Braingle: 'Horses and Donkeys' Brain Teaser

Horses and Donkeys

Mystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.

Puzzle ID:	#16528
Fun:	(2.22)
Difficulty:	(0.84)
Category:	Mystery
Submitted By:	BulletThruDaHed
Corrected By:	Winner4600

One day, a farmer decides to put his five donkeys and five horses together in the same field to save space. He moves the animals into the empty field and leaves them with plenty of grass and hay to eat and water to drink.

One year later, he decides to move the animals back into separate fields; but after moving the horses and the donkeys out, he finds that as well as himself, there is still one animal left in the field. During the year, no animal moved in or out of the field, so what is this extra animal and where has it come from?

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Comments

eiennikirei Feb 16, 2004	that was super easy
airhead3 Feb 17, 2004	What's to say the remaining animal wasn't the offspring of a male horse and female horse, or of a male and female donkey (jack and jennet, respectively), or of a male horse and female donkey (which would result in a hinny rather than a mule)?
batti_s Feb 19, 2004	what if there were only males or only females all over the place? then there would be no offspring at all, right? the man would be the animal, i guess? good one....people would not think of a mule or hinny.....they are not very common. sure, it teased me a bit.
Curly-2 Feb 19, 2004	the where as it come from question is , so easy my child got it, as for what the other animal was, that isn't a question that has one obvious answer, as there are 4 possibilities. to say there is another animal, that is neither a horse nor a donkey, would have at least narrowed it down to 2.
BulletThrudahed Feb 23, 2004	the teaser says that he moves all the donkeys and horses out of the field so only 2 possibilities remain
BulletThrudahed Feb 23, 2004	no i Won't turn around but i will post this message 'HIIII'!!
slob Feb 23, 2004	please do!
witness Jun 08, 2004
moondancer Jul 16, 2004	It was really easy... but otherwise it was fine
FreakEme09 Oct 14, 2004	somebody needs some hooked on phonics
just_phil Nov 29, 2004	Could have been a horse or donkey also. Nothing stipulated the animals were of any particular sex.
anotherMe Dec 18, 2004	It could also be a squirel, or the guy's moma, or even a fly... may be an alien that was making sexual experiments with animals... there are not enough clues.
tsd3 Jan 28, 2005	tOo EaSy!
theketchupwins Feb 28, 2005	I thought it was pretty easy personally, but clever just the same. Bravo
poljay Mar 04, 2005	Got that one! Never heard of a hinny though. Thanx readers.
dutchymonster Jul 12, 2005	I thought the farmer had 10 fields in total. After puting them all in the same field he had 9 empty fields. When he put the animals back in the 9 empty fields there was 1 left in the field they were sharing
toxic_happiness Jul 29, 2005	whoa whew!
FerretGirl Sep 28, 2005
rkaaland Nov 16, 2005	Yee haaaa
kcheer2493 May 31, 2006	got it
kcheer2493 May 31, 2006	got it
friesaregood Nov 30, 2007	Why couldn't it be a baby horse?
ILoveWicked1505 Dec 31, 2007	My first thought was "It must be a honkey!" lol I didn't think of mule.
adrianlvr1123 Jan 30, 2008	WOW!!! That was so easy!!! PLz put something more challenging in there!!
demylimbo Jun 05, 2009
lissiclown Jul 08, 2009	i liked it but there were too many possiblities for the answer, it could have said something about how it wasn't another horse or donkey
Icewing Jun 27, 2010	easy peasy!
Quocalimar Nov 06, 2012	I got mule right off the bat, didn't occur to me that it could be a hinny, and even as I got mule I held out the possiblity of just a baby horse. If this were in trick I would have expected it to be maybe a fallen bird, or suirrel or something.