Mule breeders have been mounting a response to the challenge of other sheep breeds in recent years. Widely recognised as the leading commercial sheep, the combination of a hardy, maternal hill ewe and ...

Lately I’ve encountered two novels which annoyed me because they treated burro and mule as synonyms, which they are not. The most recent was Abandon, by Blake Crouch; the title of the other one does ...

If mules were Freudians they would be kicking mad. They always have parents, rarely have offspring. Because they are the hybrid, infertile offspring of a mare and a jackass, race suicide is as ...

The five main Mule breeds of Britain are in the early stages of forming a promotional body to market all types of Mule sheep as the premier breeding female. The Mule Group aims to pool resources of ...

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