I've had my 10-year-old gelded donkey for over a year, and sheep and chickens for about 2.5 months.
I currently have them fenced off into separate yet adjacent electro-net pens (the pens share a single net line on one side), donkey in one and sheep and chickens in the other. I do this mostly because when I tried to pen them together 2 month ago, donkey tried to stomp the sheep. The sheep were very little, and had been run side by side for about a week prior. The sheep are now larger, but still relatively small lambs at 3 months old.
Given that they've been adjacent for so long (2 months), is it safe to try to pen them together? The main driver for this is actually the chickens - they are in with the sheep, and the forage is getting depleted too quickly. I need a larger area for them, mostly, and I cannot afford (nor do I have the space or charger for) increasing the amount of electro-net. I should note that donkey basically ignores wild turkeys that fly in and out of then pen. Could it be he's simply accustomed to them after a year?
Thoughts? Thanx.
I currently have them fenced off into separate yet adjacent electro-net pens (the pens share a single net line on one side), donkey in one and sheep and chickens in the other. I do this mostly because when I tried to pen them together 2 month ago, donkey tried to stomp the sheep. The sheep were very little, and had been run side by side for about a week prior. The sheep are now larger, but still relatively small lambs at 3 months old.
Given that they've been adjacent for so long (2 months), is it safe to try to pen them together? The main driver for this is actually the chickens - they are in with the sheep, and the forage is getting depleted too quickly. I need a larger area for them, mostly, and I cannot afford (nor do I have the space or charger for) increasing the amount of electro-net. I should note that donkey basically ignores wild turkeys that fly in and out of then pen. Could it be he's simply accustomed to them after a year?
Thoughts? Thanx.