31½" Light Gray
& White Spotted Jennet
DOB 9/29/94
MDR Registration #EC13239
ACOSA Registration #SA2623
DNA Typed @ Texas A&M University
Microchip ID#on file
Sire:
Garrett's Cozy Acres Silver Fox, 32 ¾" Gray/White Spot
Grand
Sire: Untraced
Grand Dam: Untraced
Dam:
Shady Acres Muffin, 32¼" Gray-Dun
Grand Sire: Shady
Acres Julio, 29½" Gray-Dun
Grand Dam: Untraced
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Picabo
was owned by our mentors, Ed & Linda Trimnell of Windcrest Acres,
since she was a young foal and Linda considered her to be her best
producing jennet. When Windcrest Acres went out of business due to
health reasons Picabo was sold to Kathy Loudamy at K & K Ranch.
Picabo produced many more champions while owned by Kathy and she would
have never parted with her except that she was the hardest donkey to
catch she had ever encountered. Since Kathy is usually always alone
at the barn she offered Boo to me since my husband and I are both retired and we
do all of our donkey chores together. I have admired Picabo and her
offspring throughout all the years I have been involved in donkeys and
I jumped at the chance to own
such a fantastic little spotted donkey. I thought I would have no trouble
training Miss Picabo to easily
be caught.
Day one of owning her: I kept her in a stall and small paddock and
gave her a treat every time I passed her but only if she would allow
me to put the halter on her. I must have repeated this lesson no less
than 50 times that day. Late that afternoon I turned Picabo out in
a larger pasture since I was going to be gone all the next day. About
an hour later I went to her pasture just to see if I could catch her. Well....... she ran like the wind before I
even got within 30' of her!! She was so far away that she could not
have heard me saying 'cookie, cookie' if I had used a megaphone. A
cowboy with a 500' rope could not have lassoed her!! I called Kathy
and told her I wanted my money back. Kathy
promptly told me that Picabo was my 'diet & weight loss donkey' and she insisted
I keep her so that I would be forced to lose weight. At this rate I
should weigh about
100 lbs
by this time next year. If you are ever this way please stop by for
a visit and help me catch Miss Boo so I can worm her and do her little
hooves occasionally. All help will be so appreciated. Just consider
visiting Picabo and me instead of going to the gym. I will keep you
posted on the continuing saga of "Catch Me If You Can".
"Boo" has
retained her great conformation through twelve foals plus due to her
refusal to be caught easily. She is square and drafty and she is a
long time producer of show quality donkeys with her same outstanding
build.
Thank you to The Randall Family for their expert assistance in handling Miss Boo during her photo shoot!! Now you can see why I love her even if she is hard to catch sometimes.
Boo has been retired and is now resting from her last foal born in 2017, Marvel, a dark brown/white spotted jack (later gelded and sold as a pet). Boo was 23 years of age when she last raised a foal. She has become the best of friends with Junebug and they both will live out their lives here at Half Ass Acres.
Update! Boo is now easy to catch because we started feeding her equine senior daily with a feedbag so the others could not steal her food and she now comes running whenever she sees us!! If only I had thought of that years ago.
Update: Boo and her best friend, Bug, were wintering at our old barn where I could easily blanket them when the temperatures dropped below freezing and their stalls had heat lamps. On the morning of January 20th, 2023, we found that Boo had peacefully taken her last breath at almost 29 years of age. We are going to miss her prissy little trot when she did not want to be touched. She is now in heaven with her beloved previous owner and my mentor, Linda Trimnell. We moved her best friend, Bug, to the arena with our spoiled donkeys so we could give her more attention while she is grieving the loss of her buddy Boo.
Boo has produced the following foals:
1) Windcrest Little Trinket, 6/16/98,
a show winning jennet;
2) Windcrest Little Chanelle, 6/02/00, spotted jennet, a show winner;
3) Windcrest Sky's The
Limit, 3/29/01, 2002 ACOSA Grand National Champion Jack;
4) Windcrest Over the
Top, 8/22/02, Spotted Jack, ACOSA 2 & Under National Champion & ACOSA Reserve National Champion Jack, (Sire: Sunset Acres Hoops);
5) Windcrest
April Charm, 4/04/04, dark spotted jennet;.
6) Windcrest
Destiny, her 2005 jack foal, and a full brother to April Charm;
7) KKR Tuff Enough, 4/06/07, dark spotted jack with blue eyes, (Sire: Rowdy Yates);
8) KKR Eight Belles, 8/16/08, gray jennet, (Sire: Speedway Racer);
9) KKR Wise Guy, 9/6/10, spotted jack, (Sire: Rowdy Yates);
10) HHAA Whimsy, 5/21/12, brown jennet, (Sire: Bruise);
11) HHAA Bonafide, 4/22/14, spotted show quality gelding, (Sire: Bruise);
12) HHAA Marvel, 1/07/17, spotted gelding, (Sire: Kryptonite);
Boo is no longer offered for sale. Before she went to
Heaven someone I loved asked
me
to keep Boo forever.
And I will honor that promise as long as I have my health.