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We have two young mules. One was born on August 12, 2009, and the second on January 23, 2010. The first is a female (as is most common with mules). The first mule is palomino, having a strawberry body with a lighter mane and tail. She is almost six (6) months of age and as of this writing and is 53 inches (135 cm) tall at the shoulders.
The newest mule is a male. He has a brown body with a black mane and tail. It also has the “donkey cross,” a dark band running across the shoulders intersecting with the black mane. This cross marking, also described as a ladder or dun marking, is sometimes related to the biblical story of Mary and Joseph’s travel to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
The new male mule also has black stripes on all of his legs. The stripes on his shoulder and legs are probably an ancient feature of heredity from the Somali or Nubian ass, the most probable original donkeys. At birth, he was thirty-eight (38) inches (96 cm) high at the shoulders. |
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