Hinnies

While reading an article from the Charlotte Observer just now, I came across a new word (to me, at least): hinnies.

Intrigued, I looked it up on Wikipedia. I discovered that a Hinny is a horse/donkey hybrid resulting from the mating of a male horse and a female donkey. (The opposite cross, male donkey/female horse is, of course, a mule.) Being a city boy I'd never sat down and thought out interspecies breeding variations like this.

I did read, once upon a time, that our first President, George Washington, after his retirement was amused by the sexual antics of the mules at Mt. Vernon and wrote to friends describing their prowess.

*laughs*

Anyway, file this under...