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What do you call the offspring of a horse donkey cross?
The product of a horse/donkey breeding is a mule.
Is a Liger real or fake?
It is real. It is the sterile offspring of cross breeding between a lion and a tiger. Much like a mule is the sterile offspring of a horse and a donkey.
What does covering a horse mean?
Covering a horse typically refers to the act of breeding the horse, often done by placing a mare with a stallion for mating. It is a term commonly used in the horse breeding industry to describe the process of mating horses to produce offspring.
Organisms must be of the same species in order to breed and produce offspring?
That's correct. In order to produce offspring, organisms generally need to be of the same species since they share similar genetic material and can produce fertile offspring. Breeding between different species often leads to sterile offspring, like mules from the crossing of a horse and a donkey.
What is a breeding horse called?
A breeding horse is typically referred to as a stallion if male or a mare if female. These horses are specifically used for reproduction purposes in breeding programs.
What is a broodmare?
A broodmare is a female horse used for breeding purposes to produce foals. These mares are carefully selected based on their bloodlines, conformation, and performance to pass on favorable traits to their offspring. Broodmares play a crucial role in the horse breeding industry.
What the the Irish horse breeding and American horse breeding have in common?
They both are about horses.
How is a mule obtained and why can't it have offspring?
Mules are "obtained" by a jack (male donkey) breeding with a mare (female horse). Hinnies are offspring of a stallion (male horse) mating with a jenny (female donkey). Mules cannot have offspring because of the different chromosomal numbers between horses and donkeys. See the related questions below for more info.
How popular is horse breeding in the US?
Horse breeding in the US is quite popular. Horse breeding can be a hobby or a profession to some people. The US horse industry is a $100 billion dollar industry and a good majority of that money comes from breeding.
What is a Male horse for breeding?
A male horse used for breeding is known as a stallion. Stallions are selected based on their pedigree, conformation, and performance to pass on desirable traits to their offspring. They play a key role in continuing and improving the breed.
A male horse kept for breeding?
Is called a Gelding. This mean that they can't produce foals. Actually, that is 100% incorrect. A male horse that is used for breeding is called a stallion (also referred to as a stud).
Mules are the offspring from female horeses and male?
A mule results from breeding a female horse (mare) with a male donkey (jack donkey or jackass). When the mother is a jenny donkey and the father a horse stallion, the baby is called a hinny.
