Breeding. A jenny is normally pregnant for about 12 months, though the gestation period varies from 11 to 14 months, and usually gives birth to a single foal. Births of twins are rare, though less so than in horses. About 1.7 percent of donkey pregnancies result in twins; both foals survive in about 14 percent of those ...
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Aug 15, 2018 ˇ It's mules that can't. Donkeys and mules are two different animals. A donkey is it's own species and can reproduce with others of it's own kind.
Since they are in the same family, donkeys, zebras, and horses can interbreed. Each of these animals have a different number of chromosomes though (donkeys have ...
Feb 28, 2017 ˇ Horse and donkey chromosomes are so dissimilar that mules and hinnies only rarely can produce the cells critical for reproduction — eggs and ...
Oct 21, 2022 ˇ The gestation period for donkeys is over a year, at an average of 368 days, so donkeys can really only breed once a year at most. Breeding ...
Sep 13, 2019 ˇ All male donkeys are castrated between 6 and 18 months of age. Females will start cycling regularly between 10 and 22 months old with a wide variation in ...
Mar 1, 2022 ˇ They reproduce through parthenogenesis, which is basically cloning themselves. To stimulate the process, they still need to go through the ...
Oct 27, 2022 ˇ Horses, donkeys and zebras can breed to each other. Mules generally cannot. Only around 1/10,000 conceptions in mules results in offspring, and ...
Aug 8, 2014 ˇ Horses and donkeys are in the process of speciating, because they are not completely separated at all factors that effect reproduction and gene ...
Horses and donkeys do not naturally breed with each other. Mating a horse and a donkey results in a hybrid animal called either a mule or hinny.