Any one else's 'Long Yearlings' looking hideous at mo?

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Please don't tell me it's just mine? Please!

Where's my pretty little yearling gone?

It's suddenly changed into this leggy, scrawny, narrow, rump-high ugly thing - with a stroppy attitude to match!

I think somone must have stolen my old one and swapped it for this thing
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YUP - one boy looks cool - the other is having a growth spurt and looks like a weedy gangly reject from the rspca (well not QUITE as bad as that and he's a chubby boy....but def not looking like the stunning foal of last year!) No attitude tho.....he's as sweet and cuddly as ever.
 
Aaah, yours is a boy! Mine's a hormonal filly with 'women's troubles' already
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Sure isn't helping her moods - she's worse than her mother when she's in season. Ho hum.

But boy, looking at her at her today - you'd honestly think she was an RSPCA case. She's suddenly shot up and gone SO narrow and ribby. And it was only a month ago that I was eyeing her critically and wondering if she's wasn't getting a tad plump on the enormous amount of ad-lib haylage she gets through daily. Thank goodness it's included in the livery!
 
My yearlings/coming 2yos lok fab, really growing up bless them
My weanlings/coming yearlings. well Tia is still a gorgeous chunky monkey. jack was going through a very gangly ribby yet fat stage, so is being hidden from public view! Luckily he still has an adorably pretty head so dosnt look as bad with his rug on. he is going to be a big boy though
 
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Please don't tell me it's just mine? Please!

Where's my pretty little yearling gone?

It's suddenly changed into this leggy, scrawny, narrow, rump-high ugly thing - with a stroppy attitude to match!

I think somone must have stolen my old one and swapped it for this thing
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Tell us about it! Ours are the same - can't believe how much their attitude has changed since becoming yearlings! Too grown up to do babyish things now, and yes, bum high - scruffy, long manes, all seemed to happen overnight.
 
We responded as ours being yearlings (as they've had their first birthdays - January 2009). Short and Long Yearlings is certainly something new to us - we always say a yearling is a yearling from January 1st regardless of whether it was born in January, June or November.
 
Mine keeps going through the chubby stage then shooting up before my eyes
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Worryingly though, he is standing just under 16hh at the moment and has gone chubby again
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He will be 2 in March, so he only just qualifies as a long yearling I think
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But, his legs are too long for his body still, his neck and head look slightly strange too...
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The colt looks fab, he, 7 months well all but a few days.
The filly how ever, is holding her weight ok but over the past few weeks has really slimed off, has legs up to her chin, bum high she looks a real odd bod, she's a year in may. and already around 15hh to her bum.....told my vet yesterday her name was tiny he laughed.
 
I've never heard of a 'short' yearling before, either.

The term 'Long Yearling', though, is common enough. An older term certainly, but one which describes the horse between 18 months of age and up to its 2nd birthday. Not all horses are racing TB's and need to immediately jump up a year on 1st of January! Someone at our yard has a colt born in November 2007 - he wasn't suddenly a yearling 7 weeks later!

My 19 month old filly won't turn 2 until end of June 2009 - she certainly isn't a two year old yet; doesn't act like a two year old yet or look like one. I am sure by June she'll have filled out, grown and have benefited from the Spring grass. I'll then be happy to call her a two year old - officially
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....she's a year in may. and already around 15hh to her bum

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She's gona be HUGE!
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Mine's 19 months and 15.2 and I thought that was quite big!!! Wow
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Thank goodness it isnt just mine then, he will be 2 in April has just had a growth spurt and dropped weight in 2 weeks so I have brought him in at night.....I dont think the roadworks helped being directly outside his field though as he was too busy hooning around to eat....! Daft arab!
 
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