JACKS - A SPECIAL KIND OF DONKEY (pg 2)
below is an assortment
of stories we have heard about jacks - regarding their
at times completely
unexpected transfomation from wonderful, docile pet to
a vicious, biting,
killing attack monster.
all the stories
are true. these things did happen.
they happened
to people who least expected them - people who loved their donkey.
Jim Ensten, Ohio I sold a very handsome little jack,
Brisbane ( Brizzer ) to June C..... from Virginia, a very experienced horsewoman
and a breeder of Exmoor ponies. She had him for almost two years..
The thread to all the stories is, the
incidences come as a complete surprise to the owner..
********************************** Kathy Savage means with malice aforethought. When they savage they intend to kill, not mame and they will go for the neck. Jacks are not for everyone. They are not like a stallion who could be bullied into submission. Here's an example:
This story has
a double sad ending as the next day the lady's husband shot the
********************************* Sandra Connely,The Donkey Store (.......)even with Paycheck, we are very careful and always respect his masculine tendencies. We have had 15 hand mammoth jacks make pretzels out of heavy pipe corrals. We had one large standard jack that had killed a saddle horse before we owned him. One large jack put some serious teeth marks on a young goat that slipped under his fence and invaded his territory. And one standard jack had made a routine of killing javelinas in his pasture before we got him. Do we respect them? You bet. Would we keep a jack because they are more active and energetic? No. The only reason I can see for keeping a jack entire is if they are breeding quality and going to be used for that purpose and owned by people that are experienced and understand the responsibilities of maintaining a breeding animal. There are too many jacks that are not breeding quality that wind up being used for that purpose ************************** Subj: jack attack
One more jack
story.
He had brought home an appaloosa mare and was taking the jack to the breeding pen to breed her when the jack got excited and bit down on his right shoulder and refused to let go. He was by himself and had a heck of a time because he had just broken some ribs on the left in a 4 wheeler accident and couldn't even hit the jack with his left hand. He ended up biting
the jack's lips and got him off of him. The rest of the breeding
proceeded smoothly.
It can happen
*********************************** Leslie, Shady
Lane Farm
My husband and I have had Quarterhorse, Belgian, Percheron, Haflinger, Large Standard and Mammoth breeding programs over the years and the majority of our studs were loveable, sweet and easy to handle until BREEDING SEASON!!! Then they turned
into entirely diffent animals. Fortunately, we raised most of our
studs and spent a lot of time on ground manners and breeding manners and
almost always hand bred.
But the scaredest I ever was when we took our mammoth Shady Lane Pistol Pete out of his enclosure and approached the breeding area for his first time. He went ballistic and I thought I was a gonner. Even with a stud chain and breeding muzzle he became so aggressive and threatening that he was retired from fatherhood after one foal and was gelded. He now is my most favorite equine on the place and has regained his lovable reputation. (......) Our vet was personally attacked and injured by a jack and he has related many stories of jack/stallion attacks. As we too are now just Mom and Pop breeders, we always geld the jacks before selling them. They are much more likely to stay at their new home. Leslie ******************************** |
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