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Alright, welcome back.
In this lecture we're going to cover some
different breeds of donkeys found throughout the world.
Now, just really quickly I want to do a quick review.
Just so, you kind of remember where donkeys originated from
and coming from two, you know, regions of the world.
The Asiatic wild asses, and then the African wild asses.
And in a lot of the pictures you'll see in this
lecture, you will be able to, to at least see some
of the, the similarities in, in the co-patterns, where you have
that striping along the shoulder, that came from the Nubian wild ass.
And then the striping on the legs that we typically see in the Somali wild ass.
So, you'll see that in some of the pictures of, of the breeds that we have.
Now quickly before we, you know, jump into
the different breeds, we have to cover some terminology.
Now, in horses, male horses are known as, as stallions.
In donkeys and in some of the hybrids that we'll
talk about in,in the next lecture, they're referred to as jacks.
The females in horses are referred to as
mares where in donkeys they're referred to as jennies.
Now any stallion or jack that has been castrated, they're known
as geldings, or specifically in donkeys, they'll be known as cut-jacks.
And then a foal is a foal, is a foal
so that's, that's, that's similar between you know, horses and donkeys.
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Now the first donkey actually originated from Ethiopia, and
you can see it's also known as an Ethiopian donkey.
And you can really see you know, how that donkey looks so closely resembles
a Nubian wild ass, and a Somali wild ass with the striping along the shoulder.
And, some of that faded striping along the legs.
So, you can definitely go, oh yeah, you
can kind of see where that animal came from.
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And then the Anatolia donkey, it originated in Turkey, so it's, it's you
know, obviously the other side of
the Mediterranean from Ethiopia or further north.
And I, you know, chose this picture to put
in here to, to make you realize that donkeys
are still used throughout the world, you know, for
agriculture and other purposes, so they are still working animals.
You know, here's some children bringing in a harvest with their donkey and when I,
when I spent some time in Egypt you know, I was able to see donkeys pulling
carts and you know, still working and
they're, and they're very important to those societies
so you know, s, still need to see
them have such an important connection to humans.
Now the next breed we'll talk about is the
Standard donkey, and this comes really in three different sizes,
and you can see the the size requirements or
where they fit in there in inches and in centimeters.
So, there's the small standard, the standard, and the
large standard, and these can be all different coat colors.
You know, which again next week, we'll,
we'll, we'll jump into different coat colors.
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Get you up on that.
Now the next breed is, and I thought it is a really
cool one to, to put in here is the Mammoth Jack donkey.
And this is the largest donkey breed in
the world, and they actually have height restrictions.
You actually have to be taller than, than those restrictions.
So for jacks it's 14 hands, for jennies it's 13.2 hands.
So to register with them, you actually have to
be, your donkey has to actually be taller than that.
And the largest donkey in the world is named Romulus and he actually stands 17
hands tall, so you know, as tall as
some largest draft horses Romulus, the Mammoth Jack.
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And then the Mary donkey you could
see what, you know, some other [INAUDIBLE] whether
the people called the Merv and, and what not that, and it originated in Iran
and Azerbaijan, so again, you can see some of that you know, striping from a
Nubian wild ass, and there's probably some Asiatic
wild ass in there somewhere along the line.
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And then the next one that a lot of people
love seeing are the Miniature donkeys, and these originated in
the Mediterranean, and the term burro, You know, really came
from the Americas, and that's what we call small donkeys.
So these miniature donkeys, or smaller donkeys of ours,
you know they're, they're kind of known as burros.
And, for the Miniature donkeys, you know they can't be taller than
nine hands, so they do have some height restrictions with, with them.
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And then the final breed we'll, we'll talk about
is the, the p, the Poitou, Poitou donkey from France.
And what's really cool about these donkeys is, not only are they tall, so you
can see the long legs on that one, but you can look at the coat.
I mean, it's really neat looking.
You know, animal has this really long hair.
Just really looks, looks cool.
So I, I thought it would be fun to highlight that one.
But again, similar to horses there's many, many donkey breeds throughout the world.
You know, I didn't want to leave anybody out but,
you know, don't have time to cover them all so.
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Still great animals to work with.
Now the next lecture, we're going to, you know, kind of close out the week,
talking about the hybrids, and how do we come about with these hybrids.
And, and so I look forward to seeing you then.
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Chris J. Mortensen, Ph.D.Professor
