This is a story I wrote for a magazine out in Minnesota called In Our Neck of the Woods in the fall of 2015.Â
I have always liked donkeys, either jennies or jacks. Some people call them Mountain Canaries. Why are they called that? Some people say they sound like canaries when they bray. I have always liked to hear donkeys bray and I ve had a few jennies and a jack or two over the years.
But back about 30 years ago, you could buy donkeys (jennies-females for $25 and jacks-males for $10). And sometimes you could get a jack given to you. I always liked jennies to work in the garden, drag winter wood in, or to use to shuck corn with. Two donkeys could be called on to pull a good sled load of corn.