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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | Whiteboy - 2015-04-08 9:56 AM Oh no Hoofs. This was all done if fun. We were roping and I was telling a couple guys that my horse sticked at just over 14.3 h. They didn't believe me, they thought he was taller. Then of course everybody wanted to measure their horse. Some of them were sure their horse was 17h. Lol, over compensating SOB's.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I sold one that was 14.2 and everyone who came to look at her was convinced she was at least 15 hands. uh, no. She was a big mare, but short. Another one I sold, my friend sticked for me at 15.3. We were both like huh, thought he was bigger than that. The buyer who bought him sight unseen wasn't impressed when she measured him at 16.2--figured out later my friend was reading the stick wrong. LMAO! |
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Location: Canada | We bought a calf horse sign unseen that was finished both ends as well for roping. He was never put on barrels but has barrel pedigree to sell an arm for.
Anyway we buy him a) because he's 14.3 and perfect height for calf roping and b) because he's small and never put on barrels so it's unlikely I'll snag him from hubby for myself --- silly boy lol
He arrives off the trailer and the horse is 16 hands. Hes too tall to jump off for my hubs for calf roping and the perfect height to start on barrels. To this day hubs swears I set him up so I could have this horse instead lol.
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Who Wants to Trade?
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| The only horse I've measured in the past 5 years is one of my tb mares. We bought her sight unseen. They said she needs a box to haul in because she's so big. Pictures she looks maybe 15.1-2. We get her off the Equine Express rig and just stare. She's every bit of 17.1 LOL. She's just balanced. |
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| Looks to me like we have a bunch of size queens and guys over compensating.... |
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 Lived to tell about it and will never do it again
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| Along with learning how to measure would be learning how to weigh! I can't believe all the people that think they have a 1400 lb horse. |
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I just read the headlines
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| Ha! So true. |
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| I don't know how old mine are much less correct height. When ever asked their age, I have been saying around 14. These are horses we have owned for years, I finally got their papers out, 2 are 16, one is 18 and the other is 21 :0- off by just a few years. |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Last time I had mine measured was at the vets, the gelding was 15.3 at 6 years old and the mare was 16.2 at the withers and 16.3 at the hip, she was 4, hence the reason the vet decided to measure both as she was still a little downhill. A year later at an Ed clinic the first go of the second day on my big mare Ed was talking to me at the 2nd barrel, he was standing with his hand on her neck in front of the saddle and mid way thru a sentence he stops and says "Just how big is she???" LOL!!! I told him what she was measured at the vet the year before and Ed says "Well she is a heck of a lot bigger than that now, I can tell you that!" He said he had no idea she was that big until he realized his hand was well above him as he was standing there talking. We have measure her at home at 16.3. Everyone swears they are both bigger than what they have measured. My little mare is 15.1 and my friend constantly tells me "just because they dont' take 2 slots in the trailer, doesn't make them a little horse..." LOL!!! |
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  Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | How important is this really lol?
I girl eyeballed Scorcho and could never make up my mind. I put him at 15.2, 15.3 and 16.0 hands in three different places. I finally asked another girl, Herbie, and we have agreed that he is 15.3 or was it 15.2??? I forget. Herbie??? What did we decide on?? In my defense, I'm ususally drinking and I can never find a tape measure.....He's not too big and not too small :) |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | BTW....I think things shrink over time....for instance, I was 5'9 and 3/4 inches when I was 18 and, now, my doctor swears I'm only 5'8"......makes me look bad come physical time and they use your weight and height to measure your fitness age. I'm now 76 years old. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | LRQHS - 2015-04-08 3:20 PM BTW....I think things shrink over time....for instance, I was 5'9 and 3/4 inches when I was 18 and, now, my doctor swears I'm only 5'8"......makes me look bad come physical time and they use your weight and height to measure your fitness age. I'm now 76 years old.
Girl you just made me laugh at how old you are now... |
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Location: Texas | LMAO LRQHS!! 
I actually like measuring and weighing our horses, especially the yearlings to 5 year olds, just to see how much they progress.
I also can't imagine buying a horse sight unseen, especially now days...
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) |
I wasn't laughing lol. I'm like, seriously, my fit age is 76??? That sounds pretty bad....can I start collecting my retirement and get the Senior discount at the movie theatre?? Oh, boy, I can enter Senior Barrels now!! :) |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | LRQHS - 2015-04-08 3:34 PM I wasn't laughing lol. I'm like, seriously, my fit age is 76??? That sounds pretty bad....can I start collecting my retirement and get the Senior discount at the movie theatre?? Oh, boy, I can enter Senior Barrels now!! :)
I'm snorting here,,
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| Love this discussion. I stick everything and have a huge Appendix gelding. He is 17 hands with out shoes. I was sitting on him at Barrel race and some people kept talking about their 17 hand horse. When they rode up to me I was towering over them by at least 5 inches. I buy and sell so the stick is in my trailer. The horse was 15.3!!!  |
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 Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Three 4 Luck - 2015-04-08 12:16 PM I sold one that was 14.2 and everyone who came to look at her was convinced she was at least 15 hands. uh, no. She was a big mare, but short. Another one I sold, my friend sticked for me at 15.3. We were both like huh, thought he was bigger than that. The buyer who bought him sight unseen wasn't impressed when she measured him at 16.2--figured out later my friend was reading the stick wrong. LMAO!
Now that made me laugh! |
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Me too!!!! |
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 Pork Fat is my Favorite
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | rodeowithjoker - 2015-04-08 11:40 AM I know TurnLane can measure because the 16 hand horse I went to pick up from her is exactly 16 hands. I thought oh yeah sure, he'll be 15.2 which is big but not elephant size. Lo and behold, Streak is a legit 16 hands. That'll teach me to figure that everyone overstates their horse's height. LOL.
Thanks! Funny you say that, I totally forgot. But I do know it takes a BIG horse to be 16 hands and weigh 1500#. People use that as a base line all the time- cracks me up!! I think I am a good eye-baller but I do have a stick and I weigh them everytime we are at the vets just to keep record of weight. I see Ol Streak made your fav pics on the other thread too!  |
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 Quarter Horse HIstorian
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | oija - 2015-04-08 11:09 AM
Actually I'm usually a pretty good guesser. I do stick them or use a tape on them some, but I'm generally with .5" to 1" guessing. I've known for a while my 3 year old was around 14.3. I measured her 14.3 on the money a couple months ago with a stick. I learned a long time ago that the bottom of my chin is right at 15 hh. I go from there.
That's actually called "chinning a horse." The old-time traders used to do it- my dad was good at it, back in the day. He stood 5'5", so he'd have trouble with today's 17 hand horses! I can chin one pretty accurately up to 15.2, but then, I like shorter (14.2-15 hands) horses, especially now that I'm getting long in the tooth. |
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