For the preceding three weeks , I ’ve been blogging fun poppycock aboutdonkeys , but here ’s a serious topic . Lots of donkeys need good homes , and you couldadopt oneif you care .
There are two good ways to adopt a donkey : from anorganization that rescue undesirable donkeysor from the Bureau of Land Management’sNational Wild Horse and Burro Program . Burrois Spanish for donkey ; donkeys and burros are the same thing .
The BLM says that as of February 29 , 2012 , there were 5,841 wild burro living on BLM - carry off rangelands in Arizona , California , Nevada , Oregon and Utah . ( There are 3,194 in risky domestic ass in Arizona alone ) . They say that ’s right smart too many for the kitchen range to substantiate , so the BLM captures hundred of unwarranted burros each year . There are also many burros in BLM holding pen in other states . All of them want in effect homes .
raging burro are about 44 inch tall measured at their withers ( that ’s the point where their necks link their shoulders ) , and they weigh about 500 pound . Although they ’re idle animals , most wild burro naturalise unusually easily , specially if their trainer already knows something about sawhorse and donkeys . To espouse burros from the BLM you must :
Burros involve an envelopment at least 4½ feet high and powerfully build using poles , tube or planks of a minimum 1½ inch thickness and without grave protrusions . burry wire , large - engagement woven conducting wire and electric fences ca n’t be used . small-scale - internet woven wire fencing material is satisfactory with the addition of at least two boards the domestic ass can plainly see : one on the top and one halfway down the fence .
The burro you adopt will need a shelter . It has to be at least a two - sided structure with a roof and be well - drained , adequately give vent and accessible to the burro at all prison term . Tarps ca n’t be used as a cap or side .
You ’ll have to lodge an program to adopt hazardous burros . Download one at the National Wild Horse and Burro Program website . You may adopt four wild burro in a 12 - month period , sometimes more if you could prove you have the right accommodation to brook them . The minimum monetary value to take on a burro is $ 125 , or $ 250 for a jenny with her give suck foal . In some fount , adoption heart and soul and adoption events habituate militant bidding to launch the acceptation fee , but these still average out about $ 125 per burro .
The BLM vaccinates , deworms and freeze brands all of the crazy burro it offers for espousal and allow adopters with a book of each dramatise animal ’s aesculapian account , including a negative Coggins test .
you may choose burro at hold centers or atadoption eventsheld throughout the United States .
To add a wild burro or two or more to your hobby farm family , inspect the National Wild Horse and Burro Program website or call 866 - 4MUSTANGS for more information .
