My newest zebra filly

[TexasBred]

Yes camel roam free in Australia, many think they are a great nuisance. Too bad our wonderful Government won't allow anymore importation of the exotics for the most part. Even though camels were in the United States a long time before humans were, and they were domesticated before Christ time, they are considered to be "wild and exotic" by our USDA.

We had camels in the US?? He## we didn't even have horses til the spanish arrived. For once I have to agree with the dam government on this one.

 

[TexasBred]

What about narrow minded humans? Even though these are FAR from exotic!!! :roll:

Hopefully we've got more "level headed" humans that are concerned with our own.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

Very cute baby! But I really prefer spots to stripes -- can you build one with stripes on the front, and spots on the rear?

 

[cameldairy]

"Marbles" my zorse has spots and stripes!

 

[cameldairy]

 

[ANAZAZI]

Alright, we call those zebroids. Looks good.

 

[cameldairy]

He almost could qualify as brindle color, huh? ;-)

 

[ANAZAZI]

Yup! Although extremely rare, it is possible to get horses in true brindle colour, but then one has to crossbreed too because they are so few that breeding within any breed is seldom an option. When it comes to zebroids all males and most females are sterile because of differences in the chromosome count. In theory one could find one of the fertile zebroid mares and mate it to a horse, and some of the offspring would be striped. I hear only five percent of mule mares are fertile, so chances are low.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

Darn -- I was looking for really big, BIG rear spots without stripes. But they're pretty. Thanks for posting this!