Cool! I love Mules. My BIL in ARkansas was raising large mules for riding to sell. At the time he took on the project a good riding mule was selling for $5k or so. then the government decided folks could not sell horses that were going to be eaten and suddenly there were thousands of horses here that nobody wanted. it ruined the market for any horses (according to him). When he was up and running he had a Belgian mare and male asses from the little burro size up to very tall jacks. He also had some appaloosa horses. He was also trying to breed appaloosa mules.

He used to go to Arizona in the winter and hunt cougars. They used mules to climb around after cougars. They are very sure footed and don't bolt when you shoot.

So all the horses and asses are gone now except maybe a riding horse or two and he's too old to hunt "lions" as he calls them.

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