The Randy Donkey

I swear this is true. My neighbour up the hill has a donkey - Choco (he is brown). Around here donkeys are supposed to eat scotch thistle (they don't) and they are meant to chase off dingos (debatable).

Anyway I was over in my paddock early in the morning before work watering the orchard when I noticed one of my neighbour's cows out and down in another neighbour's place. I could see blood dripping from her ear and figured she cut it getting through the barb wire fence. Having to go to work rather than be late putting his cow back I rang Ken and let him know she was out.

That afternoon when I got home he couldn't wait to tell me the story, they even videoed it on their phones. They had rounded up the cow and put back into her own paddock and while he was fixing the fence another two cows charged through the some hole. "Bloody hell",  he said and rounded those two up.  While again starting to fix the fence he heard a commotion up the paddock and finally understood what was happening. You see Ken's old bull had got foot rot and been taken to the the meat works a few months back but unfortunately that does not stop the cows coming into season. So the donkey, good old Choco,  thought he wold help out. But Choco is quite short and Ken's murray grey cows a bit tall so they just kept walking off. Choco thought in frustration it would work better if he held the cows by the ear and tried to mount them.  That certainly explained why the cows were running through the fence and they all had bleeding ears.

Choco was moved and Ken brought a mate for him, now they are all back and happily living together again  and their ears have healed over.

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