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Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue is a 501(c)(3) [1] nonprofit donkey rescue organization based in San Angelo, Texas. It is the largest donkey rescue organization in the United States with 24 sanctuaries and 26 adoption centers nationwide. It shelters around 3,000 donkeys, providing food, water, medical care, gentling, training, and adoption services.
Redwings provides a safe home for rescued horses, ponies, donkeys and mules who have been neglected and ill-treated, such as those rescued from Spindles Farm in 2008, the largest case of equine animal cruelty ever seen in the UK at the time. In October 2005 Redwings merged with the Ada Cole Memorial Stables in Essex.
The American Mammoth Jackstock is a breed of North American donkey, descended from large donkeys imported to the United States from about 1785. George Washington, with Henry Clay and others, bred for an ass that could be used to produce strong work mules. Washington was offering his jacks for stud service by 1788.
A miniature donkey and a standard donkey, mother and daughter. North American donkeys constitute approximately 0.1% of the worldwide donkey population. [1] [a] Donkeys were first transported from Europe to the New World in the fifteenth century during the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus, [2]: 179 and subsequently spread south and west into the lands that would become México. [3]
The organization, which was set up in 2000, runs a 1.5-hectare (4-acre) donkey sanctuary near the Israeli town of Netanya. At the beginning of 2017, Safe Haven was home to more than 230 donkeys. Safe Haven also runs a programme of free veterinary clinics for working donkeys, mules and horses in the Palestinian Territories. The team regularly ...
The Baudet du Poitou, also called the Poitevin or Poitou donkey, is a French breed of donkey. It is one of the largest breeds, and jacks (donkey stallions) were bred to mares of the Poitevin horse breed to produce Poitevin mules, which were formerly in worldwide demand for agricultural and other work.
English: Donkeys for sale at the Wednesday's weekly market in Boubon, in Niger (Karma commune, Kollo department, Tillabéri region). Français : Vente des ânes au marché hebdomadaire du mercredi à Boubon, au Niger (commune de Karma, département de Kollo, région de Tillabéri).
The Norman donkey, French: Âne Normand, is a breed of domestic donkey from Normandy, in north-west France. It is found mainly in the present-day Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy regions, and is also present in Brittany and the Pays de Loire. It is the smallest of the seven recognised French donkey breeds. [4]