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In article <565@pedsga.UUCP>, lae@pedsga.UUCP writes:
> In article <479@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP writes:
> >I'm willing to be educated on this one.  My dictionary says of "mule"
> >	"a hybrid between a horse and an ass."
> >and of "hinny"
> >	"a hybrid between a stallion and a she-ass -- compare MULE."
> >From this it would seem that a hinny _is_ a mule. But I can't draw any
> >conclusion about the sex of the offspring.
> >Who can enlighten the city slicker?
> 
> When I lived on a ranch in Arizona we called the male mules "mules" and
> the female mules "jennies."
> Never heard of a hinny, though.  Thanks for enlightening ME.
> 
> Leslie

Although I have never lived on a farm myself, both of my parents
and both sets of grandparents did. It was from them that I learned
about the difference between mules and hinnies.

The mule is the result from breeding a female horse with a male ass.
The hinny is the result from breeding a male horse with a female ass.
This is a lot more difficult to produce, since the female mule is small,
and her hinny offspring is often too large for normal, unaided birth.
I believe that both mules and hinnies are sterile, although I could be
wrong.

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Anita K. Laux
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