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Location: North Dakota | I have a BIG gelding and of course I live exactly 3 miles from a certified scale so I thought I should use this formula I found to tell me how much my horse weighs (why hook up the trailer and go weigh him??)
I used this method:
http://www.nutrenaworld.com/wcm/groups/public/@canweb/@nutrena/@all/documents/document/na3022859.pdf
OK, my measurements could be 4-6 inches off right??
What I got was 81 heartgirth and 84 length
equals out to 1670 pounds!!!!!!!!
But even if I'm 6 inches off he's still 1329 pounds!
He's big yes, and the biggest horse I've ever rode but really he needs a tube and a half of dewormer??
So those of you that have scaled your horses will you measure them and let me know your measurements?? |
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Location: MD | Post a picture of him! |
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Location: Florida.. | I do not think a quarter horse would weigh that.. 1600. |
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Location: North Dakota | My Point is, if you KNOW what the weight of your horse is, can you measure his heartgirth and his length? This guy is the deepest chested I've every had he's 81 inches around! My other mostly normal 15 hand (I think weigh maybe 1200 Pounds) are only 75 inches around! I will look and see if I have a recent pic. |
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| My guy is a solid 15.2 so not huge height wise, but is BIG and WIDE. Even his legs and bone structure is huge. He weighed right under 1300 on the scale at the vet a little bit ago, probably a solid 1300 when he is muscled up and in shape. I can't imagine a 1600lb QH! |
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Location: North Dakota | From 2013 And an action shot from the summer, I can't believe I don't have any more that are profile shots. He's so big barreled that's a 36" cinch on him. 
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Location: So. California | How tall is he and do you have front and rear pictures? |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | Hook up your trailer, drive to the nearest truck scales. Weigh each axle, add them up. Go get your horse, repeat. Your horse weighs the difference. Check that number with the measurement formulas |
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| My horse weighes 1215lb and that is when he was not in shape as he had epm, weighed him on vet scale. He is a little over 16 hands and pretty thick. Looks like a warm blood. I think when he is fat and in shape he would be more like 1300/1350. But funmy thing is my 15hand powerhouse mare wears same side girth.
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | Our 14.2 cow bred has been on the scales two times. Once he weighed 1210 and a year later with lots of dieting and hard riding he scaled at 1194. |
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| Had my narrow 15.3h TB type grade gelding on a scale last week at the vets office... 1100lbs.
Idk if I would have pegged him for that. A solid 1000 yes, but man he's put on some muscle! |
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Location: North Dakota | Keep in mind this horse is almost 7' around and sorry for the fuzzy horse and pics
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Experienced Mouse Trapper
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Location: North Dakota | OhMax - 2015-04-09 7:48 PM Had my narrow 15.3h TB type grade gelding on a scale last week at the vets office... 1100lbs. Idk if I would have pegged him for that. A solid 1000 yes, but man he's put on some muscle!
So how big around and how long are these horses?? I think the formula is on crack! Lol! |
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What Name?
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| LMS - 2015-04-09 4:48 PM From 2013 And an action shot from the summer, I can't believe I don't have any more that are profile shots. He's so big barreled that's a 36" cinch on him.
Lol.... you horse could eat my horse! My horse wear 28 inch cinch. |
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| Why don't you just order a cheap little weight tape? I guess I've never weighed for wormer. I just gestimate and down the hatch it goes... |
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Location: North Dakota | Because, just like everything else, assumptions are made, this formula is supposed to be accurate, I want to know for my own curiosity if it is accurate. Honestly I will probably take him to the scale, just to satisfy my curiosity. I think the last time I used the weight tape he was 1290. That was in 2013. I really can't imagine that he is that heavy?? |
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| This is a BIG horse --- like 16-1. I am 5' 5". He is also very thick. I seriously doubt that he weighs over 1250.
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| I can weigh some horses. We have a scale here. Ive seriously never weighed them though just said I should lol.
Im cerious to see how accurate the formula is.... |
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Location: Louisiana | classicpotatochip - 2015-04-09 10:23 PM Why don't you just order a cheap little weight tape? I guess I've never weighed for wormer. I just gestimate and down the hatch it goes...
I have a weight tape and it says my big 16hand guy weighs under 1000 pounds...I dunno about that LOL!! While he isn't quite as wide as some of my fiance's roping horses, he definitely isn't narrow. I haven't ever hauled him accross the scales though, maybe I'll try to do that soon.
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