We have produced a Donkey Care Handbook and a number of fact sheets to answer every question in all areas of donkey care, as well as providing training courses for people who are planning to own or to rehome a pair of donkeys.
To provide the best welfare for your fit, healthy donkeys you need to provide the following:
- Companionship, high fibre diet, 24 hour access to shelter, restricted grazing, training and daily handling, mental stimulation, environmental enrichment, daily grooming and health checks, regular veterinary care, regular feet care, regular dental care, illness prevention measures, daily stable management, pasture management and individual care
- Young and elderly donkeys, or those with veterinary conditions, may have additional needs and differing management practices.
Information for donkey owners
We have a wide range of information to help donkey owners keep their animals fit and well.
- Buying a donkey
- Care of donkeys in extreme heat
- Care of donkeys through winter
- Care of the orphan foal
- Colic in donkeys
- Costs of owning and keeping donkeys
- Donkey care calendar
- Donkey dental care
- Donkey foaling
- Donkey grooming and clipping
- Donkey hoof care
- Donkey stallions, mares and geldings
- Endocrine disorders in donkeys
- Environment enrichment
- Equine Influenza in donkeys
- Euthanasia and dealing with death
- Feeding donkeys
- Gastric ulcers in donkeys
- Hyperlipaemia in donkeys
- Keeping donkeys on small pastures
- Laminitis in donkeys
- Lice control in donkeys
- Monitoring your donkey's weight
- Monitoring your donkey's quality of life
- Poisonous plants and trees
- Protecting donkeys from insects
- Ragwort
- Respiratory disease in donkeys
- Safe trees and shrubs for donkeys
- Sarcoids in donkeys
- Stable measurement guide
- Sycamore-related atypical myopathy
- Tetanus in donkeys
- Tasty tempters for donkeys
- Transporting donkeys
- Treating your donkey's wounds
- Understanding donkey characteristics
- Understanding donkey behaviour
- Worming your donkey