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Frederick

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Dont laugh .........I need to know the name of the breed of the big donkey the French used to cross with horses to get mules for the French army . They have long coats that  hang like dreadlocks .............  I want to find a photo  but a search of  " Big French Donkey " on Google is likely to produce some very wierd  sites !!!
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[quote user="Christine Animal"]

That's what I would have suggested too Bugbear, Le Baudet du Poitou

     although it's not particularly big, unless there are some other big hairy ones.

You have them all here      http://balade-en-maraispoitevin.chez-alice.fr/htm/baudet.htm

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Christine?... Would you know if that photo was taken in St Martin lès Melle in 79 ?..... only asking as there used to be a little old chap in that village who had 2 of them in his field and as we walked passed it when we were kids, the baudets came to the fence to be fed sugar and carrots!.... I just wondered if that person's family was carrying on the breeding of these rather rare animals....

The lay out of the photo is familiar somehow.... I have somewhere a photo taken the day after my wedding (got married at home) where the whole family is in the garden of the house next door, for a big meal (another one!) and over the garden fence these 2 lovely doppy baudets looked on the noisy mad lot assembled........... sigh!!! long ago......

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Ah - I thought there was something odd.  You're getting ahead of yourself again, aren't you?  Can I not cajole you into going even further back as if in a time machine to an earlier era, rather than stealing a march on tomorrow?

Do you know Normandy donkeys (or at least the ones around here) all have a cross on their backs?

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[quote user="Dick Smith"]Am I posting in invisible ink? I post saying that it's a Poitou. About ten posts later Buggbear says it's a Poitou. Well spotted. Then Christine says - yes Bugbear, you're right.

What did I do to offend everybody, then? Or is it a reading problem?
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So you did Dick, I'm terribly sorry, I missed it.

Why do you keep saying félicitations at the bottom of your posts?

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[quote user="Cassis"]
Do you know Normandy donkeys (or at least the ones around here) all have a cross on their backs?
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It's called the cross of St André and according to legend ...............'on dit que ce serait la Sainte Vierge qui lui a donné la croix qui orne son dos pour le remercier de l'avoir porté jusqu'à Bethlehem et réchauffé l'enfant Jésus ...'

Regards

Chris

PS Our Normandie donkey, Delboy, has a cross on his back, but the virgin Mary wouldn't have stood a hope in hell of getting on, or indeed, staying on his back!!

 

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