Knowing how much your horse weighs
is important for weight management, feeding and deciding how much medication to
give.
Weigh tapes and Apps for estimating
a horse’s weight are available, based on body length and girth circumference.
However, differences between breed and body type can lead to inaccuracies.
The Healthy Horse App, recently
updated, claims to produce more accurate results. Produced by the University of
Minnesota, it calculates weight using new equations developed through University
research.
As well as body length and girth,
measurements of height and neck circumference are used.
Breed types catered for include Adult
Arabians, draft horses, adult and juvenile miniature horses, stock horses,
saddle-type horses, ponies, Warmbloods, and Thoroughbred.
The Healthy Horse App gives an estimate of an equine’s
actual and ideal bodyweights but is not intended to replace an examination by a
qualified professional. It has been developed for i-phones and i-pads and is
now available in both Spanish and English. Users can enter measurements in
either imperial or metric units with results displayed in either pounds or
kilograms.
For more details, see:
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