Porscha is a lovely dark jennet sired by Mr. Perlino. This is an uncommon ivory line in Texas. We are thrilled to be adding her as well as her dark NLP jennet foal, FL Poker Alice, to our little herd. Thanks to Frontier Legends for making it possible for us to bring Porscha into our ivory program. Porscha is bred to Casper for a May foal!
Patches is a very nice 32.5" jennet sired by Double N Texas Awsome. She has great conformation as well as a drafty build. Patches foaled a fantastic little gray jack in August 2008. She will be bred again in the spring of 2009....still not decided who we will breed her to.
Sera is a very nice 33 1/2" two year old jennet. She is the daughter of Corinda on of our two original jennets. Sera is very closely related to Arrow Creek Harry Houdini, who has sired several very wooly donkeys, two of which were record high sellers at the Great American Donkey Sale. We have decided to retain Sera to breed to Crossfire next year. She is very correct and nicely proportioned. We are hoping she will pass on her father's dark genetics when paired with our black jack.
Kate is a 33 1/2 inch very dark brown jennet with excellent conformation. She has browns and blacks in her pedigree and is currently being bred to our black jack, Crossfire.
Babbs is a beautiful Ivory jennet that we were lucky to add to our herd this year. She has the sweetest personality and we hope that she passes it on to her foals. Babbs is currently being bred to Cloud Nine for and ivory foal in 2009.
Ginger is a very nice ivory carrier who came to us with her half-sister, Babbs. Her mother is an untraced Pieratt's ivory jennet, but her father traces back to Danby and Belleau stock. He is nice and small and we are hoping that Ginger will pass on these small genetics on to ivory foals. Ginger had some complications during delivery and we lost her 2008 foal, therefore we decided to give her some time off....she may be bred sometime in 2009 to one of our ivory jacks.
Misty is a nice light gray roan jennet that may be an ivory carrier. Her father, ITF Blackstrap, has sired ivory so we are hoping he has passed the gene on to Misty. She is pretty chubby at this time, but she has had a layoff for a couple of years and we are hoping this foal coming in November will help pull some of the extra weight off. Misty is currently bred to Casper, so we will keep our fingers crossed for an ivory foal!
Nike is a really nice ivory carrier with an unusual thin blaze, a swoosh as her breeder Russ Hauenstein put it (hence the name). She is gray with masked spotting factor and it looks like she will remain quite small. Nike will likely begin her breeding career in 2010. We can't wait to see what this little jewel will produce...spots?...ivory?...we will have to be patient and wait to see!
Carmella is a very nice ivory carrier sired by Sheloy's C.J. and out of an ivory jennet. We are very pleased with this addition to our ivory carrier herd. Carmella will likely be bred for the first time in 2009.
Tinkerbelle is a wonderful ivory carrier that came to us from Furball Acres in South Carolina. She is a Lil Longears Casper daughter and built just the way we like them, nice proportions and round butt! We can't wait to see what she produces in the future!
Izzy is our first Casper daughter and she is lovely in every way. We are looking forward to her first pairing in 2009 to Cloud Nine.
Alice is named for Alice Ivers (aka Poker Alice), a frontier woman who was famous in the Black Hills for her poker skills. This little girl tricked everyone into thinking she was a boy when she was born, hence the name. Alice is sired by Short Assets Starfire, a champion in the show ring. We may try her in the showring ourselves before adding her to our breeding program. Alice's grandfather is Mr. Perlino, so we are hoping she carriers the ivory gene herself.