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Yes . They tend not to be my favorite. Fact is I would steer clear of one just on the description. They are usually small to small really. They have a real poor build usually real weak rear and usually pretty hammer headed. Mentally they vary but more troublesome is normal. But they surd are limber when they wanna be. Some breeds seem to cross much better then others for some reason. I am not a real mule expert but have run into enough scrub mules to weigh in on this particular cross. If your heart I'd set on trying it I would sure try and use a northern mustang with as much draft blood as you can get. There's a guy down the road from me that got one and was sure it was perfect. But its spent more time out or at the mule trainers then stanying home and to my knowledge he's only ridden it a dozen times. Granted she's a extreme case but close enough to the rest.

H&T


Now your messin with the right critter. Jump right in and straighten out them mules!!! Have fun!!!!!!




Take care, Willie

I am no expert but have owned mules for 25 years. I had a jack and bred mules for 10 years. Here's my opinion just like dogs it is all up to the individual. There are good mules and they are bad mules. My jack was a 13.2 hands most of the big jacks around here did not have the conformation for me. I bred all types of mares from BLM to warm bloods. I did not like 1\4 horse mules because of the slow gait, their disposition was great. I like apply mules or thoroughbred mules, you have to have the right mind on them or they can be a handful. I bred a 14.1 mustang mare to my little jack, I named the mule Badger and it fit. Sold him to a good mule man that loves him. Small and fast, tough as nails but not for everyone. Dewey

out of curiosity how big of mule did this badger turn out to be? i've always thought that often one of the reasons smaller mules turn sour is because while mules may be tougher then horses people tend to push this to far and over work these smaller mules to the point they start souring. it sure seems to be something to watch for on the little mexican mules we see and probably has a bit to do with too much range time and too fast a period of training with a do or die theory. but it sure turns out some real ornery mules every so often that have figured out and mastered every trick they can. some of them are also the best reining mules i've seen so i guess if you sort through it like everything else it works out.