The parts of a hitch and how to hitch up a Donkey

A donkey is a fertile member of the equine family that is usually deminuative with large ears and a short tail. They are often mistaken for mules which are infertile hybred animal whose sire was a jack (male)donkey and whose dam was a mare(female) horse or pony. More rarely there are hybred crosses between a stud horse and a Jenny (female ) donkey - the resulting animal is called a Hinny and looks slightly more like a horse than a mule does.

Donkeys and mules difffer in size , confirmation , and bray - with donkeys having the hawHEE haw HEE and Mules having more of a   shrill screaming whhhhhinny sound.

Donkeys , burros , or asses are all the same animal and they have been used by the poor and women througout the centuries and throughout the world  as overworked beasts of burden. They have been used for milk and for meat as well. A donkey can do nearly as much work as a horse on less feed and water.

A hitch to hook up any equine consists of a collar, sometimes with a pad, hames that lock into the collar and sread the weight of the load over the whole of the collar, the tugs which are chains wrappen in leather that tie the load to the hames. the spider which keeps the tugs square down the sides of the animal, britchen or crupper that keep the tugs directly off the hips of the animal, and then the tugs hook to  a single tree which hooks to the load or to a double tree (when using two animals on a load).