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Jenna

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everyone here must love animals, and almost all of you have them, but besides horses what kinds do you have? ex. goats, cows, sheep, ducks, chickens etc
 
Lots of minis
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A bunch of kitties

And 1 dog!

We used to have goldfish but they were 11 years old and they died last Summer.
 
19 miniature horses

1 pony

4 arabian horses(soon to be 3)

1 dog(border collie in house)

2 cats(in house)

20 cats(in barn-technically my father in laws)

50+ head of jersey cattle(technically my husband and father in laws)

4 fish(in house)
 
a nearing 12 year old German Shepherd matriarch named Riis (my love)

two crazy Berner girls, Callie and Katie

a barn cat named Blackie

two Ragdoll Queens named Jasmine and Jenna

a 5 year old neutered flame point Himalayan named Casey

our 11 month old mitted chocolate point Ragdoll stud, Seamus
 
A clydesdale

2 standard donkeys

A pony

3 minis

12 chickens

3 trough goldfish

1 dog

2 cats

1 lovebird

I'd LOVE to have a goat or two, but I feel like I'm at my max right now, which becomes abundantly clear when I start writing instructions for the farm sitter when we want to get away! Yikes!
 
4 Minis

1 Welsh Pony

6 Nigerian Dwarf Goats (3 does, 2 bucks, 1 wether)

1 Alpine Dairy Goat (my sister's)

14 free-range chickens (4 Easter eggers, 3 Old English Game Bantams,6 Barred Plymouth Rock, and a Cochin cross)

Numerous Barn cats (some are tame and have names, some are not)

1 Toy Fox Terrier (mine), my sister has a longhaired dachshund in the house with us, and a Australian Kelpie that lives outside).

I'd love to have an alpaca or a llama, but my time is used up right now caring for what I have!

You can see photos of most of the critters on my website.
 
10 minis

2 big horses (20 and 21 years old, bought one at 18 months old and the other at 2 years)

1 Welsh pony

1 donkey

2 goats

4 barn cats

4 dogs (1 is actually my mother's)

1 big indoor gold fish
 
1 Paint mare

3 miniature horses

1 pgymy goat

9 mouse traps(barn kitties)

1 house kitty

1 shih tzu

6 chickens

3 goldfish-that live in the water tanks to eat mosquitos.

That is it so far...
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2 quarter horses 28 and 25, raised one and had other since 6 months old (gonna be hard to make THE DECISION)

3 minis

one dog --getting older

two cats--getting older

Keep thining when one goes alot will follow.....but hope not too quickly!
 
8 minis (4 are prego)

2 mute swans

12 chickens

3 cats

4 bunnys

2 dogs

1 husband
 
14 minis, 1 Thoroughbred, 1 Arabian, 1 Great Pyr, 2 Border Collies, 1 Airedale puppy,
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6 sheep, 3 cats, 6 hens, and a tank of tropical fish. Those are the domesticated ones. In addition we have a family of river otter, barn owl, deer, occasionally elk, beaver, salmon, wood ducks, heron, bald eagles, skunk, raccoons, bull frogs, wolves,
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, cougar, respectful coyotes (don't laugh, the GP keeps them that way,) and enought tweety birds and crows, rats and mice to feed the rest. The flock of vultures do the clean up. All that and we are only a couple of miles from the center of town.
 
1 pgymy goat pregnant

10 mini horses

2 fallow deer male and female

hope to have babies in the future.

2 Bernese dogs for the barn

1 neutered cat for the barn

breed Shih Tzu and poodles in the house

I enjoy and love all of them.
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Too many, some days; not enough, other days...

11 minis

1 APHA breeding stock mare

1 AQHA gelding

1 grade gelding (my husband's)

2 stock dogs (husband's red heeler, and I have a mixed breed stock dog, both spayed females)

3 house cats

too many barn cats to count (4 kittens leaving for new home today, 5 if I can catch the wild one)

and a herd of Red AngusX cattle
 
Like someone said, on good days not enough, on cold, wet, snowy days too many--but I love them all.

Residing here at the farm and the "No Vacancy Sign is Out"
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16 Miniatures

10 Shetlands

1 Miniature Jenny

1 Miniature Molly Mule

4 cats, (one is inside/outside, 2 of the ladies are elderly (16 & 19), and one that thinks he is a dog)

4 dogs (Reg Min Pin, Miniature Smooth Fox Terrier, Chi/Dachy cross, and a uncropped Min Pin little girl who thinks she is the terror of the county)

Approx 20 chickens of which 12-13 are bantams

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and a partridge and a pear tree
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In addition to miniature horses, my husband and I own a riding horse, some dwarf goats, dogs, cats and many types of tropical fish.
 
We have:

-3 Miniature Dachshunds

-1 Pit Bull/German Shepherd

-3 Leopard Geckos

-6 Miniature Horses

-1 QH/Mustang

-*20 snakes

It's a zoo.
 
Well....
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3 minis

 

1 Welsh pony

 

3 dogs ( 2 miniature pinchers and a mix) 1 kitty

2 guinea pigs
 
48 minis and/or Shetland ponies (which includes this year's youngsters)

2 Welsh pony mares - B size (one is a rescue who we are keeping, I think.)

4 full sized riding horses (one is currently being leased out to a teenager. And one is a rescue who we are looking to re-home.)

4 llamas

1 crazy goat (half fainting, half pygmy and he needs a home! He was also a rescue.)

1 mini donkey (a jenny who we have fallen in love with. Thank you Shari for her. She is a GIFT.)

4 dogs (1 golden retriever, 1 lab mix, 1 Karelian Bear Dog, and 1 Coonhound.... Two were shelter dogs.)

3 cats ( 1 Siamese mix, 1 long haired gray, 1 Maine Coon.... ALL were shelter kitties.)

2 caged Birds ( 1 Conure, 1 Cockatiel)

5 indoor fish in aquarium.

DOZENS of goldfish outside in both our irrigation pond and big cow trough.......long story.
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