Get Your Ass to Work!
Get Your Ass to Work!
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Get Your Ass to Work! is a practical, hands-on guide to training donkeys to work—in harness and packing—to serve the needs of small farmers and homesteaders. It offers a clear and detailed program for each step of training, designed to enable you to bring an untrained donkey into the animal work force within a month or six weeks, and offers basic information on caring for your donkey.
DICK COURTEAU has been riding and working horses—and then mules and donkeys— since age eleven, when his foster father gave him his first pony, the stone-blind but spirited twelve-hand pinto mare Toots. He is pictured here with Mexicali, one of the jennies who went from so wild she couldn’t be haltered to pestering for affection, despite the tough love and restraints needed to start her hoof care.
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“A must-have for the donkey owner and would make a useful addition to the library of a mule or horse owner. —JOE MISCHKA, Editor & Publisher, Rural Heritage
Get Your Ass to Work very sensibly points out all of the great ways that donkeys can contribute on the homestead. The training advice is practical and easy
to follow, and the book can be used as a single source for beginning teamsters. I hope this book inspires a new generation of donkeys and people working together. —CHARLIE TENNESSEN, donkey teamster and contributor to Rural Heritage
“[T]his book is a font of practical how-to information for raising, training, working and thoroughly caring for all needs of the venerable donkey.” —STEPHEN LESLIE, author of The New Horse-Powered Farm and Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century
MISSION POINT PRESS
224 pages; 8 x 10 inches
illustrated with over 160 photos and drawings index; resources