Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue

80 Nevada Burros Heading
to Tehachapi!

UPDATE:11/15/2009
Mark began feeding carrots to the newly separated groups.  Small carrots thrown around the pen is the easiest way to slowly begin the gentling process and it helps the burros to overcome their fear of people.

UPDATE: 11/14/2009
Mark spent the day separating the mature Jacks from the jennets and babies.

UPDATE: 11/13/2009
80 Wild Burros arrived at 2:00 am at Peaceful Valley's Tehachapi Ranch at 2:00 am.  A big rig livestock hauler was used for 64 adult donkeys and PVDR's trailer was used to haul the babies. 

UPDATE: 11/12/2009
Mark and Amy Meyers got started at 3:00 and drove to the Sheldon Antelope Refuge.  Began loading the burros at 7:00 am with help from the US Fish and Wildlife Staff.  Mark had to individually load each burro by sheer strength as none of them were willing to load on their own.

UPDATE: 11/11/2009
Mark and Amy Meyers drove to Winnemucca, NV to get an early start on loading the 80 burros.

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Peaceful Valley has once again been asked to step up and take in burros from the Sheldon Antelope Range in Northern Nevada.  These burros range along Highway 140, a 2 lane road with 70 MPH speed limits.

To help reduce the inevitable number of burros killed along this road, Peaceful Valley has managed the lion's share of the burros that we have captured in the Refuge since 2003.

This year, US Fish and Wildlife Service has hired a contractor to round up the burros and we have been asked to take them in, once again.  The capture has netted 78 burros plus 2 babies that have been born in the holding pens.

While 80 burros is a large number for any rescue to handle, Peaceful Valley is more than capable of accommodating them.  We do however need your help for some expenses associated with the transportation and care of the new arrivals.

We are scheduling the transportation company to meet Mark Meyers at the Sheldon on November 13th.  Mark will trailer the Moms,  Babies and special needs burros in his rig while the majority of the donkeys will be transported in a large livestock hauler.

Once the burros are safely at our Tehachapi Ranch, we will need to perform blood tests to ensure that they do not carry any infectious disease.  These results are submitted to California's Agricultural Department.  We also have to vaccinate, microchip and de-worm all of the burros. And in keeping with our No Breeding policy, we will have to castrate all of the males.

Here are some of the expenses that we need your help with:

Transportation Costs:            $3,000.00

Portable Livestock Ramp:    $3,200.00

Blood Work:                               $1,520.00

Micro-Chip/Vaccines            $2,000.00

Castrations:                                $6,400.00

 

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Our original T-shirt artwork from
the Sheldon Project 2003.

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Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue
SHELDON BURRO PROJECT
PO Box 2210
Tehachapi, CA 93581All donations are tax deductible under
IRS Code 501(c)(3) Tax ID #77-0562800