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Wood Gnome

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breeding mules
« on: October 17, 2006, 02:45:00 am »
ok, i know mules aren't much use besides meat, but more mules would mean more meat that first winter.  unfortunately i have yet to see a mule produce a little mule.  are they sterile?  or just too stubborn/stupid to figure out the birds and the bees?
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Re: breeding mules
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2006, 03:50:00 am »
With extremely rare exceptions, real-life mules are sterile.
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DimmurWyrd

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Re: breeding mules
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2006, 06:33:00 am »
In fact the term mule itself has become synonymous with the concept of sterility  ;)

If I recall it's a crossbreeding of horse and donkey and these two animals are different enough that the result is sterile but just barely similar enough to actually produce offspring at all.

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Wood Gnome

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Re: breeding mules
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2006, 07:02:00 am »
gotcha.  eat the mules and have done with then.  thanks!
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Gakidou

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Re: breeding mules
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2006, 10:27:00 pm »
I'm hoping that donkeys get implemented sometime; more mules would be nice. (I guess adding crossbreeding could also allow for things like Half-Elves, although I get the feeling that Humans and Elves in DF are slightly less compatible than in D&D.)
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