It was a very long night. After basically no sleep, the jennet was still refusing to have anything to do with her foal. I also did not have the reflexes to stay out of her way, so at 6 AM I decided to try to foster the foal on another jennet that foaled two days ago. It takes several days for the donkey bonding to be complete. The other jennet, Red Hot Mama, is a heavy milker and a very gentle jennet, and has had several foals before. She was confused, but tolerated the new foal along with hers. It took several hours, but by 1 PM, she was accepting nursing by the new foal without my having to be there petting her and feeding her cookies while she let him nurse. It helps that the new foal is very persistent about going to nurse, he was very hungry. I think he was born around 10 PM last night, and he definitely had not been getting the right amount to eat all that time. So now that she is nursing two, she will have to be on very rich rations for the next couple months. She is getting alfalfa, for the calcium, along with lots of extra grain, and I will talk to my vet about how to feed her. The nursing takes a lot out of the jennets as the foals put on 80% of their growth in their first year. You can watch them pack on the pounds daily!