MiMiniature Donkey Foals of 2017
Elms Farm Miniature Donkeys

Brown & White Spotted Jennet
Birth: May 29, 2017
MDR #pending

Sire:  The Elms Orion, 33" Dark Brown and White Spotted Wooly
     Grand Sire:   MGF Musketeer 32.75" Brown & White Spotted
     Grand Dam:  MGF Tell Me A Tell, 29 3/4"Dark Brown & White Spotted


Dam:  The Elms Spiced Wine, 33" Dark Brown
     Grand Sire:   MGF Black Knight, 32.5" Black
     Grand Dam:  Rearview's Red Synnamon, 32.25" Dark Red

Such fancy markings! Miss Fancy has a lovely up-headed style, very elegant, like her mother, with really nice conformation. Those are very special markings, with the white collar and the full mascara around her eyes, highlighted by the blaze. Two white hind socks as well. Her base color, which is lighter than both her sire and dam, suggests that she carries red genetics (her mother is known to carry red). Calm temperament comes from both sides. Her sire is wooly, but her dam is not, and Fancy, with her normal foal coat, and lovely upright mane, will not be a wooly. I expect her to shed out normally and sleekly like her mother when mature. Available to go to her new home at weaning when she is 5 months old. 

Sale Pending!

Brown & White Spotted Wooly Jack
Birth: June 3, 2017
MDR #pending

Sire:  The Elms Lil Hairy Dude, 31.25" Brown Wooly Jack
     Grand Sire:   GJR Little Red Hairy, 30" Dark Red
     Grand Dam:  The Elms Absolutely Precious, 29 3/4" Black & White Spotted Jennet


Dam:  Heiken’s Ark Anneka LB, 32" Brown and White Spotted Wooly Jennet
     Grand Sire:   L.U.A. Maxx's Little Buckaroo, 30 3/8" Black
     Grand Dam:  Gardner's Anna B, 32.25" Grey & White Spotted

Bolero is a likely looking foal, nice spotted pattern. These pictures are when he was a few days old, so too early to tell if he will be wooly. Same brown color as his mother. I’ll be taking more pictures of him soon. Nice friendly little foal, lots of confidence. Compact with small size. 

 

 

Brown & White Spotted Wooly Jennet
Birth: June 6, 2017
MDR #pending

Sire:  The Elms Fuzzy Wuzzy 30.75" Black & White Spotted Wooly Jack
     Grand Sire:   MGF Musketeer, 32.75" Brown & White Spotted
     Grand Dam:  MGF Shangri-La, 33.25" Black NLP


Dam:  The Elms Lucky Lady, 32" Dark Brown Jennet
     Grand Sire:   GJR Little Red Hairy, 30" Dark Red
     Grand Dam:  MGF Lady Baccarat 32.5" Brown & White Spotted

Sweet little spotted donkey, very friendly, and small. She appears to be a good wooly jennet. Her mother, with a rich dark chocolate coat never completely sheds out. Pictures from July 26, 2017. 

Lucky Lady and her foal have been sold and are going to Germany. 

 

Brown and White Spotted Wooly Jennet
Birth: May 21, 2017
MDR #pending

Sire:  The Elms Fuzzy Wuzzy 30.75" Black and White Spotted Wooly Jack
     Grand Sire:   MGF Musketeer, 32.75" Brown & White Spotted
     Grand Dam:  MGF Shangri-La, 33.25" Black NLP


Dam:  The Elms Anneliese, 32.75” Brown Wooly Jennet
     Grand Sire:   GJR Little Red Hairy, 30" Dark Red
     Grand Dam:  Heiken's Ark Anneka, 32” Brown & White Spotted

Tiny foal takes after her sire and grandsire, Little Red Hairy. 18.5 inches at birth. Her mother is a wonderful wooly jennet, always has lots of hair, and we think with multiple generations of long hair on both sides that Liesel will be a good wooly foal as well. With spots, and small size, we don’t expect this foal to remain available very long. Anneliese and Liesel are being offered together.

Update, the picture above taken October 4

Brown and White Spotted Wooly Jack
Birth: April 26, 2017
MDR #pending

Sire:  The Elms Lil Harry Dude, Dark Brown Wooly Jack
     Grand Sire:   GJR Little Red Hairy, 30” Dark Red
     Grand Dam:  The Elms Absolutely Precious, 29 3/4" Black & White Spotted


Dam:  Bainbridge’s emerald Isle, 32.5" Dark Brown & White Spotted Wooly Jennet
     Grand Sire:   Arrow Creek Harry Houdini, 34" Black
     Grand Dam:  MGF Venus Ezri, 33.5" Very Dark Brown & White Spotted

Lovely, spunky, spotted jack, and he is wooly. His sire is known to carry red, and the lighter brown color that Harp has shows he probably also carries red genetics. Nice conformation, friendly, and wooly. Good wooly traits showing in this now weaned jack. He has thick and long body hair, also feathers on his lower legs. Medium textured hair that reminds me of his mother’s hair coat. Harp has a quiet temperament, and is a mannerly little jack. His training has started and he accepts the halter nicely, leads, stands tied, and is good for hoof work.

 

Black w/Cross Wooly Jennet
Birth: April 26, 2017
MDR #pending

Sire:  The Elms Tip Top, 31" Dark Brown & White Spotted Wooly Jack
     Grand Sire:   GJR Little Red Hairy, 30” Dark Red
     Grand Dam:  The Elms Absolutely Precious, 29 3/4” Black & White Spotted


Dam:  The Elms Absolutely Precious, 29.75" Black & White Spotted Wooly Jennet
     Grand Sire:   MGF Absolut, 31" Dark Brown & White Spotted
     Grand Dam:  Archadian Michaela, Brown/Gray & White Spotted

Oh, she is So Precious! Black with a cross, and hair that is so thick. We are sure she will be a wonderful wooly donkey, with this sire and dam.

Definitely a super wooly, as these pictures from August 15, 2017 show. At 3 1/2 months her black newborn foal coat has bleached out a lot, but the very dark color should return. However, as a wooly, she will always show bleached hair, so she will look mostly a rich dark brown unless you clip her. But then she wouldn’t be wooly, so it’s a choice. Lovely stocky conformation. 

 

Dark Brown Wooly Jennet
Birth: May 5, 2017
MDR #pending

Sire:  The Elms Lil Hairy Dude, Dark Brown Wooly
     Grand Sire:   GJR Little Red Hairy, 30” Dark Red
     Grand Dam:  The Elms Absolutely Precious, 29 3/4” Black & White Spotted


Dam:  The Elms Wooly Bear, 33” Dark Brown Wooly
     Grand Sire:   MGF Doctor Shivago, 32.5" Dark Brown & White Spotted
     Grand Dam:  MGF Whispering Rose, Brown & White Spotted

Really nice stocky jennet, and we can tell she will be wooly, like her sire and dam. More pictures coming soon.

This foal looks so much like her mother! She’s going to be wooly, and what a build!. Straight legs, stocky build, hair that falls in locks, long floppy mane. There is a reason her mother was a high selling jennet at the McRoberts dispersal sale. Are there eyes under those bangs?! Pictures taken July 15, 2017.

 

Black w/Cross Jennet
Birth: April 10, 2017
MDR #pending

Sire:  The Elms Tip Top,  Brown & White Spotted
     Grand Sire:   GJR Little Red Hairy, 30” Dark Red
     Grand Dam:  MGF Tequila Sunrise, 33” Dark Brown & White Spotted


Dam:  MGF Venus Pon Farr, 32.25" Dark Brown
     Grand Sire:   The Fireman, 32.5" Dark Red
     Grand Dam:  MGF Venus Uhura, 31" Black/Brown

Valeris is a compact and well built jennet. Her dam is Venus Pon Farr, a Fireman daughter out of a Valintino 50 daughter. Pon Farr, a foundation jennet of excellence, has had foals that were red, brown, black, black and white spotted, and some were wooly. The sire, Tip Top, is a wonderful compact wooly jack combining the Little Red Hairy and the Harry Houdini blood lines. The Elms Valeris, at almost one year, measures 28 1/4”, and is black. She has a spunky personality, very willing to halter and lead, good for the farrier. She shows a longer than average foal coat in these pictures, but I expect her to shed out normally this year. She is not a wooly donkey. We think she would be a good show jennet, with that outgoing attitude, the upright head carriage, and what will probably be a naturally shiny black coat.

$2000