Compare & contrast these photos for me please

Errr are you asking about condition? Can't imagine what else! I'm not great at that but I'll play just to see how I score against people who know what they're on about ;)

I'll say: tubby, lean, tubby (but not as much), fit..? :D
 
Floxie said:
Errr are you asking about condition? Can't imagine what else! I'm not great at that but I'll play just to see how I score against people who know what they're on about ;)

I'll say: tubby, lean, tubby (but not as much), fit..? :D
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tankgirl1 said:
I don't know much, but that's what I thought too :)
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Thanks for your responses! They're great. The reason I was asking is because I keep mine at home and see them day in, day out and Raffy is a different type/shape to anything I've ever had before so I always wonder about him. He's short coupled, but with quite a wide rib cage, so I spend a lot of time wondering whether he's too fat/thin.

First picture - couple of days after I got him - definitely fat!

Second picture, a few months down the line after dieting, but note still a lot of muscle under the neck and nothing much on the back end.

Third and fourth picture taken recently, only a couple of weeks apart but first flush of grass had come through just before third and had done more fittening work by fourth.

It's just nice to know that others see what I see. Oh, and he's 20 by the way, 17 in the earlier pictures. :) x

kickandshout said:
i would say . . . .how nice to have a different coloured horse for each season !!!!! looks fine to me ( am i missing something here????)
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I keep meaning to take a picture every week/month - he really does change a lot! :) x
 
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Is he a connemara? Very similar to my friends horse and he does the whole roan winter coat thing but he's more dun than bay in the summer
 
We have a horse with the same colour changing tendencies. We call him Pink Pony mostly, and confuse people no end as he's currently a very dark, flecked white, orange :D

He looks good in the most recent photos, ponies are hard to judge when you see them every day.
 
Lolo said:
We have a horse with the same colour changing tendencies. We call him Pink Pony mostly, and confuse people no end as he's currently a very dark, flecked white, orange :D

He looks good in the most recent photos, ponies are hard to judge when you see them every day.
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Thanks Lolo - Raff is known as the Patchy Pink Pony too. :p It is hard to tell when you see them all the time and last year (not pictured) he ended up a little too lean I think. He came to us rather too well covered but lacking muscle in the right places and I was thinking that he did look good at the moment, especially for 20, but it's nice to have it confirmed by others. :)
 
Looks best in the last two pictures (where he is clipped). Bit of a barrel, so hard to tell when he's porky, but looks about right in those last two pics.
 
Cortez said:
Looks best in the last two pictures (where he is clipped). Bit of a barrel, so hard to tell when he's porky, but looks about right in those last two pics.
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Thank you. He is barrel shaped so I've had to learn to look at other ways of telling whether he's fat because sometimes when I look at him head on he looks it, but then I can feel his ribs quite easily. I'm very careful to keep the weight off him as he has apparently (per previous owners) suffered from laminitis in the past, although in my opinion he was too fat when I got him (first picture).
 
I'd agree he looks best in the last one, and looking very good for his age. Looks like a different pony in the second one, and doesn't he change colour?! No wonder you find it hard to judge!
 
Bernster said:
I'd agree he looks best in the last one, and looking very good for his age. Looks like a different pony in the second one, and doesn't he change colour?! No wonder you find it hard to judge!
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Thank you. :) The second picture was taken around 3-4 months after I got him. Managed to get all the fat off him, but then what was left was muscle in the wrong places. Having to give him a couple of months off work due to the snow actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise because he lost all the over developed under neck muscle which then made it easier to put it back on in the right places. Not only does he change colour, he also grows a very fluffy coat as he is rugged the least of my lot because he tends to get too warm. That makes it even harder to see, and he doesn't do enough to warrant being fully clipped out. :)
 
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