“ZEBROIDS”
BIG FUTURE CLAIMED. “Zebroids”—a cross between a horse mare and a zebra stallion—are contemplated as a commercial proposition by Mr E. J. Kruger, a farmer of South Africa. Running round Pietersburg’s streets now with Mr Kruger’s donkeys is a zebra stallion, father of several foals by donkey mares. The zebra neither kicks nor bits, having been caught when young. The zebra-donkey progeny. Mr Kruger states, are fifty per cent more vigorous than donkeys, and eat fifty per cent less, besides making very good hacking animals, especially for children. From the chance capture of this zebra stallion, quite an industry may grow. The zebra-donkey cross has proved so successful in producing a spirited, hardy animal that something worthy of competing with the mule may result from the zebra-horse cross. Taming the zebra —which is actually regarded as a pest in many parts of South Africa —has often been provedto be an impossible task. Perhaps his diluted progeny may yet play a considerable role in the Transvaal.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 9
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166“ZEBROIDS” Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 9
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