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| oliviaw |
Posted - 06 Oct 2010 : 9:43:23 PM
Just wondering how big you would expect an 09 foal standing at 13.2hh now to mature at?
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| oliviaw |
Posted - 31 Oct 2010 : 7:38:55 PM
Wow he is a huge boy!!!!
have you got any pictures of him???
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| Kharidian |
Posted - 31 Oct 2010 : 6:39:04 PM
Gulp.....Chips is 17 months today and I've just measured him again; 14.3hh at the withers and 15.1hh at the quarters! He looks a little short in the back at the moment because he's so bum-high but his front still looks a-ma-zing. He's such a sweet and sensible person too - I'm so lucky Karen answered my Wanted advert as I couldn't have found a more perfect baby.
Caryn |
| K8E |
Posted - 25 Oct 2010 : 6:54:15 PM
My boy is just approaching 17 months (June 09 baby) and is 14.2 with a stick at heighest point of wither but higher on back end so in for another growing spert! would expect around 15hh / 15-1 when mature.
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| Pashon2001 |
Posted - 25 Oct 2010 : 1:33:53 PM
I definately havent over heighted her lol, here is her at 20 months.......... you decide how tall she is lol
Louise may not be a giant but she's def not a dwarf! |
| Callisto |
Posted - 25 Oct 2010 : 10:18:01 AM
I have a 'solid' 14 1 hh, and I don't look silly on him - I'm 5'7" and 10 stone so I'm sure your filly will be big enough to ride, when we were teenagers my sister's skinny purebred barely broke 14 hh and none of us looked ridiculous on him either - he rode big.
There was a thread on measuring/estimating future height last year - worth a search. |
| s.jade |
Posted - 25 Oct 2010 : 09:55:33 AM
My purebred yearling filly (June 09) is just under 13hh (with a stick!)
She's always going to be pint sized, we expect she might top out around 14hh. Sire is 14.2hh, dam is 14.1hh so she was never going to be a big girl, but she is solid so hope she'll be big enough to ride! |
| Fran E |
Posted - 25 Oct 2010 : 08:44:19 AM
Hi,
Has anyone else heard of predicting their youngsters height by measuring from point of fetlock to point of shoulder and then point of shoulder upwards??
As I'm sightly confussed as I currently have an 18month old who measures 13.3hh in front 14.1hh on the bun so should get about 14.2hh ish but using this method it predicts her to get 16hh's, bit of a difference.
Has anyone tried it on their mature horses/ponies to see if it really works, as if it does the string should sit at their wither height??
Have a go and let me know - could be interesting |
| oliviaw |
Posted - 08 Oct 2010 : 7:16:18 PM
I would be very happy with 14.2! 14.2 of Rosie will be quite enough i think!! ha!
It was just that some of the girls at the yard was saying she would only make 14hh.
I measured her with the weight tape height measur last night and on that she was borderline 13.1/13.2 at the withers but was borderline 13.3/14 on her bum.
For these height calculator things would you put in the highest of the 2 measurements or her wither height??????
olivia xx |
| BabsR |
Posted - 08 Oct 2010 : 08:46:35 AM
That is a fact....peeps do seem to overheight their horses. Over the years we have gone to see TB stallions advertised at 16.2hh who have in fact been only 15.3hh
Once went to look at a 16.2hh (advertised) for our very tall son....spent hours on the phone ensuring the horse was a full up 16.2hh and was assured of same...travelled up to the peaks of Derbyshire to find a horse no bigger than 15.1hh....boy, were we angry!!!
I would say that your 13.2hh yearling if in good condition,will mature out at 14.2/14.3hh at most!!
Our 16 months Anglo Yearling is standing a full up 15.2hh...time will tell what height he will make??
Babs
www.SunrayAngloArabianStud.co.uk
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| Debbie |
Posted - 08 Oct 2010 : 08:09:58 AM
With the knowledge that I might be shot down for saying this.....I believe an awful lot of us 'over-height' our arabs. I know I have been very guilty of that in the past. Now that I also have show ponies who require JMB height certificates I am astounded at the difference from measuring them at home with a proper stick to having them measured on a pad by an expert. I thought my 4 yr old was 13.2hh (138cm) and it turns out he is only 132cm. My arab mare looks a full up 15.2hh but she is in fact only quarter of an inch over 15.hh - bigger than my stallion who I always said was 15.1hh!! |
| Qui Gon Jinn |
Posted - 07 Oct 2010 : 11:02:08 PM
Wow, that is tall Pashon!! Where on earth is all this extra height coming from these days? Could it be something to do with how we keep our horses, in terms of the quality of feeding etc? |
| Pashon2001 |
Posted - 07 Oct 2010 : 10:32:45 PM
I just had a check on the height calculator on the website of the old link and my 'little' girl aims to be 16.1 apparantley......................geesh....................stable extension needed!!! |
| nikki83 |
Posted - 07 Oct 2010 : 10:18:38 PM
I measured my boy a couple of weeks ago and he was 14.1.
Nikki x |
| Emma B |
Posted - 07 Oct 2010 : 9:52:41 PM
my boy was two in april and is 15.2 he is much bigger than he should of been fully grown |
| Pashon2001 |
Posted - 07 Oct 2010 : 9:43:59 PM
I always had the old adage of putting a hand on a long yearling (ie one around 15-18months old) but in saying that one of my fillies was 14.2 as a yearling and is now 15.3 at 27 months!! And she's purebred!! |
| Qui Gon Jinn |
Posted - 07 Oct 2010 : 9:41:43 PM
Maverick is much improved Kharidian, thanks for asking. He is happily playing with his traffic cone again and running about quite happy.
Chips and Mav do sound very similar!! You could well be right about Mav making more than 15.1hh. He is much longer legged than Merlyn already and some of his sibblings and half sibblings have made 15.3hh.
Very interesting link Kastell, thanks for sharing it. |
| Kharidian |
Posted - 07 Oct 2010 : 5:00:25 PM
Personally I wouldn't expect a yearling at 13.2hh now to make more than 14.2hh when fully grown (but I haven't looked at the Height Calculator).
Chips is a May '09 gelding, last measured a couple of months ago at 14.1hh, at least 14.2hh now (but considerably higher on the quarters) - today I realised that he's taller on the back end than his April '08 purebred companion! 
Chips has always been expected to make 15.2hh-15.3hh which is bigger than both his parents, so not a surprise to me.
Caryn
Qui Gon Jinn - Chips & Maverick sound about the same - I bet Maverick'll do more than 15.1hh. How is he now - getting over his castration better? |
| kastell |
Posted - 07 Oct 2010 : 2:08:53 PM
Here's a link to an old topic I posted, with another link to a height calculator, it's very interesting! My yearling is just over 14.1 & I expect her to make about 15hh, when she's stood next to her field mate whose 14.3hh, her bottom is just a smidge lower than hers!
http://www.arabianlines.com/forum1/topic_new.asp?TOPIC_ID=40837
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| Esther |
Posted - 07 Oct 2010 : 07:38:03 AM
Wolf's genes say he is to make about 15 hands unless he throws back to one of the more enormous saddlebreds in his past. He's about 14 hands at the moment. I think that's about right as he's about a hand smaller than his mate who is due to make 16-16.2 hands. |
| Qui Gon Jinn |
Posted - 06 Oct 2010 : 11:32:49 PM
I expect Maverick to make about 15.1hh......mind you he is 15 months old and just over 14.1hh already!!
When you see him standing beside Merlyn (just a smidge under 15hh) he really doesn't look much smaller.........gulp! |
| honey |
Posted - 06 Oct 2010 : 10:45:20 PM
Well my two year old filly was standing 14h last november approaching her 2nd year and i expect her to make 15h1/15h2. Shes now 14h2 and rising three. |
