Cabinwood Farm Blog

Our spotted ivory jennet weanling Lady Alexandria now has a new roommate! Miss Maggie arrived from Pennsylvania on Monday and the two are being stalled together for a week so they can bond and get to know each other. Aren’t they cute? A real BFF Ebony and Ivory pair!! Maggie and Alexandria are named after my grandaughter Alexandria and her own BFF Maggie!

We welcomed yet another jennet foal to our Cabinwood Family as Little friend’s Celina gave birth last Friday evening to Cabinwood’s Sally Ruth! Sally Ruth was sired by the jack Dogwood Hill’s Black Echo. Echo was standing stud at Cabinwood for several months last summer on loan to us by JD and Debbie Kerns at Bray’n Hill Farm. Celina did a fine job in her delivery and is being an excellent mother! Sally Ruth is quite the active little jennet and is already zooming around the pasture like she owned it! We really are amazed after so many years of foaling mostly jack foals to have had one after the other little jennets born this year so far! Seven little girls in a row! Wow…we have one foal yet to come this season…..could we make it eight??????? Time will tell!

This is going down as one amazing year here at Cabinwood Farm! We started the birthing year in February with two handsome little boys and it has been GIRLS RULE ever since! Count them…1,2,3,4,5 and SIX! This time our latest little girl was born in the wee hours of the night in the middle of a raging thunder storm with pouring rain beating on the metal roof of the barn! Hauenstein’s Black Satin Gypsy gave birth on July 23 to Cabinwood’s Calixta…a gorgeous dark dark brown NLP tiny little sweetheart named after a character (pronounced Calista) in one of my favorite short stories in literature, “The Storm” by Kate Chopin. Calixta is the second foal produced by our dk brown ivory carrier Furball Acre Jokers Wild.

We are SO PLEASED with the offsping this season by our two young boys Painter and Joker…5 girls and all of them one beauty after another! We can’t wait to see what our last two foals are like by last year’s visiting Jack Dogwood Hills Black Echo! What an exciting year this has been!

Donkey Camp 2011 began on Monday July 18! This year’s 3 volunteer campers are Alexandria Bennett, Richie Pearce and Maggie Polk. They will spend the week learning about donkeys and how to care for them…..not only the fun stuff but the other stuff like manure and barn cleaning! If they are very lucky they might even have a new foal arrive during this week of camp!

Other great activities are out of the barn and into the kitchen where they will be cooking up favorite recipes along with things like making butter from the cream of our Amish neighbor’s cow, using the buttermilk to do some baking and also they will try their hands at making homemade noodles from eggs donated by one of our donkey customers! Wednesday we’ll be berry picking if the weather allows! Friday they will prepare a delicious dinner for their parents when they come to pick them up! Saturday I will collaspe in the chair and be glad that another fun week has come to an end!

It’s looking to be a HOT one this week but we know it will be FUN!!

Cabinwood Farm welcomes another great jennet foal and this time she was born on the 4th of July holiday! Liberty Bell Grace arrived with gusto and as you can see from her picture, has a beautiful splash of holiday fireworks right on her forehead!

This is definitely the year of the GIRL at Cabinwood Farm! Welcome to you, Little Grace!

Jelly Bean has always been special to me since I was fortunate enough to be there at her at her birth (sort of:) with Connie Bonczek and family through the miracle of telephone and photos!! So when I finally got the opportunity to bring Jelly here to Cabinwood, I was so thrilled and couldn’t wait for her to grow up and become a mother herself! Well WOW, she sure made me proud as she foaled the most beautiful MSF (masked spotting factor) ivory jennet foal last week!

Cabinwood Farm is thrilled to welcome Cabinwood’s Lady Alexandria to our farm! She is our first spotted ivory born here, the 4th ivory jennet in a row born this spring and she is named after another very special girl…my oldest granddaughter Alexandria Bennett!!

No, you are not seeing double…or even triple in these pictures! Last night we had yet another beautiful ivory jennet foal born here at Cabinwood Farm! That makes three ivory girls in a row in less then a month! Our ivory jennet Donkette Korral Chamomile gave birth late last evening to Lady Emily Louise. The sire of this foal is our ivory herdsire Cabinwood’s JT Chance. We have worked so hard to put this ivory breeding program together over the last few years and it is SO EXCITING to see it finally coming into its own!

Our next three foals due will be cross breedings from several of our ivory carrier jennets and our ivory and carrier jacks! Anything can happen with these pairings so we wait with great anticipation!!!

Cabinwood Farm welcomed yet another little ivory jennet foal to our herd yesterday! We welcome to this world Cabinwood’s Lady Rosemond named in memory of another great beauty Elizabeth “Rosemond” Taylor!

 Hauenstein’s Mirage expertly gave birth late in the afternoon and by early evening Lady Rosemond was romping all around the barn and Mirage was definitely ready for a nap! It will be so nice to see both the newest little girls of Cabinwood Amanda and Rosemond out in the pasture soon with our first two foals, the little boys of Cabinwood Jason and Dooley!