FARM ANIMALS

     The Photos on this page feature various Farm Animals; some owned in the past by the 5 Cross B Ranch, while others were owned by friends of ours....

Washington

Horses ~ Large & Miniature

      Pictured here is a B Sized Miniature - over 34" tall  Gelding named Sunday A Ranch Light Saber.  I first saw him when he was less than 6 months old at a show and shortly there after purchased him as a potential Driving Horse.  When he was two years old, I trained him to drive.  He is shown here performing in his very first Miniature Show with me (Phoebe) at the whip.  We did well enough in this class to win in this one and another that day.  The next day his original owner drove him in a Championship Class, which he also won.  He was sold a year later to a lady in California who does Three Day Event Driving Classes .  When I last heard from her, Saber was doing very well at this discipline.   

     Over a number of years I owed several Miniature Horses, and this particular individual was my very smallest.  She was born on our ranch, the product of a breeding of Team Mate to the mare, Khameo.  This little filly's name is 5 Cross B Spicy Jelly Bean, or Beans for short.  In this photo I was showing her at 1 1/2 years in a Halter Class.  She had measured in for this show at 25" at the withers - where the last mane hairs are on the back down to the ground.  I sold her shortly after this show, but when she matured she was probably under 28" tall.  I lost track of her soon after and do not know whether she ever became a mother or not.

     Shown in the photo at left is the Miniature Stallion, Dell Tera's Team Mate, or Tim for short.  This 31.5" tall stallion was Jelly Bean's father.  Doesn't he step out nicely??  He was a lot of fun to drive and had a lot of get up and go.  On this particular day it was in the high 90 degree range to boot.  
     He was shown fairly successfully, both as stallion and later after he was gelded, in Driving Classes as well as in Halter.  I sold him after a couple of years, but lost track of how he was doing shortly after that.

show and tell

 How many of you have a horse small enough to take to school for Show and Tell?? This is Jelly Bean, a 25" Miniature Horse youngster that belonged to the 5 Cross B Ranch. The kids just loved her when she came to see them at their elementary school classrooms. She behaved very well during her tour, and made no messes at all during her visit of some 3 hours! By the way, she rode down to school with Phoebe, behind the front seat of our Dodge Super Cab Pickup.  She just climbed up a ramp to slip in behind the seat!

Mules and Donkeys

mammoth donkey and baby

 Think this is one of the cutest Equine Mother and Newborn Baby pictures I’ve ever seen. This Mammoth Donkey mother and just born baby belonged to a friend of mine, Jeanine Rachau who owns Blue Mountain Donkey Ranch in Oregon. Have you ever seen a more adoring look??

Suzy and Hombre

 "WHAT are YOU!!" seems to be the reaction of the Miniature Donkey, Suzy to her first encounter with month old Hombre . With his "coat" on he just didn’t look right to her. The miniature horse colt was born in mid January, just before some rather intense cold weather. This was his first time out of his stall in days, after the temperature finally climbed above 30 degrees from a previous low of near 0 degrees.

Other Farm Animals

Babe and Lamb

 The ewe sheep mother in this picture was Babe, our first sheep. She is shown here with a lamb from a couple of years after we purchased her. This lamb was no dummy. He knew where the softest, warmest place to sleep was, and was not above climbing aboard her back anytime the opportunity for a warm bed presented itself! Eventually he grew too large, and Babe would no longer allow him aboard. We often saw this sort of behavior occurring with other new mothers and their lambs.  Actually saw a lamb parked up on top of our Ram a couple of times in later years.  He didn't seem to mind either....

 

 

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