[XLmules]

I worked for many rescues in FL and was a Police Officer there as well….if it is not in the written contract, I am with you and others…..is not binding. I can understand their hopes that someone will not over work one of their animals, but the short turn around in their approval – did they do a farm visit by any chance? – makes me wonder about anything that they said verbally……Pulling a ground sled or a log or two would be good for that very handsome boy and I am sure that you are like we are….my horses, mules and Jackstock get better care than I give myself:-)

[XLmules]

I would like to put 2 cents worth in about the Onager….if the Onager is a species (yes) and the donkey is a species (yes) and you combine the two the resulting pairing would produce a hybrid….now, since most hybrids are sterile (mule and hinney), would the donkey X Onager hybrid be fertile?…..hhhhmmm. The “Standard of Ur” an art piece believed to be from about 3,600 BC depicts Sumerian soldiers in a chariot being drawn by four mules…there has been discussion about whether these are actually Onagers instead of mules, but I would have to say probably not since the Onager has not been domesticated as long as the donkey or horse (and the animals pictured look to be too tall to be Onagers)…..kind of like breeding zebras which a local guy here does….when he sells the weanlings, and they try to load them by taking panels and slowly closing them in towards the trailer, they run into things and break their necks…it is sad…..so, I don’t think that the Onager has the centuries of domestication in it’s background to be a suitable sire for a donkey X Onager X horse hybrid – but this is just my opinion:-) Something else occurred to me also, interspecies breeding is rare in nature. A jack is usually a “mare jack” or a “jennet jack” – a jack has to be trained to breed mares as this is outside of his innate desire to breed his “own kind”. The Moors would take a horse foal and kill it and put the skin on a jack colt and give him to the mare to raise to have him breed mares in the future, so if Onagers are relatively mean little devils, it would be interesting to see how breeding would be accomplished “in hand”.

[XLmules]

How is Abigail doing? We have an Abigail mule too:-) Would love to hear how she is progressing.

[XLmules]

Hi Dave, I am new to this site also….I ride a Percheron mule named George. His nickname is “The Couch” as he is such a stable ride for me. We have Clydesdale, Belgian and Friesian/Percheron cross draft mule babies and gaited saddle mule babies….I love them all, but have always loved the drafts:-)

[XLmules]

Carl, great pictures of my favorite hybrid! Looks like everything went pretty smoothly:-)

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