Charlie is the cheekiest donkey. He came to Clovelly a few days before Christmas 2004, from South Wales so he is the second youngest donkey. His owner was moving to France and wanted Charlie to have a home where he would get lots of attention.

He is a very patient and friendly donkey and loves to be tickled and scratched.When people scratch his back he makes funny faces with his lips because he loves it.

Apart from the youngsters he's the most energetic donkey and usually gets what he wants. We think he is now the Boss of the herd.

Here he is ready to go out for a walk.

Charlie has a soft fluffy coat, a lying-down mane like a horse and a twirl of fur on his shoulder.

Jake (on the left) and Jasper (the spotty donkey) are best freinds and always go around together. However Jake is much older and doesn't like to play as much as Charlie so Jasper and Charlie often play together and have become good friends.

Now Charlie often goes around with the JJs as a threesome.

 Age......13 in 2013

 Size:10.2hh (42")

 Colour: Light Grey, white face and no leg stripes, and a long mane and tail.

 Born: South Wales

Here they are - playing wrestling with Charlie's rug. NAUGHTY BOYS !!

Charlie has 'sweet itch' which means he is allergic to midge bites so in the summer he wears a rug to keep the midges off.  

We had to make a specially strong rug because they keep using it as a Judo costume !  

Charlie is very playful.

Here he is with some balls.

He likes tossing the tarpaulin too.

...getting up to mischief as usual !!

Here's Jake and Charlie investigating the weighbridge. 

It was no trouble getting those two to get on it.

If there is somewhere new to go Charlie will be there !

...or the feed room...

...and here he is trying out Bart's new toolroom.

...and after having a nice roll in the sawdust.>>>>

Out in the field in February. Peter and Noah wrestling behind him.

The little girl looks nervous but Charlie LOVES being brushed......and having lots of fuss.

He was nervous at first but he relaxed immedietly when the children started to make a fuss of him.

Here he is with
Wellington
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Charlie was fascinated by the calves in the pen by the manger.

Charlie Arriving at Clovelly

He had had a long journey from the north of South Wales

    When a new donkey comes into the herd the other donkeys always want to make friends immediately. The trouble is they could gang up on the new donkey and bully him so when Charlie arrived we shut him in his own pen overnight so that the others could get used to him being around.

Here's what happened next morning when we let Charlie out :-

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Charlie at Work

Charlie is one of our main donkey-riding donkeys so for most of the summer he gives donkey rides to children around the meadow , as long as it's not too muddy or too midgey. Here are some pictures of him at work.

The three muskaterrors ready to go

 
Charlie, Sue and Jasper

Wearing Red, Blue and White
for
Her Majesty the Queen's
Silver Jubilee
in April 2012.

Jake, Jasper and Charlie

Modelling the black numnah we won for being the best working donkeys in the South West in 2003

It's how donkeys tell each other they are friends.

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At the end of the day a nice snooze with Jasper.

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and a good 

stretch !

Here's Charlie with Kiwi at the Christmas Parelli  Games day.

They had to do some Parelli horsemanship challenges and a spotlight show.

Click here for our
Parelli Page

In September we joined the

International Horse Agility Club

so that we can take part in horse agility competitions.
It's similar to dog agility but with horse obstacles you can make yourself and, best of all,
we can compete from home using video recordings that we send via Youtube.

Click here for the Horse Agility Club

Click here for our Horse Agility page.

You can see Charlie in action in the real films we have entered for the competition. 
Go to our eeore blog at www.clovellydonkeys.blogspot.co.uk and click the links to the films.

Here's Noah and Charlie at our first live Agility training day in January. The weather was dreadful- cold, windy and wet so we put their raincoats on half way through. They did very well.

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Noah is a star at the see-saw even though it was the first time he had seen one.

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and shows Charlie how to do the big hoop..

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Charlie's trying out the see-saw..

...and thinking about the hula-hoops

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Charlie walks over the jump

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through the plastic bottles

Completely off the lead !

..and they weave through the cones together - off the lead !! Amazing !

That's Charlie at the back and Noah at the front.

See the real film by following the links on our eeore-blog at www.clovellydonkeys.blogspot.co.uk

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Here are some more pictures of Noah doing Agility at home.

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Through the L bend off the lead.

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Through the U bend without touching the poles.

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weaving through the scary objects

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Over the tarpaulin.

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.left to right:

Giffy, Sarah, Peter, Charlie.

Naughty things !!

    Here is Ryan who loves donkeys and has adopted Charlie for several years.

Thank you Ryan !