This comes from their evolving in an extremely arid desert environment. They have an innate drive to find and utilize every scrap of food that they possibly can AND use it extremely efficiently.
I am not surprised that your donkeys are eating grain out of cow feces. But I have noticed them eating the cow poop that has grain in it! Could this contribute to them continuing to gain weight? They do not have access to the grain, nor do they get any. They are currently with two cows who are receiving grain. Now I'm learning that I need to limit the amount of protein and sugar that they take in. But when they first arrived the grass was too lush for them and they begin gaining weight. Now being winter all the grasses are dormant. Hi! I recently came into ownership of two, four-year-old donkeys.So we have used wheat straw for years and it works fine. Barley straw is the best, but rare in most areas. I do not know what part of the country your are in, but if baled corn stalks are available, straw probably is too. Donkeys do well on a diet of straw, with a little hay, and appropriate trace mineral supplements. You want the long stem stuff that they use for bedding for horses. Another option would be to feed wheat straw, which is available in most parts of the country and usually half the price of hay. So, you would have to remain vigilant that you do not overfeed your donkey, again, because of the chronic laminitis. Also, although corn stalks generally have lower digestible energy than most hays, they do have more calories than straw. It would be necessary to scrupulously pick out any before feeding it to your donkey, especially if he is foundered. The only problem is how much actual corn grain is left in the bales with the dried stalks.
In Mexico donkeys live on dried corn stalks.
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