another pic of the new arrival before his makeover, very skinny and underweight.

As Fiona said, he really isn't that bad.
Groceries, as they used to say, will see him right in a few weeks.

I was expecting a rescue case, this one is just a little bit poor to my eye I wouldn't be worried at about him. Youngsters do tend to look a tad skinny at times, especially if they have had a growth spurt, I have a two year old in one of my paddocks that looks just dreadful, yet I know perfectly well he isn't starving, wormy or anything else.

I bet when he evens up, and fills out he'll be a nice looking horse :)
 
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Ditto he really is not that bad. He is on the light side and in need of some grub, but not awful. His back end looks the worse. Looks like he's possibly been just turned out away in the herd, and possibly could have been in the lower end of the herd order. Might be completely wrong, but that would be my guess.

If he is underweight from genuine lack of food then a couple of weeks out on good grass and he'll be a different horse.

If he's just a lanky weed however like some babies, he could still look 'light' till he's a lot more older and just fills his frame out. Our old warmblood baby was a lean weed for the first 3 years of his life, despite how much feed and haylage you pumped through him, hence why I'm not a fan of pumping their system full of hard feed. He was just very large framed and needed time to fill in the gaps, not food :) It took till he was 5 1/2 to look 'right'.
 
He looks like a 2yo that has had a little grow!! Really nothing to worry about, do not be tempted to shovel hard feed into him
 
He's got a lovely head - very handsome. :)

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I'm looking forward to more photos in a few weeks. :D
 
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