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Gate Farm Home of
"Diamond C Montana Jack"


Leslie Heulitt
HC 78 Box 27
Rock Cave, West Virginia  26234
304-924-6176
e-mail to:  montanasmama@hughes.net

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Montana is a
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I was just sitting around on my ass and thought you might want to meet the rest of the family and take a tour of our farm. 

 

The official Welcome Wagon at the entrance to Gate Farm, 
"Diamond C Montana Jack"

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Some of the girls up on the hill!
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Just Sittin' On My Ass Thinkin' 
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Just Sittin' On My Ass Thinkin' About How Wonderful 
Donkies Are!

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Sharin'
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"Casey Jones"
Keeshound

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"Bony", Leslie, "Sally "and up front
as usual "JR"

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Leslie and "Tater"
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"JR" and Leslie enjoying some quality time. :)
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"JR" gettin' another treat.
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"Mabelline ", Leslie and Charles.  Tryin' out "Mabelline " upon arrival.....She does ride and Leslie is excited!
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"JR" and Charles
Charles is 6'3" so this shows you just how little "JR" is.

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Leslie and "Tana" goin' to feed.
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"JR" again.
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Pigmy goats
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"Tana" Looking for those treats.
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"Sally" and "Bony" getting a long cool drink from the fresh water spring located behind the barn
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"Mabelline ", "Spot" and Leslie
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Next 5 pictures are of Leslie, "Bony" and Sally"
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The resident Peacock named "Charles"
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 The "middle field" 
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"JR" and I in the show ring...
Guess which class this would be?

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"JR" and I in the show ring again
This Little Jack is so versital!
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This is our good friend Dee Smith from MO. with "Mabelline" and "Spot".   Dee and "Montana" are having a baby-- spring,2001

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My biggest and smallest sharing a bite of hay. Bony Maroney, 
15.3 hh and still growing with 
JR, 32"
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We're wearin' our shoes out producing some of 
the finest Mule and Donkeys in the industry.

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The following  images are of some very dear friends of ours!!

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Liebchen aka Kaliki, by Montana, out of Mamasan 1 1/2 years old, 12.3hh owned by Wolfgang Flor.

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Liebchen aka Kaliki, by Montana, out of Mamasan 1 1/2 years old, 12.3hh owned by Wolfgang Flor.

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Liebchen aka Kaliki, by Montana, out of Mamasan 1 1/2 years old, 12.3hh owned by Wolfgang Flor.

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Liebchen aka Kaliki, by Montana, out of Mamasan 1 1/2 years old, 12.3hh owned by Wolfgang Flor.

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Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve!! This is Ben, a son of Montana wearing his perfect heart!

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My creek "Laurel Fork" in winter

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Fossils of " Pennsylvania Ferns" found on rocks on the farm.

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Holly, my oldster, in her mid 30s modeling her new coat

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My good jennet Mamasan, mother to Little Red, Uno, Kalaki. and (as of 2/3/01) we are waiting for another Mamasan foal due any day 3-24-01 Mamasan foaled 8:00 am, little "Dawn" is doing fine, textbook delivery, almost spotted. More details to follow!!

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The miniature Jennets(retired). Holly, Faith, Frosty and Cricket.

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The Dogs, Tater Tot and Casey Jones

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The old hay barn

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Jessie too old to know the front from the back, but he still likes to ride!

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Elephant Ears, the only thing I grow anymore, figures it would be something with "ears" in it! 

 

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Brandon the cat and Tater tot taking it easy.

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 This is my little dog Tater Tot, Ain't she cute? Can't let her out of the yard or she will travel a mile and bring ya home a chicken dinner!

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A small portion of my "indoor" donkeys

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Again a small portion of my "indoor" donkeys

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Now why can you get photos like this when your taking registration pictures??!!

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Feed Me!

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"Liebchen aka Kaliki", by Montana, out of "Mamasan" 1 1/2 years old, 12.3hh owned by Wolfgang Flor.

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"
Sweetie" and "Ace" catching some rays at the pond.

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This is how I get from one side of the farm to the other <grin> only kidding this is the New River Gorge Bridge here in WV. The largest steel arch bridge in the world.

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This is how you get into the farm over Laurel Fork.

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This is really how I get from one side of the farm to the other!!! <grin> 13' wide and 55' long it takes you from Montana's barn over to the Quadrangle, where the big jennets live.

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When the bridge into the farm and the bridge to the quad were re-build in 2000 we had 2 pieces of guard rail left so we used it to make a mini bridge over the mini swamp for the mini donkeys. All the donks use it from 32" tall JR to 16h Boney Maroney.  In spite of the mini bridge only being 2' wide most of the donks just took it as their due that Mom should provide for a better way across the swamp and all but 2 came right across without a second thought!! The 2 feeling rather left out didn't lag far behind!!

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New Jennets on the bridge to the quad

 

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