Hello!  We have been breeding both mammoth donkeys and miniature donkeys since 2002.  However, we are going to stop breeding the miniatures because our jennies are getting too old to breed.  We have one last baby gray jack to sell, very pretty, friendly and sweet, who was born May 22, 2009.  He is $500.00  Then we are going to place his mother and another jenny to one good home for $300.00 total.  Tessa Bear (spotted gray and white) and Rebecca (gray dun) are going to be 18 and 22 years old, respectively, so they will probably live another 10 years or even longer.  All of our miniature donkeys allow their feet to be picked up as we start getting them used to it within a week or two of birth.  Rebecca and Tessa Bear love to be petted and scratched.  They are a little afraid of horses, they are in with some now, but they keep their distance.  I think Tess must have had a bad experience with a horse sometime in her past.  Tessa Bear also got shot through the ear with a BB gun when she lived in the northwest.  At some point, the hole got caught on some barbed wire and ripped the ear, so she has a split ear.  She is very loving, despite it!  Rebecca stays back a little bit, making sure you are not a horseshoer.  Once she sees that you have no tools, she comes up for her share of attention.

We decided to keep breeding our mammoth donkeys because they are much more rare than the miniatures.  We have acquired a gray and white spotted mammoth jack whose birth name was Centinela's El Jarafe.  (Jarafe means giraffe in Spanish.)  He was very thin when we first got him in the Fall of 2008, but after dental work and lots of hay, he is finally looking good.  He was born in 2000.  He is 15.2 hands tall or 62 inches in donkey lingo.  He has been running with our three mammoth jennets and it appears that at least two of them have been bred.  We are hoping for spotted mammoth babies in late Spring of 2010.  Two of my jennies are Matilda's daughters, who you can see in the picture at top left.  I bought her for her pretty head and long neck, and both daughters, Misty and Rain, have her pretty face.  I mention this as some mammoth donkeys have ugly heads, big browbones that stick way out above their eyes.  Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Our Mammoth jack's picture is below.  He is 15.2 hands tall (62 inches at the shoulder.)  His birth name was Centinela's El Jarafe, which means The Giraffe in Spanish.  He has not been registered, so we may register him under the Blue Agave moniker.  He has a number of famous relatives.  However, we found him in southern New Mexico in 2008 pretty thin.  He was born in 2000.  He is running with our 3 black Catalonian type jennies and it looks like at least 2 of them are pregnant.  However, he is unproven thus far.  He is gentle as a puppy.  If the jennies are pregnant, they will have foals in Spring, 2010. 

Above are pictures of rare Poitou Donkeys from France. I don't have any of these, but some Mammoth Jackstock are part Poitou.  My donkey Stormy, who is a Granddaughter of Jen-Jack, is supposed to be part Poitou.

To read about Jen-Jack, who was a famous Mammoth Jack, see http://www.bramothfarm.com/pages/jen.htm