Breeds of Donkeys

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The Horse Course: Introduction to Basic Care and Management

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University of Florida

The Horse Course: Introduction to Basic Care and Management

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There are over 100 million horses, donkeys and mules in the world today and owners of these animals can be found on almost every continent and in almost every society. The Horse Course will cover many unique aspects of equine ownership and touch upon the science behind many of today’s management practices.

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Introduction to The Horse Course

Welcome to Week 1 of The Horse Course! To start off the course, we will begin discussing what exactly an “equid” is. We will cover the many equine species inhabiting our globe. Next, we’ll jump into the history of horses and donkeys, touching upon how they have made such an impact on our own societal development. The second half of week 1 will cover the many breeds of horses and donkeys. We will finish up with a lecture on the equine hybrids.

Breeds of Horses15:12

Breeds of Donkeys4:59

The Hybrids7:27

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Chris J. Mortensen, Ph.D.
Professor
Animal Sciences

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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