We've been offered a few old run-out hay fields to rejuvenate, to grow hay for our 2 donkeys. We are pretty

new to these creatures (had them since 2 years) and to hay farming. Timothy hay and barley straw are the two feeds most often recommended for donkeys. Yesterday we walked the first hay field with a farm advisor and took soil samples (through 2' of snow and ice!). He strongly recommended growing fescue instead of timothy. I came home, sat down at the computer and went down the rabbit hole that is Fescue and endophytes. The advisor knew horses but not donkeys; I told him their dietary requirements were very different. I'm confused. We are in Nova Scotia.