Meet Milton the 16hh spotted mule who’s ridden tackless, plays football and lives with mammoth donkeys

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Meet Milton the 16hh spotty mule, who’s ridden tackless, used to have “the slowest bolt in the world” and is enjoying life with a few giant donkeys. She has a 20-month-old jack, a jenny and a four-month-old foal, and hopes to breed more donkeys, and mules big enough to ride. Her vet told her that using frozen semen for AI was not likely to be successful, but then she heard of a pregnant mammoth donkey in England. So now I have one massive spotty mule, I have a massive mammoth donkey jack and a donkey jenny. So those two can now have mammoth donkey offspring, and with the mammoth jack I can breed my own ridden-sized mules with a couple of my own mares.