Country Music's Eli Barsi is a beautiful 2005 dark brown jennet with light points and is the matron of the jennet herd at Appalachian Farmstead. She is by Country Music's Garth Brooks and out of Capstone Shadow Dancer. Eli was purchased from Country Music's Miniature Donkeys as a weanling and has an outstanding show record, as well as an outstanding record producing foals that have done very well in the show arena.

Eli has won many NMDA championships over the years, including standing Grand Champion Jennet at the Tennessee State Fair and NMDA Reserve National Champion Jennet at Shelbyville, Tennessee. This latter recognition was especially notable, as she won the Five Years and Older Jennets class and Reserve Champion Jennet after producing three foals. All of Eli's eight foals have done extremely well in the show arena, winning Grand and Reserve Championships at the Great Celebration Mule and Donkey Show and the Tennessee State Fair over the years. Eli has been permanently retired from the show arena and is continuing to produce winning foals for Appalachian Farmstead.

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Farmstead's Lily May Ledford is a very cute 26.5 inch brown jennet who has captured the hearts of young and old alike! Lily was shown in four shows as a yearling, and she placed first in two shows and second in two shows. We have had numerous offers both in the United States and from other countries to purchase Lily; however, we felt that her small size could be problematic if she were to be bred to the wrong jack.

We also always take Lily to community events whenever a donkey is requested, and she is always the center of attention at these events. She loves children and will follow them around like a puppy dog, and her size is just right for small children. For these reasons, Lily will be a part of the Appalachian Farmstead family for years to come!

Lily is expecting her first foal in May, 2025, by Farmstead's Cotton Top Mounts, our 28" red jack now owned by the Ames family in War Trace, TN. This will be a much anticipated, very tiny addition to our donkey herd!

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Dixie Lee is an August, 2021 dark red jennet who looked like top show material the day that she was born. She is the first foal from our frosted spotted white jennet, Farmstead's Hattie Hasseltine, and her sire is our sorrel jack, Country Music's Rusty Weir. Dixie Lee did very well at her only two shows in 2022, and she is expected to continue to do well in the show arena until the time that she joins our select brood jennet band in the future.

2024 Update: Dixie Lee just placed first in a very large Two-Year Old Jennet class at the NMDA National Show at Ozark Empire Fair!

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Appalachian Farmstead was fortunate to purchase Frontier Legends Ruby Stone towards the end of 2017. She produced two beautiful foals for us before her untimely death in 2021. Ruby was a well-known halter champion, having been named both NMDA and ADMS National Champion Jennet, as well as multiple other championships over a show career spanning the years 2006-2009. Ruby was a beautiful 2005 sorrel jennet by Short ASSets Starfire and out of Frontier Legends Lizzie Johnson Williams.

Frontier Legends Cinna, Ruby's 2013 foal, has continued her mother's winning ways by achieving 2016 NMDA National Champion Jennet/Best of Breed, 2017 NMDA Reserve National Champion Jennet, 2019 ADMS National Champion Donkey, 2022 NMDA National Champion Jennet/Best of Breed, and 2024 NMDA National Champion Jennet. Ruby's 2017 jack foal, jack foal, Frontier Legends Kid Curry, was named the Grand Champion Jack at the 2018 Fort Worth Livestock Show. Ruby's 2018 foal named Farmstead's Popcorn Sutton and sired by our sorrel jack, Country Music's Rusty Weir, was named ADMS Reserve Champion Donkey at 9 months of age, as well as being named Junior Champion Donkey for the two shows at which he has been shown! Her last foal born to our farm in 2020 is Farmstead's Ruby Iris, who is also sired by Country Music's Rusty Weir and has been named the NMDA 2021 National Champion Yearling Jennet, as well as Reserve Junior Champion at the Music City Show in 2022!

Appalachian Farmstead is fortunate to own two superb jennet foals produced by Ruby Stone that will continue to pass Ruby's outstanding genetics to future foals!

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