Balade à dos d'ânes

Sons and grandsons of farmers in the Monts du Lyonnais, as a teenager, I worked a lot with my grandfather, especially with draft horses. Mechanics has never been my passion. A little over 20 years ago, following a professional transfer, I arrived in Haute-Loire. I arrived in Yssingeaux, where I found a house with a big meadow, the children were small, I said to myself, I am going to buy a donkey or a pony. Chance was a donkey, I wanted to apply my knowledge, from horses to donkeys, but the first setbacks quickly made me understand the enormous difference. So I joined the BRAIRE association (Farnay in the Loire). There, the elders trained me. The enormous difference: a horse stands up, a donkey learns. The passion which has become a much more virulent virus than covid and there is no vaccine, gave me the idea of ​​creating the structure of the donkeys of the juices, then I settled at the Moulin de St Jeures where I offer hikes to the day or over several days in a loop, but also on the mythical paths (St Régis on horseback between the Ardèche and the Haute-Loire, the Stevenson les Cévennes and my favorite the Santiago de Compostela and the magnificent plateaus of Aubrac .

The donkey is an animal that thinks all the time, unlike the horse which panics, you educate a donkey, you educate a dog and you train a horse. The donkey is like a teenager all his life, he tests his master, he is endearing, but cunning, an ideal traveling companion, but you need an iron fist in a velvet glove. At home, it is an eco-friendly mower, ideal for maintaining small plots, it eats thistles, brambles etc... be careful, they cut their teeth on the wooden stakes and their plank shelters etc... they gnaw just like a goat !!! Originally from desert countries, it drinks little and does not fear the heat, but does not like humidity and wind.

New: any hike in Compostela of 5 days or more departing from Saint Jeures benefits from a discount of €70 on the stay/donkey…