Is a Bethlehem donkey a miniature donkey?
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'.
How many chromosomes does a donkey have?
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.
Could there be a donkey with out a 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.
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.
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.
Mules are sterile since they are a hybrid of a horse and a donkey: whenever members of two different species reproduce, their offspring(that is, IF they produce offspring, and there are very few cases, such as the mule) produce hybrids possessing qualities of both parents but unable to pass down their genes to their posterity, since they can't have any.
A donkey cart is simply a small to medium sized cart which is pulled by a donkey. Although these carts can be made of various materials they are most often constructed from wood.
Are donkeys good protection against coyotes?
Because when a donkey brays the pitch is really high and hurts their ears, also donkeys will chase or charge at the coyote to scare it off.
When should you castrate a donkey?
If the male is not going to be used for breeding then any time after the testes have decended into the scrotum is suitable. Most are done in the 3 months to 1 year old range.
What is the live age of a donkey?
Donkeys don't need much care, they dont eat too much and are suited by just grass/weeds. They do need to get their hooves trimmed every so often, idk the amount of time but you will be able to tell very easily and a Farrier will trim them for you. Donkeys are wonderful pets and they dont over eat like horses might.
How many decibels is a donkeys bray?
That depends on the size of the donkey. I would expect a 14hh donkey in a quiet area to be able to call to another 3 miles away.
How do you take care of a newborn donkey?
First Watch to see if the mother accepts the foal if she does let nature take it's course! Unless the donkey seems listless and sick don't worry. From my experience on their first day they should NOT eat solid food but SHOULD jump and gait about. They may even rear.
A donkey is part of which group?
Donkeys belong to the odd-toed ungulates (horse, tapir and rhino families), also called the perissodactyls. This group, in turn, is related to the elephants and the sub-ungulates (sirenians and hyraxes). The horse family itself is a genus called Equus and the Linnaean name for the donkey is E. asinus. The closest relatives to the horses are the tapirs, which the late Barbara Woodhouse described as "prehistoric horses".
The coat of the horse as well as it's mane and tail are referred to as hair.
Yes, mules can be either male or female. They are anatomically normal, but male mules are sterile. Most female mules are also sterile, but there are rare cases where a female mule can give birth.
Some people have heard that mules are male and hinnies are female. This is incorrect. Both mules (donkey jack x horse mare) and hinnies (horse stallion x donkey jennet) can be either male or female.
What happens when a donkey and horse mate?
because the donkey a.k.a jackass is apart of the horse family.
donkeys are about the size between a cow and a goat, mammoth donkeys on the other hand are as big as a horse
What is the reverse of a mule?
A mule is the offspring resulting from the mating of a male donkey with a female horse, or mare. When the 'opposite' pairing of the parents' genders occurs; that is, the mating of a male horse, or stallion, with a female donkey, known as a "jenny" the resulting offspring is more appropriately referred to as a "hinny". The characteristics of a mule versus a hinny are indeed different, as is found in other crossbred animals where the parents' gender has such an effect with one notable example being the difference between a tigon, or a liger, each the offspring of a tiger and lion pair.