Donkeys and Mules

Mammoth donkeys must measure at least 54 inches at the wither (top of the shoulder) for jennets (females) and 56 inches at the wither for males (jack or gelding).

spinning jenny and water frame

*Skinny Mini*

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A Dony or a Ponkey!

The offspring of a horse and a donkey is called a mule. The mules are usually infertile because they have 63 chromosomes.

Because they have a backbone which determines that it is a vertebrate

They can start having foals around the age of 2 years. Miniature donkeys can live to be 30 years old or older. That being said, the average mini donkey can have foals until they are around the age of 25. But it also depends on your donkey's health and ability to conceive a foal.

The moral of "The Donkey and the Lapdog'" fable is that you should be happy with your skills and lot in life. In the fable, the donkey attempts to act like a lapdog because he is jealous of the lapdog's life, but it backfires because he is a donkey and not a dog. As a donkey, he learns he is best suited for field work and should stick to that.

Although many donkeys are the familiar gray-dun color, there are many other coat shades. Most donkeys, regardless of coat color, will have dorsal stripes and shoulder crosses, dark ear marks, as well as the light points - white muzzle and eye rings, and white belly and inner leg.

Colors in the donkey range from the gray shades of gray-dun to brown, bay, black, roan (red and gray), variants of sorrel (red), Ivory, Frosted/spotted White, and a unique Spotted pattern.

A castrated male donkey is known as a gelding.

* They weren't invented * they were made 6000 years ago

No mules cannot vomit. This is due to the cardiac sphincter located at the bottom of the esophagus, this sphincter only moves one way, allowing food only to travel into the stomach and not back into the esophagus.

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A Bethlehem donkey developed a black stripe down its back and one across its front shoulders creating a cross. These donkys only developed this after carrying Mary to Bethehem to give birth to Jesus Christ. This is a proven fact. WTB

horse is translated 'un cheval' in French. This is a masculine noun, used generally for any horse. If you want to refer specifically to a male horse, it is called 'un étalon', and the female is called 'une jument'.

About the size of 2 average children fists.

The mule has 63 chromosomes. A donkey has 31 pairs and a horse 32 pairs so the mule or hinny inherits 31 from its donkey parent (usually the father) and 32 from its horse parent. The fact that the donkey has fewer chromosomes than the horse is thought to be the reason why hinny-breeding (where the father is the horse) is more difficult, resulting in a high rate of spontaneous abortion. If two species are to be crossed, therefore, the male should be the one with fewer chromosomes.

Donkeys have nine (9) nipples. Not sure about the horse.

Donkey and horses are related but not the same species. Horses bred to horses produce horses, donkeys bred to donkeys produce donkeys. You may be thinking of a mule, which is a hybrid cross between the donkey and mule.

Donkey is called as Gadha in Bangladesh Language.

The mule is an herbivore, it eats only plants.

They usually don't run unless something or someone sets it off.

If that happens (Hopefully it won't) they do run very fast.

When they are out on pasture and gallop through the field, they run faster that a donkey and ponies but not a lot faster than horses. Depending on the animals size and fitness levels they will run faster than some horses.

The sound of a donkey is EEEeEeEeEEeOOOONNnkKkHHHh.

It might do but it all depends on the number of alleles the parents share. No female donkey should be allowed to mate with a closely related male.