

Sorry this donkey has more drama then I do. I feel like he needs therapy!

But being big, try offering him something cool to check out and break up the monotony like a ball,  try offering the treat so its away from me and keep working with him outside the fence are all options I will happily try out. He lets me brush him and love on him when I'm outside the fence no issues. Just once I'm in he gets uppity.  

I have a feeling your spot on. I also worry I'm going to end up owning said donkey with the way the situation is.
I haven't had time to look at his ears to much when he rears as Im normally worried about his feet and bulk coming at me. Il check the ears. Il feel better if hes just trying to play and not angry with me.

I'm discovering most livestock are just weird shaped puppies lately! I bribe him with some handfuls of grass but maybe a apple chunk or two would be better. I am worried about him getting pushy trying to get more while I'm halfway thru the pen....

I'm currently renting land from my husbands boss to pasture my pigs.  To get access to the pasture I use thou I need to pass thru a dry lot pasture that houses a neighbors miniature donkey. They are not very attentive owners so this donkey is completely intact and not at all handled with his halter always on cause they cant catch him to put it on otherwise. He is fed and watered so its not abuse. Just I dont think they know anything about donkeys and thought he would be sweet and cuddly. He is NOT sweet and cuddly. He is a bored and angry ball of lonely and untrained donkey fluff stuffed with pent up hormones! I honestly wouldn't have the time to care if I didn't have to pass thru his space. Of course he runs up and waits for me at the gate when ever I come up. Then will act friendly until he isn't then he rears up and trys to bite me and wont leave my space. I have limited experience with well trained happy horses and none with untrained angry donkeys. Any ideas on how to maybe just train him enough to stop trying to fight me without causing any more behavioral problems for the donkey or me.  Is it something Im doing? Or is he just territorial with nothing to do so Im the coolest punching bag.

And yes I'm looking into another gate to avoid this altogether but its going to require a bridge or access road and culvert to do so and I'm not sure its worth it on property I don't own.

Could try adding some tall familiar plants like sunflowers. They don't like hitting them with lawn mowers and you can use them for mulch and stakes! Plus they look pretty.

I love my solid steel fiskers shovel and I have a feeling there solid spade digger is probably pretty tough and affordable. Our soil is to hard so any kind of digging spade isnt gonna hold up sadly to the horsepower I want to apply. I grew up with these solid steel style tools and now I break all of the handles off of the wooden handled tools cause I'm used to being able to just use the shovel without having to check if I'm going to break it cause I took a full scoop of dirt. I have managed to break my shovel in our hard as rock heavy clay soil. But the bonus is then we welded it together and reinforced it! Yes my shovel weighs at least 15lbs now but we have a rack with everyone's favorite shovel. (There even all named, Mines called Groundbreaker) So nobody has to use my heavy shovel but I still get my preferred shovel!

Iv never kept them in before when moving a established hive. We moved our hives 20 miles when we moved out of town and just moved them at night. We didn't have any issues with losing any as far as I could tell. They are smart little bugs and seemed to treat the relocation like a swarm. When Iv moved a hive across the property they will return to there old spot but they are not loaded down with pollen like they are trying to return. They are coming empty and ready to collect stuff. My theory is they are either using the old hive location as a land mark or looking to see if there's any honey left to raid from there old spot. If youv ever had a hive decide to leave a spot on there own, they will return to move all there honey and pollen to there new place if you don't interfere. At least these are my experiences.  Iv only had bees for 6 years now and your milage may vary.

Deadnettle and Creeping Charlie might be good. They bloom about the same time and my bees love them.

So we solved the problem and didn't need to go solar. Yet. I think I'm going to try that set up you describe for when we end up needing one. We are using the parmak 5. It shoots about 6 joules for 50 miles. It is way over sized for the 100ft by 100ft paddocks we are currently doing but we wanted to make sure that if we end up expanding itl still work. I talked to a cattle farmer who deals with this stuff and he told us to just run a string of hot wire from the energizer out to where we need it. So I ran it the 1000 feet out to where we need it. I trenched a bit of it under ground for the trucks to still go over by attaching the hot wire to a insulated house wire left over from a remodel. Its only under the surface by like 4 inches but it should be alright. Right? And since we are renting the land I didnt want to try a gate and depend on strangers to close it for the power to make it out to the paddocks. I don't know if you've ever experienced having to herd 20 pigs back to where there supposed to be but it isn't fun. So far its working!

Like 80% of plastic has been removed from our kitchen. There's little things you never think of thou. What I thought was paper tea bags have been our problem. Turns out they mix plastic into the paper tea bags so they don't disintegrate into your hot tea water, some paper bags as well do this now. So we switched to bulk tea from a small local online tea store that Iv gotten to vend next to at a few events and like. (Shout out to Under The Mountain Apothecary) But my son didnt like the added steps nor did he want to learn how to use a tea strainer. Until I mentioned the plastic in the tea bag thing.(He has like 3 mugs a day) Im not sure wev ever mentioned the problem of micro plastics to him but he just nodded sagely and grumbled about god damn micro plastics invading his brain. So I asked him where he had learned about them. His friends, online and its now included in joke insults apparently. He also seems to know way more about the dangers of micro plastics the I do. So my 10 year old schooled me in the ickyness of plastic and then I schooled him in the art of a tea strainer. Win-Win situation.