A hinny is the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey (jennet or jenny). For other uses, see Scientific classification (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ...
Hinny: This is the term used for the hybrid animal produced when the female ass (jennet) is mated to the male horse (stallion) to produce a foal. There are both male hinnies and females.
Hinny The hybrid animal produced when a female ass (jennet) is crossed to an older smaller stallion. Hock The "knee" of the hind legs.
Breeding a male donkey to a female horse results in a mule; breeding a male horse to a female donkey produces a hinny. Offspring from either cross, although fully developed as males or females, are almost always sterile.
The mule, easier to breed and usually larger in size than a hinny, has monopolised the attention of breeders. The chromosome match-up more often occurs when the jack (male donkey) is the sire and the mare (female horse) is the dam.
A hinny is the less common hybrid of a female ass (jenny) and a stallion. Breeders have also tried crossing various species of zebra with mares or female asses to produce "zebra mules" (zorses, and zonkeys (also called zedonks)).
jenny [female donkey] and the foal will be a hinny. Aren't they the same
thing though? No. Hinnies tend to smaller and more horselike in
appearance, compared to their mule counterparts, though both hybrids come ...
A mule is a cross between a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). A hinny is a cross between a male horse (a stallion) and a female donkey (a jenny). Mules and Hinnies are usually sterile.
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These include the zorse, a cross between a zebra and a horse that is often created in Africa and used for trekking on Mount Kenya. A mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse, while a hinny is a cross between a female donkey and a ...
 See also: Stallion, Mules, Mare, Donkey, Saddle
  
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