About CoaStable's Program

Our Zebra, Zola - the dam of  minizonkeys Zany, Zen, and Zing -  was born the night of June 14 -15, 2010, near Dallas, TX.   CoaStable brought her to her permanent home in Florida at the age of 4 weeks.   Zola and Zany graze on 4 connected pastures, along with 2 neutered minidonkeys, Pixster and Matilda, and a retired racehorse, Fortune Coast.

What CoaStable has successfully accomplished is to breed Zola to miniature donkeys instead of full-sized donkeys. The first result, after a 13 month uneventful pregnancy, was Zany, a playful male born on May 30, 2016.   Zola was not bred again until 2018 in order to observe and learn more about developing minizonkeys. After a 12 month-plus pregnancy, Zola delivered Zen on September 30, 2019.  

Zola was not bred again until the spring of 2022.  After a 13 month gestation, Zing was born on July 1, 2023.  

Our active sire is Dom, a near-white miniature donkey. He is pre-deceased by his full brother. Both Dom and Jack are responsible for siring all our minizonkeys.

 Our unique minizonkeys, Zany, Zen, and Zing can also be called other terms that are used to describe zebra/donkey hybrids -- zebroid, zedonk, zebronkey, zebrinny, zebrula, zebrass, or zebradonk.   Inasmuch as miniature zonkeys are rare, there are no names yet developed for them.  Therefore, we refer to them as a miniature zonkeys or minizonkeys.

What makes our miniature zonkeys so noteworthy are two factors: first, generally such hybrids are produced by a male zebra and female donkey.  Previously, it was believed that because of a discrepancy in the chromosomes between female zebras and miniature donkeys, it would not be possible for a zebra to conceive.  Secondly, there are virtually no miniature zonkeys produced in the world.  African wild asses, that are nearly extinct, can be confused with minizonkeys. Those animals can be found in various zoos around the world.