Donkey farm
Take a look at this donkey farm with cubs a couple hours old. Are not they irresistible? I've never seen such spoiled donkeys.
This is one of the biggest donkey farm in Europe, and it is located in The Special Nature Reserve Zasavica.
Zasavica is situated in the South-East Europe, in the Republic of Serbia, on the territory of South Voivodina and North Macva, east of the Drina River and south of the Sava River.
About Donkeys
Balkan Donkey
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Equus
Subspecies: Asinus
The Balkan donkey is a domestic animal found wordwide. It descends from African donkey (Equus asinus), whereas the Asian donkey (Equus homionus) has never been domesticated.
The Balkan donkey is an autochtonous primitive species. The body weight of the grown-up males reaches 250kg, whilst the females weigh up to 200kg. The height of the neck with males amounts approximately 100cm, females amounting to 95cm. The colour of skin may be grey, brown, dark- grey and reddish- brown. As regards feeding, it is not very demanding since it is satisfied with a small amount of bad and bulky food , whereas it can work for hours. It is widespread in the mountainous regions of Serbia and Montenegro.
Symbolic and Mythological Connotations
In the fables and fairy tales a donkey is a stubborn, and very often stupid animal. Therefore, the word donkey is at present used in the pejorative sense. In the allegory about the Buridan’s donkey, a donkey dies of hunger, because he could not decide between the two equally good haystacks to eat.
In the regions of South Africa and Mesopotamia donkeys had been worshipped as deities.
Images by @chelsy!
Cool, what´s the purpose of growing them? Maybe you could add some further details, great post.
Upvoted, please do the same with one of my posts. All the best!
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Thanks! The donkey’s milk is very healthy, also they have a lot different products like The soap made of donkey’s milk, The liqueur of donkey’s milk, Facial cream made of the donkey’s milk .... And the most important they are beautiful!
I get it, great info, good to hear they don´t end up on a barbecue :)
Oh no, they are pets!