Lonnie and Ben, were much more sensible. After the initial nose sniffing and checking out the new guys, they left the others to their disputes and headed off to the new dirt area we have provided and made the most of having plenty of room to have a good roll, get dirty, and go for a canter. Two happy boys!

Chloe, who was already in the paddock, behaved like a real diva when Hercules joined her! She insisted that she was the boss in the paddock and decided that Hercules needed to know this. Ears back and pulling a face at him, she was adamant he would learn his place in the 'pecking order'!! This worked for a few weeks until all the other donkeys got bored with her behaviour and decided to ignore her!

Hard to believe but Herc, as we call him, will be 7 years old on June 6th this year. Believe it or not he has grown up a tiny little bit but there is still a long way to go! He still loves to run off with things – usually the head collar you want to catch him with. Although he is vey good at picking up rakes and brooms we still haven’t managed to persuade him to use them to help us clean up!

Just like Ben, Lonnie always gives the impression that he never does anything he shouldn’t. It’s always the quiet ones isn’t it? It’s little things like finding the feed room door open in the morning (more than once) which means the staff get blamed for not shutting the door! We’ve got a feeling he might be working with Beau on this as they both stand there with that ‘It wasn’t me’ look on their faces.