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Date Posted: 18:49:58 11/20/02 Wed
Author: Cheri
Subject: Wednesday's horse fact..
In reply to: Cheri 's message, "A New Week. Daily Inspirations, and Horse Facts..." on 12:25:54 11/18/02 Mon



Health concerns of Mule and Donkeys..


Part 3 ..


More common Mule/Donkey terms..


Donkey sizes--Donkeys come in all shapes and sizes ranging from the Miniature Mediterranean Donkey that stands 36 inches or less in height to the Mammoth, where males must exceed 56 inches in height and females, 54 inches. In between are three categories of "Standard" donkeys.


Mule--The hybrid animal produced when a male donkey (jack) is crossed with a female horse. The mule is sterile. There have been isolated cases where a mare mule has reproduced, but that is a fluke of nature. The donkey jack generally will pass on its long ears, narrow body, and smaller hooves. The horse contributes size, speed, and muscle. The classic outward difference between a donkey and mule is the tail. The donkey has a tail like a lion or a cow-long tail with a tassel. The mule has a tail like a horse-short tail bone with long hair. The donkey also has a distinctive bray while the mule often seems to combine the bray and the whinny. When the mule gives voice, it starts out like a bray and ends in a whinny.


Hinny--This is the term for the hybrid animal produced when a horse stallion is mated with a jennet. Some hinnies tend to look like horses with long ears, but most can't be distinguished from mules. While hinnies do not differ in form, endurance, or temperament from mules, they are bred less frequently. One of the key reasons is that jennets do not seem to conceive as readily when bred to a horse stallion as when bred to a jack.


Horse mule--This is the proper term for the male mule. It is strongly recommended that all male mules be gelded, as stallion mules, although sterile, are sexually active. (I once owned a horse mule which had been gelded at an early age, but still was so sexually active that he was capable of getting an erection and penetrating a mare in heat.) Many people informally refer to the horse mule as a john mule.


Mare mule--This is the formal term for a female mule, although the common informal term is molly.
Mule colt or mule filly--These terms refer to the young male or female mule under three years of age.

Tomorrows fact .. more terms/Types

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[> Thursday's inspiration.. -- Cheri, 16:47:49 11/21/02 Thu



OUR PERMANENT HOME

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Matthew 6:19-24 (NRSV)

[Jesus said,] "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

"No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."

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Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you."

- John 14:2 (NIV)

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WHILE in the process of preparing my family for an overseas move, I was reviewing a renewal notice for a popular weekly newsmagazine that specializes in articles about the country we were living in. I asked my husband, "Do you want to renew this?" But before he could answer, I realized that we didn't need to renew because that country wouldn't be our permanent home, and we wouldn't want all the information anymore.

My next thought startled me. This earth is not my permanent home, either! My permanent home is in heaven with God. It struck me that I should be reading and studying about my permanent home in heaven as much as I do about my temporary home, this earth.

We are called to be "in the world" but "not of the world," (John 17:11, 14, KJV) to be responsible citizens of this earth and by doing so we will store up treasures in heaven. The challenge and joy of our lifelong journey is in finding balance between the two.


Prayer: Dear Lord, while we tend to the daily business of life on
this earth, give us the desire to read, study, learn, and prepare for our permanent home with you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God abides with us in our earthly home while preparing us for our eternal home.

-- Pam Mayer-Longston (The Netherlands)

PRAYER FOCUS: Families who are moving

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