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A male donkey (jack) crossed with a female horse produces a mule, while a male horse crossed with a jenny produces a hinny. Horse–donkey hybrids are almost always sterile because of a failure of their developing gametes to complete meiosis. [83] The lower progesterone production of the jenny may also lead to early embryonic loss. In addition ...
A hinny is a domestic equine hybrid, the offspring of a male horse (a stallion) and a female donkey (a jenny). It is the reciprocal cross to the more common mule, which is the product of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare).
The American Mammoth Jackstock is a breed of North American donkey, descended from large donkeys imported to the United States from about 1785. George Washington, with Henry Clay and others, bred for an ass that could be used to produce strong work mules. Washington was offering his jacks for stud service by 1788.
'It wasn't Jenny. We never would have allowed that to happen.' No, that wasn't really Jenny the donkey from 'Banshees of Inisherin' at the 2023 Oscars.
The donkey stuck when Thomas Nast published a political cartoon in "Harper's Weekly" in 1874. The cartoon titled "The Third Term Panic" shows a donkey wearing lion's skin scaring away other animals.
[8]: 275 Also called a Spanish jennet. 2. A female donkey. [8]: 275 jenny A female donkey. [1]: 119 Occasionally called a jennet. [8]: 275 jib (AU) To refuse to go forwards, backwards or sideways as required by the driver or rider. [27] jockey The rider of a horse in horse racing. [1]: 119 jog
The word can also be used for other female equine animals, particularly mules and zebras, but a female donkey is usually called a "jenny". A broodmare is a mare used for breeding. Reproductive cycle
The figure is called a “ Palmesel,” or German for “palm donkey,” according to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which on its site recounts how worshippers would lay palms on the ...