Donkey is not a small horse with big ears

After thousands of years the donkey used as a strong, hardy and easy draft animals, which is able to bear heavy costs on long distance with minimal demands on the quantity and quality of food and water. Until recently, we we, Central, met with the donkeys on their travels to the Mediterranean to the Adriatic and the Balkans, and had to affect their smutnyma eyes, big ears smesnyma and nezavidenihodnym fate. Today in our country are beginning to behave asses, especially as domestic pets, which can be run and which can be used to zaprahu not only fun but also benefits the local farms.

Domestic Donkey, which is the word, is a descendant of the African wild ass. Was domesticated peoples living in the Nile Basin, where is the best-known subspecies nubijsky ass. Oslo Somali, which is critically endangered vyhubenim, can be seen in our zoo in Brno, Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Hodonin, Liberec and Usti nL onager is now in the wild and in the extinction of several zoos survives past 115 pieces, whose value is inestimable .

What is domestication

Ochocovani is a gradual domestication of wild animals by man, which started sometime in the period mezolitu (15 thousand to 5 thousand years BC) and is in essence to this day. Linked to the emergence of agriculture in the younger the Stone Age,because intensive production of agricultural crops allow stockpiling of feed for animals reared in the winter months. Among the earliest domesticated animals included cattle, which also brought into agriculture tensile strength and, ultimately, mrvu, the sheep and dogs in particular, was more important in the fight or hunt game.

Were, therefore, a domesticated species, which provide benefits to a man devoid of dangerous, easily acclimatised and well in captivity and more. The man had on the contrary, their animals to provide protection against adverse weather, regular care and maintenance all year round.

Donkey under Ottova dictionary naucneho

Donkey (Equus asinus L.) is known mammal kopytnaty, lichoprsty, of the family horses (Equidae);from podrodu asses (asinus; with chestnuts on the front legs and tail porostlym longer sackcloth only at the end). Donkey has a well-known figure and size, lobe length half head and a gray coat with a black longitudinal stripe in the middle of the back, which crosses the transverse, dark band on the shoulder, vezpod little lighter. Undoubtedly comes from the African wild ass, or maybe iz onagra. Best ass doing in the front and central Asia, northern and eastern Africa, southern Europe and warm America for us is an animal mrzutym, lenivym, once tvrdosijnym, but in warmer countries, eg in Egypt, is ass ready, busy , persistent and usually also uhlednejsi. In Arabia, Persia in Egypt behave asses double, one pleme is larger and statnejsi characters, smooth and silken hair, the latter is smaller and weaker.In South America live donkeys zdivoceli. Donkey has a fairly nimble senses, especially hearing, and an excellent memory. Ceases to poor forage; take gets grass, which would be our ruminants or netkli, yes i bodlacim and ostnitymi herbs. His voice is known ia. Mating period of the last days of spring or the first month of summer, after 11 months jennet born about one chick usually fairly well developed; that grow normal size already at the 2 year, full power, however, to the 3rd year of his age. Donkey is said to live 40 - 50 years. In our ass, and pulls the load wear; meat enjoyed only in the south and done parchment skin and safian. - In addition dziggetaje (t) are the ass even close relatives of the first appointed onager (wild ass, Equus onager Schreb.), The African wild ass (Equus taeniopus Heugl.).The first is a little higher than the ztepilejsi ass, my thick lips covered with long hair stetinovitymi, lobe a little shorter than the donkey and whitish gray in color, on top of the head, the sides of the neck, the lobe and ass brownish yellow, the sides of the body is the white strip of longitudinal with a narrow brown stripe in the middle. Onager is home in the wilderness, Syria, Arabia, Persia and East India. In Persia the polapenych onagruv odchovavaji nejpeknejsi and nejhbitejsi donkeys to ride. Their favorite food is slanobyly, herbs and juices with milk; bodlacim and ostnitymi plants opovrhuji. People are fishing for meat and skin. African wild ass is quite high, uhledneho stature and the hair ashy or brownish gray, vezpod lighter, the top of the back and shoulders like a dark cross, as our ass,and legs quite clear transverse dark stripes. It is home to Africa in the wilderness east of the Nile, is very shy and circumspect, but if caught young, easily faced down.

If we want to take the ass

You prefer to take two. Donkey is a creature stadovy and would be very sad. If we do not have the opportunity to get his friend the same kind, while with the goats, sheep or horses. Donkeys do not like change, so the new owner may transfer a big surprise.

For we do not need a stable breeding ass. Just buy him a wooden shed with dry tripartite floor and zavetrim to be where to hide in bad weather. Wrong bears

extreme cold, strong winds and prolonged mud. It should be vystlat shelter and its surroundings shavings,and you as often as possible with clear and faeces. Especially in the summer, the asses are suffering bodavym insects that can damage their delicate skin, especially under the eyes. Keepers therefore make asses headbands with navazanymi laces, which flies in the movement, at least from the eyes odhaneji, vykuruji them boudy doutnajicimi wisp sena or deploying to the face mask. Masks asses mind, on the contrary - protects against insects and the sun. Just need is to sundavat night.

Donkeys do not tolerate water and try to avoid it carefully. When prolonged rain occurs, their hair, legs and hooves are prone to the formation of mold and infestation by parasites. Desert origin simply nezapre.

This entails also that the donkeys do not tolerate well too rich pasture. In addition, nettles,sweet leaves and grass stained urine and faeces salvation everything, even love okusuji wood. In his homeland is often only zivili different types of dry grass and shrubs. Today, feed hay with the addition of a small kernel. Prekrmovani especially juveniles leads to irreversible damage to the skeleton and especially the slachach.

How are born ass

Heat for about asses repeated after 25 days and lasts about a week, and even after birth it is repeated in fourteen days. The main manifestation of rijici ass is vycenenymi teeth chatter, frequent urination and loud bray. Linking ass to ass is very aggressive and noisy.

Gestation lasts longer than 11 months. Ass she most comfortable lying down on the side of one chick,which immediately tries to stand on its own two feet and find a source of food.

The donkey holds more than other animals, that any error chovate¾ov education will sooner or later the consequences. Calm approach and consistency is the foundation. Even if you have a taste before the colt while petting, always to be the farmer who goes first and learn as Donkey, who determines the rules.

I donkeys must undergo basic training - for safety and breeders ass. It is better, when he was first doing the burro ohlavce indirectly - to manage ohlavce mother burro and her following. Everything must be done slowly, with calm and patience, in the form of the game. A burro can never expect to be very soon. This is to ensure that the training taught ass breeder and mutual trust and partnership.Ass grow and mature more slowly than foals every horse and should not be either mentally or physically push for excellence and hard work.

Young is gradually weaned in the first half year of his life following a two-week period is painful for the colt, ass, and the breeders. It is good to begin with shut at night, in separate kojich that allow the mother and young mutual contact, but make it impossible to Intake.

Pending a complete cessation must be an ass odcervovano once a month, then just twice a year. Roughly four months, even before weaning, the colt should be vaccinated for the first time, and suitably treated kopytka let a professional blacksmith, first at the age of one month.Then, after eight weeks.

Although the chicks asses long children sexually matured very early. For security from eight months of leave in one enclosure with young sex, even with a parent.

Raising asses therefore is no easy, cheap, or rest the matter.

H. Langerova

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