In the mule and hinny, however, the disease is full of interest.

The child of a female donkey and a male horse is called a hinny.

The Hinny turned back to the blue lad, one ear moving forward with agreement.

In Ireland, the word jennet is used for a hinny.

As a treadmill animal, it is right behind the hinny."

A male horse can be crossed with a female donkey to produce a hinny.

The male hinny or mule can and will mate, but the emission is not fertile.

But the Hinny surveyed him with such uncanny certainty that he could not protest further.

When horses breed with donkeys the baby is called a mule or a hinny.

The head of a hinny resembles that of a horse, more so than mule heads.

Then he approached the Hinny and extended his hand, slowly, as one must do for a strange horse, allowing her to sniff it.

"Hinny, I require a service of thee, for the price thou knowest."

We eased off, cooling, and I patted the Hinny's shoulder.

Thus, a hinny is restricted to being about the size of the largest breed of donkey.

The man's cart is being pulled by a "cleg-tormented" hinny who shows some reluctance to move on and needs to be whipped.

His most famous song is Keep yor feet still Geordie hinny.

The Hinny hauled her- self to her feet.

A related hybrid, a hinny, is a cross between a stallion and a jenny (female donkey).

A female hinny, also called a "Jenny"

Mule and hinny are examples of reciprocal hybrids.

I rode the Hinny, and Snowflake walked beside.

But the Hinny leaped forward, intercepting that scintil- lating bolt with her own body.

The hybrid with the reverse parentage (and somewhat different appearance and characteristics) is a hinny.