Coming to the Farm!

Meet Cupcake, Dulce and Prissy - three miniature donkeys who will soon be calling Springdelle Farm their home. Mike and I are adopting these adorable long ears tomorrow from Save Your Ass Long Ear Rescue in New Hampshire. The rescue is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of donkeys and mules. I discovered their website last year when I first started thinking about adding donkeys to our woolly menagerie. Impressed by their track record, I bookmarked the website and have checked back from time to time.

I was smitten with the pics and the decription of these three jennys (a jenny is a female donkey - a boy donkey is a jack - an "ass" can be either male or female) when I saw them way back in November. After learning how people-friendly these girls are - and with the caveat that they must also be sheep and llama friendly - we agreed to adopt them.

Tomorrow we will meet them, face to muzzle, for the first time. We're taking the horse trailer and I can't imagine that it will come home empty.

I spend this afternoon shopping for donkey accessories at the local farm supply store. They really don't need much - brushes, lead ropes, hoof pick, selenium bock & a salt lick. Tomorrow morning,I'll rearrange the barn so the long ears can have the south end of the dairy barn. They'll share a fenceline with some sheep - who I am sure will be very interested in their new barn mates.

Will be sure to post pics and an update about the ride home - but just wanted to quickly share our exciting news.

Cupcake (left) is Dulce's (right) mother. I don't think Prissy is related but she is bonded to the others and they needed to be adopted as a trio.

Comments

[Cheryl]

Oh my goodness, what a wonderful thing to do, how exciting. I'm sure everyone will get along. It certainly will be interesting to watch the goings on.
BTW, how are those pups. I'm sure they're quite big by now.
Good Luck tomorrow. I look forward to reading all about the adventure.

[Heather]

Three very lucky donkeys! I know they will love their new home and I can't wait to read more about them. :)

[Lori]

SO adorable!! They have found the right parents! Good luck! I'm sure everyone will get along nicely :)

[Geri]

Excellent! Donkeys are wonderful animals with such great personalities. I think they'll fit right in.

[lisa mcguire]

How very exciting! Congrats!! I can't wait to see/meet them. :)

[Manise]

What sweeties! Donkeys are wonderful predator deterrers. A farm one town over has had one after a coyote killed a few of their sheep. They've been safe ever since.

[Barbara]

They are TOO cute. No wonder you couldn't resist them! What lucky creatures to live with you.

[Meredith]

You are so lovely to adopt these cuties. Can't wait to see how they adapt.
Have a safe journey.
Meredith

[Sue]

They couldn't go to a better home!

[Peggy]

Congrats. To all of you! esp. To the lucky little asses. Welcome home.