“Look after your sheep and cattle as carefully as you can.” Psalm 27:23

Buffalo Feathers Farm

Buffalo Feathers Farm began in 1984 as a mobile farm. That’s when Keith and Amanda Dobbs met at a Texas college, married, and started moving chicken coops around on top of their car (after dark, of course) from home to home. They invented “chicken express” long before the franchise in 1988 with moving backyard birds.

The chickens expanded into Barbado Sheep, a Shetland pony named Smokey, ducks, pheasants, dove, turkeys, guineas, dogs, cats, and bunny rabbits.

The mobile farm moved from Texas to Washington to Los Angeles to Nashville to Asheville to New York City to Kansas City to California to Oklahoma City.

In 2021, the Dobbs purchased a small, rural acreage in the hills of Meeker, Oklahoma, a community with just over one thousand country folks.

Shortly after a fencing project, they rescued a Belted Galloway cow named Moon Pie. Incidentally, all the animals and birds on Buffalo Feathers Farm have food names. The wooded acreage added a red Belted Galloway heifer named Cream Pie, sheep, goats, horses, and donkeys.

As vegetarians, the Dobbs operate BFF as a safe sanctuary for animals and birds and frequently welcome rescues.

Today, BFF has vegetable gardens, a small vineyard, orchard, herb gardens, and flower gardens. Eggs from BFF hens are shared with neighbors and friends.

The Dobbs have full-time professional employment but use the gentleman’s farm as relaxation therapy, a safe, relaxing haven. BFF has been used as a wedding venue, family reunion destination, and gathering spot for friends, their two children, their spouses, and three grandsons, Roman, Cal Henry, and Cole, and granddaughter Everly James.

The Farm Hands

A man with a bandaged arm holding a bucket with tools, standing outdoors near a fence and greenery.
A woman with gray hair wearing a pink top standing in front of purple flowering plants outdoors.

Keith Dobbs

Raised on a beef cattle ranch in Sequoyah County in eastern Oklahoma, and with a career in healthcare administration and marketing in Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York City, he has dreamed of this stage in life.  Now he gathers eggs, hand feeds the herd, and harvests Muscadine grapes.

Amanda Dobbs

Growing up in apartments, Amanda has a touch of Eva Gabor in the 1950s comedy Green Acres.  Even as a corporate human resources professional for a large west-coast healthcare chain, she rolls up her sleeves to bottle feed baby goats, plant lemon cucumbers, and nurture zinnias and celosia.

Biscuit & GRAVY

Biscuit and Gravy are actually Re-Biscuit and Re-Gravy. We started out with two pups from the Taulman family in Meeker. After a few months at the farm, they suddenly disappeared. Animals and birds started to disappear to preditors. Good family friends….the Sanfords from Vian…..needed to rehome their brother/sister duo of Great Pyrenees. We chatted. They delivered. We immediately fell in love with the pair. They rest during the day and work security during the night.

A close-up of a smiling donkey with a gray coat, surrounded by other sheep and animals in a farm setting.
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Applejack

AppleJack is BFF’s sweetheart.  He hasn’t been told that he’s a donkey instead of a puppy.  He came to BFF from a farm near Rush Springs, Oklahoma, that had sold and needed placement of several of their treasures.  He loves to eat snacks out of your hand, and will follow you around the world just to get a hug or a pat.  AppleJack is most likely a Provence donkey known for their sweet temperament yet skills of being a guard animal for predators.

Moon Pie

Meet Moon Pie. She’s an approximately 1200-pound Belted Galloway.  Known for their deep rich black coat with a white belted mark around the midriff, the Galloway are a heritage breed of cattle from southern Scotland who grazed the upland pastures and moorlands.  Moon Pie was scheduled for butcher but was rescued and brought to Buffalo Feathers Farm where she delivered a bull calf almost three months after her arrival.  She’s the matriarch of the farm.

Adorable small dog with brown and black fur lying on a couch, looking at the camera.

Fettle

Named after a Yorkshire cheese similar to feta, Fettle is an eight-year-old Yorkshire Terrier. He may only be nine pounds but he’s large and in charge. He patrols the backyard, attacks the UPS delivery people, and can corner a raccoon.

BUTTERSCOTCH

Butterscotch came to Buffalo Feathers Farms from a farm in Vian, Oklahoma. He’s a Scottish Highland, a breed known for their shaggy hair and long horns. There’s a funny story about his arrival to the farm as two friends were helping transport him in a horse trailer….and the trailer had two flat tires on a Sunday afternoon. He arrived safe and sound and has been making his presence known every since.

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