. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. THE ASS 159 these jacks are bred to a very large, drafty, powerful type of mare, native to that region, from which are produced big mules of the most valuable kind. As yet jacks of this breed have not been brought to America to much of an extent, but they are generally regarded with favor wherever introduced. The desirable height for a jack depends upon the use. If to be mated to a mare, about 15 hands meets approval, while if for jennet service, a larger type is sought, ranging nearer 16 hands. In an examination of heights of jacks in the Americ
. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. THE ASS 159 these jacks are bred to a very large, drafty, powerful type of mare, native to that region, from which are produced big mules of the most valuable kind. As yet jacks of this breed have not been brought to America to much of an extent, but they are generally regarded with favor wherever introduced. The desirable height for a jack depends upon the use. If to be mated to a mare, about 15 hands meets approval, while if for jennet service, a larger type is sought, ranging nearer 16 hands. In an examination of heights of jacks in the American jack studbook 100 individ- uals averaged hands high, practically 15I hands. Of the first 100 registered whose height was given the lowest was 14 and the high- est 165 hands, but nine per cent coming within the 16- hands measure. Twenty- five Catalonian jacks had an average height of 15, and seven Majorca hands. Fifty jennets showed an average height of or 14^ hands. Tegetmeier and Sutherland give the height of the Poitou jack as 13A to 15, and of the jennets as 13 to 14 hands. In 1877 Richardson described the Poitou ass as standing from 13-J to 14I hands, while Sessions says they rarely exceed 14I hands. The large jack of 16 hands or more is not desired, for he frequently breeds a leggy mule that does not weigh as well as those sired by a shorter-legged type of jack. The rules of the American Breeders' Association of Jacks and Jennets on the sub- ject of height are as follows : 2. Up to January i, 1892, all jacks 14^^ and all jennets 14 hands high, standard measure, shall be eligible to registration, if black with light points. 3. After January i, 1892, jacks and jennets of unrecorded sire or dam shall be eligible to registration only when black with light points, and of the following height, standard measure :. Fig. 61. Lisa and foal. The first-prize Poitou jennet at Nantes, France, 1901. Notice the long, rough coat of hair. Photograph from James B. McLaughl
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