I heard from a friend that donkeys have brothers and sisters, but has anyone ever heard of them being twins?
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Twins are very rare in donkeys, but there's a pair of twins called Bill and Ben at the Sanctuary. It's so difficult to tell them apart!
I have actually met Bill and Ben when I went to take their picture for the press office. They are very attractive donkeys and completely identical, the only way to tell them apart is that one has a slightly darker nose! They are really friendly though and love to play. I would recommend anyone that comes to visit the Sanctuary to pay a special visit to Bill and Ben, they will definitely come to the gate to say Hello!
Look at Lonegan and Donegan's web site www.littleloneganslegs.com. These are twins born March this year in Western Australia, and are now famous world wide.
I have heard of several sets of twins but only know of two occassions when they have both survived (three now I have heard about Bill and Ben). The last ones that I saw were in Durham five years ago and were bred by a very good friend of mine Tony Price. They were gorgeous but not a bit a like. The filly was much larger than her colt brother and a different colour.
I own a set of donkey twins in Ayrshire in Scotland. They are non-identical, different sexes and different colours. The mother gave birth by herself outside, we didn't even know she was going to have twins. We had to hand rear the jack every two hours for the whole summer.
Does anyone else know of any other donkey twins? My twins are miniatures because they are so small. Anyone else know of miniature donkey twins apart from the ones in Australia? Sorry about all the questions.
When I first posted my comments about Donkey Twins I said that I had only ever seen one set which were born in County Durham. No sooner had I placed this on the website than I went to Northern Ireland and saw twin donkey fillies at the home of my friend Martin Robinson. They were born at Christmas 2006 and caused a blaze of publicity in the area. When I visited him this year just twelve months later he took me to see yet another set of twins that had been born at his father in law's farm. The second set of twins were in no way related to the first set.
On Friday October 24, donkey twins were born at the Aide Aux Anes sanctuary in France. It was a difficult situation because the placenta came out first and after that everything stopped strangely enough. With our help mother Diane gave birth to first a female called "Ushi" and six minutes later to a male called "Udane". After three days Udane became very ill. In less than a week he had seen four (different) vets. Now he is doing better every day, but we keep a keen eye on him, as we know from experience just how fragile foals are...