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Post by julz on Dec 17, 2009 22:03:14 GMT 1
Seamus was 15.2hh and weighed 620kg...... if i was you i'd add 100kg onto the weigh tapes answer.... S was measured with a weigh tape and came up as 520, then weighed a couple weeks later on a weigh bridge... came up as 620kg
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Post by wabuska on Dec 17, 2009 22:23:43 GMT 1
My 16hh (without shoes) ISH is 525kg, and strikes me as a middle weight.... bay in my profile pics.
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Post by big e on Dec 17, 2009 22:54:05 GMT 1
I had a very obese mare on loan to do something with. She was 17hh and weighed in at 1226 She is the only horse i have ever seen that was covered in celluite We did manage to get her down to a modest 700 over the course of about 10 months
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Post by wabuska on Dec 18, 2009 9:27:55 GMT 1
Now that is a fantastic achievement! I do think the measurements on the wormers don't take large horses into account. Between the vagueness and spillage, I'm never sure if I'm getting it in.
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Post by mandal on Dec 18, 2009 10:03:52 GMT 1
Yes big e what an incredible achievement!!!! Forgot to say I consider Sophie middle weight even though she is tall (to me lol) I wouldn't call her a large horse.
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Post by donkeydude on Dec 18, 2009 23:48:36 GMT 1
Just out of interest, the BHS course I did last year suggested 100kg/hand over 10hh, so a 16hh would be about 600kg. Well that's clearly inaccurate. One of ours, who is NOT overweight, is 15.3hh and weighs near 1000Kg. He's a Trait Breton
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Post by natalia on Dec 19, 2009 8:58:58 GMT 1
Your best bet is to call your vet and ask them to bring the weighbridge down. Ours did this last year, was very interesting. We then had a guess the weight competition and it was amazing how far out some people were.
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Post by sophielouise on Dec 19, 2009 14:28:48 GMT 1
Chester is 650 kg last time I weighed him for worming.
He's a 17hh, MW ISH type.
The vet saw him last week and said he is looking fine, he just needs to build up muscle to look perfect - unsuprising really, as he's cost over £800 in vet's bills since October so he's done nothing!
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Post by arabmania on Dec 19, 2009 23:30:13 GMT 1
i think anything over 15/15.2hh is classed as large. ? your mare does not look overweight. tummy is not a reliable indicater of weight. one of my mares is carrying a 'hay belly' but is not overweight ;D points are usually crest, shoulder, ribs, bottom and spine. score each one individually.
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Post by Zuzan on Dec 20, 2009 19:18:45 GMT 1
Well done big e and many thanks everyone for your views (as well as the compliments.. I'll not pass these onto Neets as her ego is quite big enough... )... I'm 100% that Neets is the right weight ... whatever that might be.. I was really looking for your views on what constitutes a big horse .. and it's quite evident that everyone has quite different take on what a "large" horse is... I was of the opionion that horses started being horses (as apposed to ponies.. with the exception of Arabs that are ALLWAYS horses no matter what height they are ) at about the 14.2hh / 15hh mark ... so to me a "medium" horse would be around 16hh - 16.2hh given that there are some 18hh horses around.. and large being around the 17hh.
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Post by basilhorse on Dec 20, 2009 19:32:59 GMT 1
17hh to me is definitely a large horse LOL. You should have seen me age 16 and 7 stones wet through riding a 17.1hh ex-steeplechaser. It was rather funny . I took him to my local riding club's xmas treasure hunt one year - fortunately it was a team event and my friend on her 13.2hh pony did the getting off to read the clues LOL. We won too .
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Post by jamesb on Dec 20, 2009 20:06:40 GMT 1
Just out of interest, the BHS course I did last year suggested 100kg/hand over 10hh, so a 16hh would be about 600kg. Well that's clearly inaccurate. One of ours, who is NOT overweight, is 15.3hh and weighs near 1000Kg. He's a Trait Breton Ouch! I'll go back to my cubby hole then... Of course, you may want to take this up with the BHS if you feel they are giving people duff information.
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Post by sophielouise on Dec 20, 2009 21:49:06 GMT 1
Any guidelines suggested by the BHS, are exactly that - guidelines, of course things are going to differ slightly for individual horses, as any aspect of stable management theory will do.
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Post by ella19 on Dec 20, 2009 22:16:40 GMT 1
When learning about nutrition you would of course always weigh bridge as preference but next down the line is weight tape and if you don't have that it is standard that your "average" fit tb 15hh will be around the 500kg mark. I would assume this is what the wormers are also loosely based upon when going for small and large horse?
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Post by sophielouise on Dec 20, 2009 22:26:11 GMT 1
I think, the thing with the BHS guidelines - as with any theory stable management - is that they are just guidelines. Each horse is an individual, as with anything
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