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Mrs. Dixon develops such ah attachment to her animals, she hates to part with them, though she has sold samples ftjom some of her herds. J Keeping them, however, cannot be cheap. She employs a! farm manager, Buddy Gibson, and uses a farrier to trim the feet of almost 60 donkeys. “It takes him three d£ys,” she says. | Feed is another expense, especially given that the animals have been eating hay since last summer.
Board fences stretch across the rolling pastures that make up much of her 200-acre farm. Woven-wire fences define pens ahd runs. The animals are grouped by species, each in its own pasture. > Camels and water buffalo prefer the weeds to grass, so she controls weeds by rotating the animal groups through her pastures. ; She keeps the Simmental :attle at two nearby farms, to uihich she periodically moves
Red Brahmin cattle and donkeys by trailer.
Mrs. Dixon lives in a large brick home with granddaughter Melissa, a tiny 8-week-old Miki puppy, and a large cat.
In a pen nearby are three large, friendly Anatolian shepherds that watch over the livestock. “They go after foxes and coyotes and in calving time won’t let even a buzzard land in the fields,” Mrs. Dixon says. “It’s instinctive; they don’t need to be taught.”
Belying their reputation for bad tempers and nastiness,
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