English/Irish Donkeys NZ

05/11/2024

Cruise in his fluffy baby coat. He should lose a fair bit of his baby coat this summer. A lot of brushing for me in the meantime. Thank goodness Brynn and Ben won some new brushes at the dog show last weekend for me to use. The dogs aren't so keen on two of the brushes but the donkeys love them.

03/11/2024

Flick over to Donnbrae Kennels to see how our weekend of showing went with the corgis.
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Breeding Welsh Cardigan Corgis for showing, working stock dogs and pets. We are located in Otatara near Invercargill.

01/11/2024

We currently have Cruise available. Well that is if my neighbour down the road that is grazing our jennies due to our wet weather is willing to let him come home. Cruise is soaking up the extra attention he is getting. We also had our vet visit on Tuesday and it looks like we will be welcoming a surprise foal sometime in the Autumn. Mia didn't appear to cycle last spring however we left her with Jaxson in the hope that she might hold a service. Sometimes a jenny if they don't take in the spring they will in the autumn. Foaling will start in November and it looks like it will be ongoing for a few months.

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25/10/2024

We have two geldings for sale. They will be listed on my website once I have updated photos. Darcy is dark brown (Darcy is now heading to the west coast) and Cruise is broken coloured. Darcy is 21 months old and Cruise is 11 months old. Darcy leads well and Cruise has had a few practise runs and did well. Both are well handled.

17/09/2024

To check out the latest new arrival pop over to Donnbrae Kennels
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26/08/2024

We are delighted to announce our latest purchase. This is Rowan straight off the transporter. Rowan has settled in with the herd like she has always been here. She will be going to the breeding paddock with Flaxton Green Jaxson Brown at the end of September and we look forward to next season in the hope of a lovely foal.

18/07/2024

If you want to see lots of puppy photos from Copperleaf Cardigan Welsh Corgis have a look at Donnbrae Kennels on Facebook.

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04/07/2024

We are switching all the corgi information over to Donnbrae Kennels on Facebook as we now have our name registered with Dogs New Zealand. This page will be for our English/Irish donkeys and the livestock we run at Donnbrae Farm. Our Website will be undergoing a transformation too.

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06/06/2024

Oh how I love the patter of little corgi paws. Loulou and Brynn have some half siblings.

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05/06/2024

Sassy Lass and Chantily Lace arrived home just over a week ago from their summer holiday romances which turned into a couple of months longer than we expected. Both jennies have returned positive pregnancy tests with Sassy due approx 29 November and lacey approx 4 January. Exciting six months ahead watching their tummies expanding.

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04/06/2024

Totally disappointed in the Donkey & Mule Society of NZ for going through the breed registries for the donkeys in NZ and changing data so that a number of English/Irish donkeys are now recorded as their breed being New Zealand donkeys. Their breed is English/Irish as the original donkeys imported into NZ were from England and Ireland. Also the partbred English/Irish donkeys with percentages of EI blood eg 50%, 75% & 87.5% are also English/Irish donkeys.
People that do not understand how to use breeding software and certainly do not understand bloodlines have no place being involved with keeping these records.

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12/05/2024

A big congratulations to Copperleaf Cardigan Welsh Corgis with their young dog Copperleaf King of the Cosmos (Rhys) winning Puppy of the Group and then going on to win Best Puppy in Show at the Auckland Kennel Council Championship show. This is one of the biggest dog shows in the country. Rhys is a littermate to my girls.

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30/04/2024

Every so often I hear from people saying there are no donkeys for sale. There are currently two small donkeys available on the Donkey & Mule Society website.
One in the North Island and one in the South Island.

Her sire is Malakai Ch Changes (imp Aus AMMD & his sire and dam were both imported from USA). Her dam is Windy Ridges Daisy 

25/04/2024

Amy with Ollie today. Ollie is a beautiful well mannered donkey

11/11/2023

24 hours old. A lovely purebred EnglishIrish jack foal. Would be suitable for a stud jack as he has a breeding co-efficient of 5. Has 7 generations of bloodlines going back to England and Ireland.