Saying Goodbye To 2015! Come On 2016!!!!!

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Hubby and I have been working on our farm since August of 2013. Another year has quickly disappeared, so many great and sad things have come and gone. We are most grateful to GOD for keeping us healthy; emotionally, physically and mentally. We are fifty-five now and this is one of our final bucket list destinations. Living our life simpler with less stress. 2016 we will celebrate our twenty-third year as a couple. Wow!

Great things:

Arena completed.

Hay cut and donated to starving horses as we will grow low sugar/protein hay (sell).

Enjoyed the Olympic Mountains over and over again.

Fences completed, stained.

I created an amazing food garden out of hanging baskets. After the house is completed I will have raised beds.IMG_20150519_133142IMG_20150519_133656IMG_20150519_133744

Living in the 5th wheel has been a challenge in the winter seasons but extremely easy in the spring, summer and fall as we have full sun on our farm, Sequim, WA.

Less rain has helped my body, arthritis and pain will be with me the rest of my life from the Semi-truck accident. Screws in my pelvis cause severe pain and arthritis.

Jewel our twelve year old middle dog had a very dangerous tumor (cancer) on her hip and tummy. Surgery was successful and she is healing she is one strong dog. Thank you Jesus!

We have a new puppy!

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I created my own hand-made Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC Rope Halter/matching lead line with a brass snap and leather end. Sales are outstanding!!!! Thank you for supporting my small business.

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Painful things:

Our dog Sampson died right before Thanksgiving as he had cancer.

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Naturally we did the best thing;

We had our vet send him to heaven no more pain, I cried for three weeks and still call the new puppy his name. I will always love you Sampson! Sampson was our rescue Great Pyrenees/Akita. We had no idea he was sick until one week before he let us know with extreme screaming pain.

I thought I had a publisher for my donkey educational book, turned out to be a scam. Still praying for a publisher.

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My hubby Scott and I are grateful to GOD to give us this farm, let us own the Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC and keep our marriage strong in the middle of some serious test and trials. We are best friends. If you get the opportunity to marry, marry your best friend. Love and friendship must go hand-and-hand as marriage is hard work.

Living in a small space is not easy but it can be done. We are a testimonial to this. IMG_6423

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Rocket Man mini age 21 where is my dinner hurry!

Rocket Man mini age 21 where is my dinner hurry!

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Lead Mare taking over in the wind

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NEVER GIVE UP!!!!

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GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!

Melody Johnson, Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC

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Donkey Whisperer Farm, September 2015

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GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!

Melody Johnson, Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC

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Finally Something Good For Barb Wire

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GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!

Melody Johnson, Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC

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Easy Keeper Donkeys

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Looking for no dental, poop to pick up, kisses, shots, hooves to clean, shelter, low sugar hay/protein, pastures, shelters?

The photo above of the donkey art is your EASY KEEPER donkey. 🙂

Being a farmer, owning equine is a full-time job!

If you want to learn how to get into this lovely world of enjoyment I am now accepting new students. 🙂

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GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!

Melody Johnson, Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC

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EQUINE METABOLIC SYNDROME, DONKEY, HORSE AND MULE

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Select Diet and Fat Score photos

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Oboe in the wind

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Select Paradise Paddock

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 CAUSES, SIGNS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION

 

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GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!

Melody Johnson, Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC

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International Day of Friendship

Enjoy Friends of the Donkey Whisperer Farm

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Why Choose Two Mini Donkeys?

Mini donkeys, can learn to carry your lunch go for a hike, walk when you walk, back-up when you back up, send into a stall quickly turn-around and face you and wait for you to take their halter off.  Stand and whoa, pick up the foot calmly. Mini’s can be taught to go to nursing homes and  help the sick and elderly. A mini donkey can learn to do donkey agility too depending on the physical health and personality introverts are not much into running, for donkey agility you want an extrovert!  Mini donkeys stand eye to eye with your small child and can learn to pull a cart too. Mini donkeys do have weight limits, no more than twenty percent of their body weight and you should ride them in the correct position not on their butt, neck etc.

GUESS WHAT ELSE THEY CAN DO?

Mini donkeys love to be with children as they know the child is safe! So remember this when you take your child to look at the mini donkey have them walk up slow and stay calm.

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Mini donkeys can learn to come a running to you when you call them, pick up their hooves for you and are comedians for sure as they love to play tag, grab the neck, and play tug with a jolly ball, grain bowl or my favorite to watch an orange traffic cone from HOME DEPOT. You will never be sorry if you get two minis and let them enjoy living in a mini world. Mini donkeys do not need as big of shelter, they require less food and still need trimmer, vet, shots, teeth and yearly vet exams. Your vet will help you decide what I most essential depending on the exposure they will be placed in. If you are selecting your first donkey the easiest is a gelding that has never re-produced and is a clean slate meaning no one has abused. Ensure no dog or predator can attack them so they can relax I recommend RED BRAND horse fence as their hoof will not get caught in it. LOWES IS THE CHEAPEST. Mini’s can do all the things the big donkeys and horses can do. Depending on you the owner to learn how to train them. Looking for a coach, consultant and trainer?

Donkeys ride in a trailer with no halter, they ride loose! Why? Donkeys are into self-preservation unlike the horse who is fight or flight equine. I own two mares (athletic horses) here on the Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC along with three mini donkeys, two standard and one Mammoth. Eight is enough as I am a world-wide trainer, coach and consultant of you the owner of a donkey, horse or mule. Select our store to see my world-wide business.

Ask me why I do not put my mini’s in with my horses and Mammoth and standard donkeys?

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Roy our new mini age 5, Amazing jumper

Roy our new mini age 5, Amazing jumper

Rocket Man mini age 21 where is my dinner hurry!

Rocket Man mini age 21 where is my dinner hurry!

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Minis coming in out of the wind

Mini donkeys get us back to our stall

Mini donkeys get us back to our stall

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Rocket Man mini age 21 where is my dinner hurry!

Rocket Man mini age 21 where is my dinner hurry!

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GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!

Melody Johnson, Donkey Whisperer Farm, LLC

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