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Location: California | I am trying to figure out where mine is as far as growth and body condition goes. He is an April baby but technically is 2 in a few days and he just seems small to me. How tall are yours? Would love photos!
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Location: Texas | I would love to share pics of my yearling but I am a technotard & do not know how to post pics using my iPhone. I just measured him Thursday & he is 14.2 (+?) and about 825#. I thought the same thing about a month ago, then he got a sudden growth spurt. He is really butt high right now, but stout. How big is yours? I forgot to say, he is a June 1 baby, so he is only 18 mo. Old
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Location: between here and there | Here's my colt that will be 2 in April, too. I haven't actually measured him, but he's every bit of 15 hands.
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| This was right around a year. He will be 2 in June. I would say he was about 14.2 also. He towers over our cowhorse yearlings. Do you know how to do the string test? Mine came out about 15.1 or 15.2 on the string test.
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Location: Kansas and loving it | I can't post pictures from my phone either. I also have an April baby who is automatically a 2 yr old January 1. She is on the small side but I like little horses, I don't feed anything special because I want her to grow naturally. I did the string test and she should be about 14.1 or 14.2. Perfect size! |
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Location: Texas | ok, mine looks like a wooly booger (Its been wet, and he likes being dirty), but y'all have nice slick babies. What's up with that?
I sting tested mine a while back and it came out to 15.2
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Location: Texas | Here's mine. He's a feb baby. I don't expect him to be very tall but I think he's going to be stout. I love him. I've been saddling and lunging him and sat on him the other day. I am trying to do what I can now because I will be busy with school in the spring so he'll get a nice break until May.
If you want a height comparison.. my weanlings are almost as tall as him. LOL. poor guy. But my weanling colt is by Firewater Ta Fame who is a tall sucker and his dam is 15.2 so, not a fair comparison!
ETA- working on uploading pic.. internet connection is pretty crummy :(
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Location: Oklahoma | Mine will be officially 2 in March. She is pushing 15 hands at the hip |
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Location: Oakdale, CA | mine looks like a long weanling...lol They told me though when I bought him he wasn't going to be very tall but really stout. I'm own his 1/2 sister so I didn't care...oh well............. He is by BJO out of an own daughter of On the Money Red
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Location: USA | Here's mine at about a year old. Here's about 14.2 right now. |
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Location: In the wrong place at the wrong time | So happy you started this thread! I've been kind of worried that my April 24 baby was on the small side. He is 14.1 at the withers and 15 hands at the hip.
He is by Firewater Finale out of a Six Fols mare.
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Location: East Texas | My stud colt is pretty big for a yearling. He was born april 5th, so he is 20 months right now. He sticked right at 15.1hh. However his dam is a 16.1hh daughter of Shawne Bug, so I expected him to be a big boy. The second picture is of my gelding I run on the right, who is 16hh and the stud colt on the left, and this picture was in october when he sticked at 15hh.
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Location: California | I guess mine (its actually my moms) just isn't filled out at all. He looks so scrawny and not muscular. I don't get it. He doesn't get fancy feed but he gets plenty of feed. We have never raised a yearling before. He is still intact. Lively and happy just ugly. I have seen both his parents and they are very large... |
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Location: Texas | little_bug - 2014-12-27 6:53 PM I guess mine (its actually my moms) just isn't filled out at all. He looks so scrawny and not muscular. I don't get it. He doesn't get fancy feed but he gets plenty of feed. We have never raised a yearling before. He is still intact. Lively and happy just ugly. I have seen both his parents and they are very large... Some lines just mature slower than others. I don't think you have to get "fancy" with the feed, but they have different needs than an adult horse, so you do need to make sure that they are getting plenty of EXCELLENT hay, plenty of protein and fat, and the right balance of minerals. I think you also have to deworm regularly. I do it every 2-3 months.
Also, by gelding him you will prolong his growth period and get a larger frame than if you leave him a stud.
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Location: between here and there | Just came back to check on the posts and I have to say, my colt's pic was from the fall at about 17 mths. I think. He's a little taller than the pic and shiney because winter weather hadn't hit yet! Sorry to make you feel bad about a shaggy coat! lol I haven't taken any recently so I cheated! Believe me, he's got more hair now! :) |
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Location: Oakdale, CA | Cisco6340 - 2014-12-27 3:14 PM So happy you started this thread! I've been kind of worried that my April 24 baby was on the small side. He is 14.1 at the withers and 15 hands at the hip. He is by Firewater Finale out of a Six Fols mare. Edited to add....sorry can't post pic from my phone.
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| Heres our boy. Hes around 15.2 I believe now. He will be two in April.
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Location: Oklahoma | This is an April filly by Perks Firewater Flit from a month ago
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| This is my long yearling (will be 2 in June)
She is about 14hh at the withers and 14.2 at the hip.
She is still pretty lean, but is just starting to fill out.
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | I'm back :) Let me see what I have on this phone...This is the one Herbie has...El Scorcho out of Bluffin Rail by Rail.
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| My colt will be two in April. He is just over 14 hands at the withers, and 15 hands at the butt.
Don't mind the antlers, the pic was taken at the beginning of December lol
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Location: California | See all your yearlings look like horses... my mom's looks like a half donkey, half colt, half mammoth. I will snap a picture today of him |
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| My yearling will be 2 in mid-March. He's the darker gray. The lighter gray is a coming 5 year old and they are out of same stud. She's about 15 hands and the sorrel is about 15.1-2
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| Here are mine the one by the pond is my Blazin Jetolena she will be 2 in June and is 13 2hh right now. 2nd is my Stickmans Stone X Merganser daughter he will be 2 in March and is 15hh right now
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Location: California | Okay... what is wrong with this one then... he is WAY smaller. Looks like a weanling....
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| little_bug - 2014-12-28 2:25 PM
Okay... what is wrong with this one then... he is WAY smaller. Looks like a weanling....
Worming is where I would start. Have you owned him long? Poor nutrition from the beginning can "stunt" them for awhile or for life depending on how severe. |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | These pics were taken in September. Pulled out of the pasture so not exactly groomed up LOL. They have grown (and also have more hair) since then. They are all between 14 and 15HH at the withers. The last filly was out of a mare that had never carried a foal before and was a June baby so she's the smallest of my 4.
April 2013 filly by Firewater Finale x Bold And Famous (Dash Ta Fame)
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Location: California | Tn_Barrelracer - 2014-12-28 11:49 AM little_bug - 2014-12-28 2:25 PM Okay... what is wrong with this one then... he is WAY smaller. Looks like a weanling.... Worming is where I would start. Have you owned him long? Poor nutrition from the beginning can "stunt" them for awhile or for life depending on how severe.
He gets wormed very regularly... Always has. Have owned him since he was weaned... I don't feel like he has had poor nutrition but maybe he has. He gets fed the same as all our other horses who look great. Has always been fed.... |
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Location: East Texas | little_bug - 2014-12-28 2:57 PM
Tn_Barrelracer - 2014-12-28 11:49 AM little_bug - 2014-12-28 2:25 PM Okay... what is wrong with this one then... he is WAY smaller. Looks like a weanling.... Worming is where I would start. Have you owned him long? Poor nutrition from the beginning can "stunt" them for awhile or for life depending on how severe.
Really there isn't much you can do if he is getting fed good and dewormed. I had a colt that was out of my old barrel mare, and a fairly well known stud. He was stunted and he didn't look smaller than the others as a weanling, but they grew and he didn't. He was very small with a small frame. He probably matured to 13hh maybe. I never sticked him. I am not saying this is what is wrong with your yearling, but I would at least get a vet out to draw some blood and see if there is an underlying issue, and maybe they can give you more insight. The vets suspected that since the mare was older, that when the baby was in the womb he didn't receive all that he needed and thats why he was stunted. |
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Location: California | NoGutsNoGlory - 2014-12-28 12:39 PM little_bug - 2014-12-28 2:57 PM Tn_Barrelracer - 2014-12-28 11:49 AM little_bug - 2014-12-28 2:25 PM Okay... what is wrong with this one then... he is WAY smaller. Looks like a weanling.... Worming is where I would start. Have you owned him long? Poor nutrition from the beginning can "stunt" them for awhile or for life depending on how severe. Really there isn't much you can do if he is getting fed good and dewormed. I had a colt that was out of my old barrel mare, and a fairly well known stud. He was stunted and he didn't look smaller than the others as a weanling, but they grew and he didn't. He was very small with a small frame. He probably matured to 13hh maybe. I never sticked him. I am not saying this is what is wrong with your yearling, but I would at least get a vet out to draw some blood and see if there is an underlying issue, and maybe they can give you more insight. The vets suspected that since the mare was older, that when the baby was in the womb he didn't receive all that he needed and thats why he was stunted.
Do you think he is stunted or can still grow at some point? Mom and dad were both large horses. He will get turned out on some very nice/rich grass come late spring for the entire summer/fall. Horses seem to really bloom on it. |
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Location: East Texas | I cant really say since I am just going off a picture. From the looks of the picture, he looks to be the same size as my weanlings, but its hard to tell size from a picture. I had other colts to compare mine to his entire life, so I knew there was something wrong fairly early on. |
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Location: California | NoGutsNoGlory - 2014-12-28 12:52 PM
I cant really say since I am just going off a picture. From the looks of the picture, he looks to be the same size as my weanlings, but its hard to tell size from a picture. I had other colts to compare mine to his entire life, so I knew there was something wrong fairly early on.
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| This was taken in September. She was 14-3. She has grown another inch since then so is about 15 hh. She is a February baby and will be headed off to get broke as soon as the days start getting a little longer.
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| If he has always been on a good worming/feed program then I would go with blood work like NoGutsNoGlory suggested. Maybe he is just genetically slow to mature? Have you sticked him to see how tall he is? Hard to tell from a pic :) |
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| I would say several factors. First of all, prenatal care and nutrition are essential. If you did not own he mare you have no idea what kind of nutrition she got. Good pasture is not gonna get it. I would suggest a power pack for worms. That is a good start. Some type of Junior feed that is high in protein. Be sure that you feed enough. So many people think that feeding handful of feed because they are small is enough. Probably not. A quality loose horse mineral left out 24/7.
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Location: California | Haven't sticked him but would say under 13 hands for sure... will get bloodwork when he gets gelded.
Editted to add he is no where near a size I would put a saddle on, let alone have anyone step onto his back.
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Location: Where I am happiest | What is his birth date and what is he getting fed? Also can you post a pedigree? |
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Location: Oklahoma | Ok... I'm able to post pictures now that I'm not on my phone. Here is my filly. She gets 6lbs a day (3am/3pm) of Nutrena Pro Force Fuel and free choice bermuda hay. The dun mare in the picture is 15 hands that she's next to.
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | You say he's been fed same as the other's. A growing foal should be fed differently than the older horses. Just off this picture. I would say bring him to the vet. Check a fecal. Check for ulcers and draw some blood work. Then I would proceed. |
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| I am a bad mom and haven't taken recent pictures of my coming 2 year old wooly mammoths. My Chasin Firewater filly is kind of a shorty, 14.0h at her withers but she is pretty butt high, so I expect a growth spurt pretty soon. She's about as wide as she is tall too. My MP Jet to the Sun filly was smaller than the CF filly until about a month ago and she shot up and got a little gangly, but she'll grow into herself in a few months I suspect. |
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Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2014-12-29 8:08 AM You say he's been fed same as the other's. A growing foal should be fed differently than the older horses. Just off this picture. I would say bring him to the vet. Check a fecal. Check for ulcers and draw some blood work. Then I would proceed.
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Location: Wisconsin | Well that didnt go very well.....guess i gotta figure out how to post a pic
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Location: Where I am happiest | Seems we lost the origional poster. Wish she would come back and tell us what she's feeding and how much so we could help her. |
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