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Our Mini Story By Rhonda 2003 Bought our first mini donkeys, bred jennets SWR Dolly and Gardner's Rhonda Started visiting farms(even went to Nebraska), purchasing jennets and learning about miniature donkeys Bought our first jack, Safari Country King Ebony, to start breeding. 2004 Attended lots of shows and talked with exhibitors about showing Waiting on our first foals to be born, finally, in the summer 3 jack foals born within 30 days of each other. Smooth easy births and so much fun. 2005 Decided “we want to show” I surprised Jim with The Red Gates Stetson and Sterling, half brothers and just exactly what we were looking for. Practiced, got help clipping, ordered beautiful show halters from Showgirls, filled out our entry and off to the first show we went. Jim liked showing, thought it was fun and I was scared to death. So we came up with a plan that Jim would show and I would do the grunt work to get us ready to go into the arena. I did show one more time at the TX State Fair in Best Matched Pair and we won a blue ribbon. The donkeys that won, our first blue ribbon were Wee Friends Farm All Shook Up and Lazarus. I did better the second time but realized it was not for me We went to a driving clinic because I thought that looked like fun. Again Jim enjoyed driving and I did not. We needed a trailer with living quarter to do all this showing, so Jim found one in North Florida and we drove from Texas to pick it up. That fall Jim's young teen age granddaughter, Tiffany, came to live with us and decides she wants to show. So that added another person to our show family and our living quarter trailer. Tiffany realizes she needs one of her friends to keep her company and help her, so Tenisha came with us to the shows. It was work, a good time together and the start of us promoting youth in the show ring. Tiffany and Tenisha showed Stetson and Sterling, while Jim showed Shook. We won every color ribbon and enjoyed the show season. In August our first jennet foal was born so we named her Lil Graceland Lisa Marie. Finally, a girl. 2006 Still showing, having cute babies and breeding. The babies are my favorite part of mini donkeys Several more girl foals born this year and boys. We always seemed to be outnumbered by boys. We love them all just the same. One of the boys born this year Lil Graceland Fun In Acapulco, aka Lil A Decided to do an outside breeding to have a My World Red Alert baby. Took Cobra's Nina Bonita to Flynn TX to spend some time with Red Alert. (Hoping for a great looking girl) 2007 I started to really like red donkeys and decided it was time to search for a red herdsire. I liked Quarter Moon Ticker Tape, so decided I needed one of his sons and ended up with two. Quarter Moon Red Light would be gelded and become Tiffany's new show donkey. They did so good in the show ring, she trained him herself. Quarter Moon Gold Coast (a little doll) would eventually be our main herdsire. It is a BOY!!! Lil Graceland Speedway is born in September, Dam Cobra's Nina Bonita and Sire My World Red Alert. He is so small 20”. OH NO! He is not red, but nice color like Nina. We buy Li'l Angels Miss Diane to be our next jennet show donkey. Her first show, on her first birthday and she wins a blue ribbon at State Fair of TX. Tiffany and QM Red Light win Reserve Champion Youth SDMS Show 2008 SDMS Texas Shoot Out The Red Gates Stetson wins Gelding Halter Class 5 years and older Lil Graceland Speedway wins Reserve Champion Halter at SDMS Fall Show in Belton State Fair of Texas, Jim and The Red Gates Stetson win a belt buckle for NMDA High Point Green Adult, really proud of these accomplishments! Our friend in Oklahoma lends us a jennet to breed to Speedway Tiffany and QM Red Light wins Reserve Champion High Point Youth at SDMS Show 2009 QM Gold Coast first foal is born July 20, 2009 Lil Graceland Gold Record and he is red. It was love at first site. Big plans for this little boy. State Fair of Texas Tiffany and QM Red Light wins a belt buckle for NMDA High Point Youth at State Fair of TX.
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