A mule is created by mating a mare, a female horse, with a jack, a male donkey. During the week, Doxey plans to bring a young mule and its mother to the fairgrounds, in addition to the three large ...

Mule breeding was tricky. For example, jacks often ignored mares, especially if they’d already been exposed to the wiles of jennies, their own females.

Donkeys and horses can interbreed and produce offspring which are almost always sterile. Most commonly, a jack breeds with a mare to produce a mule, which has big donkey-like ears.

Breeding basics A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. Female horses are bred to jacks, or male donkeys. The Knutsons have three jacks and 11 brood mares, or female horses.

When the King heard of General Washington’s quest for the best breeding stock of mules, as a gesture to the famous man, he sent him two of his finest Spanish Jacks as a “Royal Gift.” ...

The UC Davis community recently lost one of its most venerable members, the 29-year-old donkey Action Jackson, who died Jan. 6 after standing at stud at the Horse Barn for two decades — siring well ...

Missouri soon became the "mule state" - the leader in jack stock and mule breeding. Missouri mules were used by the American pioneers to drain swamps, plough pastures, haul timber and take people ...

An Australian mule fanatic who imported an American mammoth donkey for his breeding programme hopes to raise the profile of mules in his country. Queensland-based David Scholl, who has always kept ...

A horse stud in the Northern Territory has started breeding miniature mules, which is a win for boosting numbers of the rare animal and a win for cuteness.