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Eola
Hills Miniature Donkey Farm is smack dab in
the middle of Oregon's wine country where we
sit on a hill about 920' up. The view
is spectacular! The farm overlooks Mt.
Hood, Mt. Saint Helens and 3 other mountains
on the East side and on the West side we have
the Pacific Coastal Mountain range where we
watch gorgeous sunsets!!! We have
wineries and fields of grapes all around us...pinot
noir, merlot, pinot blanc, shiraz and cab's!!
Mixed in with these are Filbert/Hazelnut orchards
and fields of rye grass/oats and wheat!!
We
are 'retired' and we wanted a new venture so
we bought 5 beautiful acres where we built
our dream home. We also built a barn that
we spend more time in than the dream house.
Then we went on line in search of the perfect
animal for our new barn, and NOT a big animal
as we've always had small pets. Even our
dog is a Chihuahua!
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We
ended up with miniature donkeys after doing
a lot of research on them. We met so many
nice people on the web last summer doing all
this research, so in October of 2002 we hitched
up our brand new horse trailer to our RV and
we took off to pick up our new babies in Ohio,
Tennessee and Texas.
The
round trip was a little over 7400 miles in only
one month! We had bought 9 donkeys but
of course we had to buy one more from Dayle
at Half Ass Acres which made our total 10 donkeys
in a 2/horse trailer!!! We picked up our
last donkey in La Grange, Texas from Rita at
Low Down Donkeys, and headed for home.
It took us 3½ days to travel over 3100 miles
to get home. We did very little sleeping,
but a lot of stopping and watering, feeding
and resting the little critters!
As
we look back on it now we realize how much God
was with us all the way because we were total
NEWBY'S when it came to any of this! All
the miniature donkeys arrived home very happy
little critters to get on solid ground again.
Did
I mention they rode in the trailer for the whole
3½ days and not one donkey got stressed?
Two hours after getting them home our 5 yr old
granddaughter was walking in their pen petting
and brushing them. It was an adventure!
One
of our original jennets had a foal on Father's
Day and last Spring I bought another brood jennet
in Washington State, which is a lot closer than
Ohio and Tennessee. She is due any time
now. Check back here soon to see the new
addition to Eola Hills Miniature Donkey Farm's
family.
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