31 ½" Dark Red Jennet
DOB 8/21/81
MDR #21866
Microchip ID#on file

Sire:  LCR Valintino 58th, 31 ½" Dark Brown
      Grand Sire:  Lazy C Ranch Valintino 14, 29" Brown
      Grand Dam:  Aday's Bushnell Gobi, 33 ½" Dark Brown/Gray

Dam:  Evan's Laura, 32" Red
      Grand Sire:  Untraced
      Grand Dam:  Untraced

Penny is the dam of the following foals that we are aware of:

1) Windcrest Rusty Red, 31½" dark red jack, foaled 6/29/94;
2) Windcrest Bruno, dark brown jack, foaled 5/31/95;
3) Windcrest Coppertop, a 31" bright red herd sire foaled 1997 at Parkside Ranch,
4) Windcrest Just Peachy, a 34" lt red jennet with an extensive show record foaled 3/10/98;
5) Windcrest Alicia, dark red jennet, foaled 4/08/00
6) HHAA Riff Raff, a dark red jack foaled 7/26/02 herdsire at West Ridge Acres;
7) HHAA Ima Red Ray, a red jennet with a star now in France foaled 10/06/03;
8) HHAA Come What May, a dark red jennet foaled 5/05/05;
9) HHAA Last Dance, a very dark brown jack w/NLP foaled 10/27/07.

Penny has now been permanently retired and lives a life of luxury and ease at Half Ass Acres. We think she has done her duty raising beautiful babies in her lifetime. Queen Pena', as we like to call her, has the run of our isleways and barn. Whenever Penny brays we drop everything and attend to her every need.  Photos of Penny above were taken on July 8th, 2007.

Click here to see photos of Penny's very last foal, HHAA Last Dance.

33" Red Jennet
DOB 4/15/96
MDR #27872
Microchip ID#on file

Sire:  Windcrest Little Red Man, 31" Dark Red
      Grand Sire:  Flint Farm Ollie, 31 ½" Light Red
      Grand Dam:   Candy Girl, 32" Red

Dam:  Seymour's Sunflower, 32" Red
      Grand Sire:  Seymour's General Custer, 32" Red
      Grand Dam:  Seymour's Lilly, 32 ½" Red

Amber is the dam of the following foals:

1) Windcrest Anastasia, brown jennet, foaled 1999;
2) Windcrest Red Starfire, dark red jack, foaled 5/31/00;
3) Windcrest Fifty's Fancy, dark red jennet, foaled 8/11/01;
4) The Elm's Rimfire, dark red jack w/star, foaled 9/23/02;
5) The Elm's Fifty's Flair, dark red jennet, foaled on Amber's birthday 4/15/04;
6) The Elm's Watchman, red jack, foaled 5/12/05;
7) The Elms Monterey, red jack, foaled 9/9/06.

Amber Rose is a beautiful retired brood jennet that has not had a foal since 2006. Amber has the kind of head we adore on a donkey...short and wide. Since she has come to live at Half Ass Acres we have discovered she has a hormone problem. She smells like she is in season when she is not and it causes a jack to chase her for no reason. She is now retired to our jennet pasture and we will not allow a jack to torture her anymore.  We may attempt to hand bred her later this year and see if we can get her in foal. If not she can live a life of ease here at Half Ass Acres.

4/04/10: Update! Amber has been hand bred to Firefly and we have not observed her back in season yet!

"ACOSA Grand National Champion Spotted Jennet"

In Loving Memory
10/11/96 ~ 4/28/05

Alanis was killed in a freak accident - she will be greatly missed. We have retained her only daughter, Taste The Rainbow, in our breeding program. Bow was born on her mom's birthday and she will be kept here at Half Ass Acres in honor of her dam who we all adored.

33 ½" Dark Chocolate/White Spotted Jennet
DOB 10-11-96
MDR #21926
ACOSA #SA1395

Sire:  Fisher's Great Gildersleeve, 32 ¼" Tri-colored Spot
      Grand Sire:  Fisher's Tiny Gideon, 32" Gray/White Spot
      Grand Dam:  Fisher's Bit O' Honey, 32" Gray-Dun

Dam:  Half Ass Acres Christy, 32 ½" Very Dark Gray-Dun
      Grand Sire:  English Meadows Timothy, 31" Black
      Grand Dam:  English Meadows Diana, 34" Gray-Dun

Alanis' dam was a 32½" very dark brownish gray who was our most correct jennet, Half Ass Acres Christy, and she was sired by our retired spotted jack, Indiana Jones. She is a full sister to Monty, 2003 Grand National Spotted Gelding, and 2004 NMDA Grand National Gelding, and Harley, top 3 Grand National Winner Spotted Jack. Alanis won her class and then stood Grand Champion Spotted Jennet at the Great Celebration Mule & Donkey Show for the ACOSA Nationals held July 3rd, 1999.  She was then retired to our brood jennet band.

Alanis was the dam of the following two foals:

1) HHAA Mahogany MoJo, a gorgeous dark brown gelding, foaled on 4/27/02.
2) HHAA Taste The Rainbow, dark spotted jennet, foaled on 10/11/03.

In Loving Memory
8/17/90 ~ 11/25/06

32 ½" Dark Gray/Brown Jennet w/a Tiny Star
DOB 8-17-90
MDR #11168
Microchip ID#on file

Sire:  English Meadows Timothy 31" Black
      Grand Sire:  Untraced
      Grand Dam:  Untraced

Dam:   English Meadows Diana, 34" Gray-Dun
      Grand Sire:  Untraced
      Grand Dam:  Untraced

Christy came to live with us in 1997 along with her daughter, Alanis. Christy's offspring was usually always show quality. Several of them were National Champions.

She was the dam of the following:

1) Half Ass Acres Reba McIntyre, dark spotted jennet foaled on 7/21/93;
2) Half Ass Acres Kojack, spotted jack foaled on 7/23/94;
3) Half Ass Acres Mike Tyson, brown/gray jack foaled on 9/14/95;
4) Half Ass Acres Alanis, Grand National Spotted Jennet foaled 10/11/96;
5) HHAA Monty, dark spotted gelding foaled 4/17/98 and the 2003 Grand National Spotted Gelding & 2004 NMDA Grand National Gelding....Monty was trained and shown by Kathy Loudamy at K & K Ranch in Texas ;
6) HHAA Harley, Grand National Spotted Top Three for two years, foaled 7/11/99;
7) HHAA Perrydise, gray gelding foaled on 4/27/02;
8) HHAA How U Doin, gray gelding foaled on 9/24/03;
9) HHAA White Noise, dark spotted jack foaled on 6/6/05

In Loving Memory
6/13/99 ~ 7/20/09

33 ¾" Dark Brown/White Spotted Jennet
DOB 6/13/99
MDR #26475
ACOSA #SA1893
Microchip ID#on file

Sire:  Hartman Donkey's Trenton, 33 ½" Brown/White Spot
      Grand Sire: Rockbridge Maracas, 33" Gray/White Spot 
      Grand Dam: Hartman Donkey's Lass 204, no other information given

Dam:  Sunset Acres Danielle, 33 ¼" Gray-Dun
      Grand Sire:  K-5 Dapper, 32 ½" Gray-Dun
      Grand Dam:  K-5 Peppermint Patty, 33" Gray-Dun

Shawnee was not only beautiful but she had the most comical personality of just about any donkey that we have met. She was so dark brown that she almost looked black and white and she had a perfect spot pattern. She was stocky and correct and had everything we look for in a jennet. The above photos were taken in November with her thick winter coat. She was absolutely gorgeous when we body clipped her but we were unable to photograph her as she was killed in an accident the night before we planned to take new photos of her.

Shawnee was the dam of the following three foals:

1) HHAA Bada Bing, 6/09/04 dark brown jack;
2) HHAA Secret's Out 5/20/06, dark brown jennet;
3) HHAA Simon Sez 3/12/08, very dark brown jack.

In Loving Memory
6/20/98 ~ 2/09/10
33 ¼" Dark Red/Roan Jennet
DOB 6/20/98
MDR #26083
Microchip ID#on file

Sire:  The Fireman, 32 ½" Dark Red
      Grand Sire:  DMF Junior, 33" Rose-Dun
      Grand Dam:  Danby Farm Grumpy, Brown/Gray

Dam:  MGF Venus Fyrina 55, 33" Dark Red
      Grand Sire:  The Fireman, 32 ½" Dark Red
      Grand Dam:  MGF Venus Nazina 54, 33" Brown

Strawberry is our most popular jennet because when she brays she sounds like an Opera singer. Everyone wants to hear her bray. We look forward to hearing her bray at feeding time every day. It is a bright spot in our day. We purchased Strawberry from Wit's End Farm. We are so very pleased with this jennet. She is a dark cherry red with near flawless conformation. Strawberry was bred to Windcrest Firefly for a foal due on March 24th, 2010.

Sadly Strawberry was euthanized on 2/9/10 from complications due to suspected botulism poisoning.  A c-section was performed but her red jennet foal was already gone also from lack of oxygen to the uterus. Thank you to all the vets at Tennessee Veterinary Hospital who so valaintly tried to save mom and jennet.  It was a priviledge having Strawberry in our lives. We will forever miss her lyrical 'opera' brays every day for the rest of our lives. We cannot imagine our lives without hearing her musical voice everyday. Now she will be singing in Heaven. 

Strawberry was the dam of the following six foals:

1) Windcrest Sweet Harmony, a dark red jennet foaled in 2002;
2) Wit's End Appalachian Foxfire, 6/20/04, dark cherry red gelding;
3) Wit's End Home-Run, 8/04/05, dark red gelding;
4) Wit's End Kurb Appeal, 9/20/06, dark red gelding;
5) HHAA 'Atta' Boy,9/23/08, dark red jack w/star.
6) Unnamed Red Jennet, delivered stillborn by c-secion during Strawberry's death on 2/09/10.