A Bi-Monthly Magazine
Borrowing From Yesterday To Do the Work Of Today
Offering Resources to Promote Self-Sufficient & Back-to-the-Land Living
Mules and Donkeys
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Mule and Donkey Resources
Above: Gene England teaches some youngsters how to plow with a team of mules.
Resource Materials
Visit our Bookstore for the most extensive collection of mule and donkey resources.
Longear Lingo
by Paul & Betsy Hutchins
Mules
- What is a Mule? by Paul & Betsy Hutchins
- Why Mules? by Paul & Betsy Hutchins
- History of the Mule courtesy of American Mulel Museum
- Gelding the John Mule by Marlene Malcher
- Estimate Your Equine’s Weight by Mari Lintin Leedy
Understanding Mules
- Communicating with Your Mule by Sophia Sarember
- Steve Edwards - Mule Trainer by Bethany Caskey
- Making and Unmaking the Balky Mule by Sophia Sarember
Donkeys
- Four Kinds of Donkey by Paul & Betsy Hutchins
- Donkey courtesy of International Museum of the Horse
Breeding for Mules
- To Make a Mule by Marlene Malcher
- Horse + Donkey = Mule by Morris Helmig & Sybil E. Sewell
- Horse + Donkey = Mule Illustration by Bethany Caskey **NEW
Hinnies
- Why Not Hinnies? by Gail Damerow
- Mule or Hinny? by Betsy Hutchins
Harnessing Donkeys and Mules
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Fitting a Donkey or Mule Halter by Leah Patton
(why a horse halter won't fit your mule or donkey)
Additional Resources
Above: Vaden Floch drives his team of Belgian mules pulling a sulky plow. Photo by Linda Henderson.
Mule LInks
- American Mule Museum website
- American Donkey and Mule Society (Love Longears - website on all things Longear)
Teams for Sale
- How to Buy a Mule by Betsy Hutchins
- Find and/or list a
Horse,
Oxen,
Mule or Donkey Team for sale.
Information on trimming, clipping, repair, materials, shoes, stocks, and forge work.
Many articles about caring for your horse including nutrition,
breeding, disease, EPSM, and much more.
breeding, disease, EPSM, and much more.
A place to spend time with others interested in draft animals, self-sufficient living,
small-scale family farming and other aspects of our rich rural heritage.
small-scale family farming and other aspects of our rich rural heritage.
Home of the internet’s most extensive calendar listing of draft horse events
(frequently updated online)
(frequently updated online)
An online listing of businesses that provide products and services to the draft animal
industry as well as small sustainable farming activities.
industry as well as small sustainable farming activities.
Harness information, including a full line of custom harness and related tack.
Above: A team of Percheron mules work on a drag at a Kentucky field day. Photo by Joe Mischka.
