Donkeys are versatile animals and can be used for a variety of purposes: as companion animals, for light draft work, for trekking, for breeding for production purposes, for clearing meadows, undergrowths, and hard-to-reach places, for protecting sheep and goats from attacks by dogs, wolves, for assisted therapies (onotherapy), educational farms, and more.

An average donkey weighs 160 kilograms, can also load more than 50 kilograms on its back and can pull up to twice its weight. It lives about 25 to 30 years, some can reach up to 40. They love to be in company. If keeping two donkeys is a problem you could accompany him with another animal. Keeping a donkey requires minimal financial resources to meet its needs: shelter, feeding, protection, care.

For safety, children should always be accompanied by an adult inside the donkey pens. There is a tendency to treat donkeys as if they were little horses, but donkeys are different physically and emotionally. There are differences in behavior according to gender. Stallions by their nature are unpredictable, especially if there is a female in heat nearby. They are generally not suitable to be handled or ridden by children. Geldings (castrated stallions) can play rough.