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An adult male donkey is a jack or jackass, an adult female is a jenny or jennet, [4] [5] [6] and an immature donkey of either sex is a foal. [6] Jacks are often mated with female horses (mares) to produce mules ; the less common hybrid of a male horse (stallion) and jenny is a hinny .
The hinny is the offspring of a stallion and a jenny or female donkey, and is thus the reciprocal cross to the more common mule foaled by a jack (male donkey) out of a mare. Like the mule, the hinny displays hybrid vigour (heterosis). [1]: 36
[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
'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.
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 mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse.It is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). [1] [2] The horse and the donkey are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes; of the two possible first-generation hybrids between them, the mule is easier to obtain and more common than the hinny, which is the offspring of a male horse ...
SFGATE reported on Friday that taking care of the three donkeys annually cost local taxpayers $25,000, and an extra $15,000 in 2024 as a result of Perry’s medical bills. Palo Alto Mayor Greer ...