Mini Woods

Sep 9, 2022 | Barns

Mini Woods

Mini Woods is home to our group of mini mules, hinnies, one miniature horse who rules the roost, and Clarissa. These equines live on a modified “track system” that mimics the way they would live in the wild. They spend most of their day on this open area and track system. The idea is that movement is what keeps them healthy. They do come in in the afternoons for grooming and inspection and spend their nights under the shelters. They play, tussle, eat hay, sleep and generally live their best life under the watchful eye of our barn staff.

Dorothy

Dorothy Name: Dorothy Type: Miniature Mule Color: Bay Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 12/31/2005 Dorothy is a member of our trio of "Golden Girls," Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose. Saved at the last second from the meat...

Thurston

Petrina, Pico and Pedro are three miniature spotties that are thriving here at RBR. The cutest little family living at the new addition at Hee Haws.

Shorty and Patrick

Petrina, Pico and Pedro are three miniature spotties that are thriving here at RBR. The cutest little family living at the new addition at Hee Haws.

Newt

Newt Name: Newt Type: Miniature Mule Color: Brown Markings: None Sex: Gelding Birthday: 12/30/2012 We had never seen a saddler little group of refugees - Newt, Bucky, and Pinto Bean. Newt was a little black mule who was...

Pedro

Pedro Name: Pedro Type: Donkey Color: Paint Markings: Brown Spots Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/1/2019 Pedro arrived at Red Bell Run with his mother Petrina and older brother Pico. There is just something about those mini...

Clarissa

Clarissa Name: Clarissa Type: Somali Wild Ass? Color: Dun Markings: Zebra stripes on legs & dorsal stripe Sex: Mare Birthday: 12/29/2013 Clarissa is the largest animal in a group of miniature mules, hinnies and horses...

Blanche

Blanche Name: Blanche Type: Miniature Mule Color: Bay Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 12/26/2005 Blanche, named for her white nose, is the oldest member of our trio of "Golden Girls," Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose. Saved at...

Pequito

Pequito Name: Pequito Type: Donkey Color: Grey Markings: Shoulder Cross Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/1/2018 A frantic call came into Ark Watch from Turning Pointe Donkey Rescue about a jenny and newborn foal at a kill pen...

Bucky

Bucky Name: Bucky Type: Miniature Horse Color: Buckskin Markings: Wide blaze & 2 white spots on left side Sex: Gelding Birthday: 12/31/2005 We had never seen a sadder little group of refugees. Bucky had a halter on that...

Zena

A hinny is the opposite of a mule, having a horse father and donkey mother. She enjoys coming up to the barn for grooming and scratches now.

Mini Heaven Barn

Sep 7, 2022 | Barns

Mini Heaven

Mini Heaven is our barn home to special needs miniature horses. Most of the minis in this village require intensive care, treatment, and medications. Behind Mini Heaven are a series of “dry lots” where our minis can spend time with each other just relaxing and another “track” that leads to the trees at the back of the mini area. You’ll often see our minis napping and eating hay at the special mini hay feeder and sometimes racing each other to the barn!

Tiny Tim

Tiny Tim Name: Tiny Tim Type: Miniature Horse Color: White & Palomino Markings: Spotted Sex: Gelding Birthday: 12/31/2007 Tiny Tim is special in many ways! Surrendered to Red Bell Run when his owner's circumstances changed and...

Hannah

Hannah Name: Hannah Type: Miniature Horse Color: Palomino Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2017 Our friend Celine Myers of the Ark Watch Foundation was notified of some minis in need, Clara and her 5-day old foal Justin. At...

Clara

Clara Name: Clara Type: Miniature Horse Color: Buckskin Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2009 When our friend Celine Myers of the Ark Watch Foundation was notified of some minis in need, Clara was at an auction house in...

Pinto Bean

Pinto Bean Name: Pinto Bean Type: Miniature Horse Color: Chestnut & white Tobiano Markings: Small star Sex: Gelding Birthday: 12/30/2009 We had never seen a sadder little group of refugees. Pinto Bean hadn't seen a farrier in...

Desi

Desi Name: Desi Type: Miniature Horse Color: Pinto Markings: Star Sex: Gelding Birthday: 12/29/1999 Desi is part of a mini due named "Desi and Luci" of course! Desi was destined to be "big cat food" and had been purchased for that...

Justin

Justin Name: Justin Bieber Type: Miniature Horse Color: Flaxen Chestnut Markings: Snowflake spotting on rump Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/1/2017 Justin was a 5-day-old tiny miniature horse curled up like a puppy in the dirt at an...

Luci

Luci Name: Luci Type: Miniature Horse Color: Black Markings: White lacing pattern scarring on back Sex: Mare Birthday: 12/28/2005 Sweet little Luci came to Red Bell Run several years ago. An elderly miniature horse breeder in...

Flicka

Flicka Name: Flicka Type: Miniature Horse Color: Sorrel Markings: Star, Stripe, Snip Sex: Mare Birthday: 12/31/2009 Flicka is a sorrel miniature horse with a flaxen mane and tail. She came to Red Bell Run healthy and well cared...

Hazel

Hazel Name: Hazel Type: Miniature Horse Color: Varnish Roan Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2012 Our Hazel is a miniature horse with dwarf characteristics: a malformed jaw which can make it difficult to eat, poorly formed pelvis, back legs...

Mini Sugar Shack

Sep 9, 2022 | Barns

Mini Sugar Shack

Our Mini Sugar Shack was originally home to two lovebirds, Nathan and Delilah. The two were inseparable! Unfortunately, they have both passed over the rainbow bridge. Now, the Mini Sugar Shack is home to miniature horses Daphne and Snowflake.

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Daphne

Daphne Name: Daphne Type: Miniature Horse Color: Black Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2011 Daphne is an adorable black miniature horse. She was sent through a Mississippi auction with her foal, Hannah. The Ark Watch...

Snowflake

Snowflake Name: Snowflake Type: Pony Color: Grey Markings: None Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/1/1996 Snowflake is a recent arrival at Red Bell Run. This adorable miniature horse came with several problems. Among them found, Cushing's...

Silo Barn

Sep 7, 2022 | Barns

Silo Barn

Our Silo Barn is home to “land of the misfits”! That’s because we have one of each type of equine living here in relative harmony: 2 Shetland ponies, 1 miniature donkey, 1 paint, 1 elderly mule, and 1 quarter horse cross mare.

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Tali

Tali Name: Tali Type: Miniature Donkey Color: Brown Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2019

Hallie

Hallie Name: Hallie Type: Shetland Pony Color: Chestnut Markings: Star & Strip Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2010

Cody

Cody Name: Cody Type: Shetland Pony Color: Chestnut & White Tobiano Markings: Strip & Snip Sex: Gelding Birthday: 05/13/2018 In August 2018, a series of photos depicting some terribly emaciated and neglected mini horses...

Cassie

Cassie Name: Cassie Type: Horse Color: Chestnut Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2010 In August 2021, Celine Myers of the Ark Watch Foundation saw a video of a pony mare and her days' old spotted mule baby in an auction photo. The foal was...

Winslow

Winslow Name: Winslow Type: Standard Mule Color: Dark Bay Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/1/1998 In 2016, Winslow was rescued by a well-meaning lady from Alabama when she saw that he was shipping to slaughter. He was one-eyed, half- (well,...

Trailside Barn

Sep 8, 2022 | Barns

Trailside Barn

Trailside was our original nursery barn, but is now home to our smaller donkey herd. Here you’ll find Nick, Jasmine, Moonshine, Ruby, Gracie, Ella Grace, Scooter, Gus, and April.

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Scooter

Scooter Name: Scooter Type: Standard Donkey Color: White Markings: None Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/1/2016 Scooter is the newest addition to our Trailside barn. He was one of the Bostic 9, seized by Rutherford County Animal Control in a...

Ruby

Ruby Name: Ruby Type: Standard Donkey Color: Chestnut Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2016 Ruby came to Red Bell Run as part of a horrific abuse case in Chesnee, South Carolina. Ruby was very suspicious of people at first, but is...

Gus

Gus Name: Gus Type: Standard Donkey Color: White Markings: None Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/1/2017 Gus has quite a tale to tell. He was loaded on a trailer heading to auction and an unknown fate when the driver stopped at a gas station. An...

Ella Grace & Gracie

Ella Grace & Gracie Name: Ella Grace Type: Standard Donkey Color: Red Markings: Star Sex: Mare Birthday: 12/10/2019 Name: Gracie Type: Standard Donkey Color: Red Roan Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2014...

Moonshine

Moonshine Name: Moonshine Type: Standard Donkey Color: Brown Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2019 Moonshine came to Red Bell Run as part of a horrific abuse case. Her sire, Buddy Jackson, had been pulled down a road by an ATV,...

Nick

Nick Name: Nick Type: Miniature Donkey Color: Grey Markings: None Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/1/1984 Nick is one of our much-loved miniature donkeys! He was rescued by Circle of Friends in Oklahoma City, OK from the dog catcher. He had...

Jazmine and April

Jazmine and April Name: Jazmine Type: Donkey Color: Black Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 11/26/2017 Name: April Type: Donkey Color: Brown/White Paint Markings: Blaze Sex: Gelding Birthday:...

Centerview

Sep 8, 2022 | Barns

Centerview

Centerview overlooks the pastures on the north side of the upper farm and is a two-stall gentleman’s quarters. Here, our collection of Hackney ponies live in harmony. Three little Hackney mares came to Red Bell Run from the Humane Society of North Texas and unbeknownst to any of us, all three were pregnant! Their babies (now 3 years old!) still live at Centerview.

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Lillie

Lillie Name: Lillie Type: Hackney Pony Color: Black Markings: 4 White Socks & Blaze Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2009

Jasmine

Jasmine Name: Jasmine Type: Hackney Pony Color: Black Markings: 4 White Socks Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2010

Violet

Violet Name: Violet Type: Hackney Pony Color: Black Markings: Star & 4 white socks Sex: Mare Birthday: 1/1/2008

Aspen

Aspen Name: Aspen Type: Hackney Pony Color: Bay Markings: Star, snip Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/6/2018 Aspen is one of the most unusual equines at Red Bell Run. He is a Hackney cross pony with beautiful markings and incredible blue...

Apache

Apache Name: Apache Pine Type: Hackney Pony Color: Buckskin Markings: Star, two hind socks Sex: Gelding Birthday: 1/21/2018 Our stunning Apache is part of a small herd of Hackney ponies. On the run from a bad situation in Texas,...

Amy

Amy Name: Amy Type: Hackney Pony Color: Black Markings: None Sex: Mare Birthday: 12/16/2017

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