Fat Ponys or Looking Ok?

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Just wondered if someone could give their opinion of how ponies are looking coming out of winter (no one has been worked since nov so i know they have know muscle!)

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Couldnt get minis as they wouldnt stay still!
 
Must be the grey gene.. the ID x TB and the grey pony look to be a bit 'too' round with grass coming through, the others look good. First TB looks a bit 'bellyish' - wormed regularly?
Sure they'd all look very smart when wearing proper summer coats. Happy grooming!
 
The only ones that look nothing like pancake are tb number 2 and 3 and actually the fjord looks ok. The rest of them ate all the pasties. They got crests like my bull...

That second pony has cellulite like I have never seen before! It even has fat in its eye socket!

Hey, you asked, I'm saying....
 
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Photo's are so subjective. I sent a pic of my boy to a friend and she commented on how fat he was. I had just done a score on him, he came up 2 - 2 1/2 on the 5 scale. She saw an outline and a winter coat not the real body.

I actually think your horses look fine. Difficult to comment without knowing age and what work they are currently doing. The grey looks as if it could lose some weight, but could be wrong.
 
Beans2000 said:
Nooo all pets! That dont earn there keep! :D

All wormed regulary!

Tallyho do you mean you think 2,3 are the only 'decent weights'
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No beans, I am saying those two and the fjord, I edited to add that bit, look healthy. The rest are cresty and fat. They are what I would call overweight.

Decent is a misnomer. What do you mean by decent? That could mean anything, subjective to you or what people consider decent to be.
 
photos are very deceiving and so are crests;) my ginger boy has a huge crest from where he was previously obese, i have let him lose enough weight this winter so that you can just see his ribs but he still has a huge crest! if i take a pic from a certain angle i could make him look like a fatty, take it from another angle i could make him look skinny;)
 
Ok, photos can be deceiving but from those particular photos, there are some diet candidates :)
 
Looking a bit too good in general considering the grass is starting to come through, but I am sure once they are back in work they will shape up.

The only one that would really worry me was the last one - looked like it had a laminitic stance, but hopefully just the angle of the photo.....
 
Sidney said:
Looking a bit too good in general considering the grass is starting to come through, but I am sure once they are back in work they will shape up.

The only one that would really worry me was the last one - looked like it had a laminitic stance, but hopefully just the angle of the photo.....
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Will keep an eye out, think its just they funny photp :)
They all started on the walkers on monday :eek: shock to there system!
 
Beans2000 said:
I just meant 'decent weight' by what you would class :)
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Ok, well, decent to me is healthy. Not fat and not thin, no crest or LGL signs. To me, only a few of yours are in that category. The rest are unhealthily over that threshold from what I can see in these photos. I hope you can see that too. It is hard to see it in your own horses when you see them everyday, maybe they still have winter coats but that unmistakeable crest is a big giveaway to me at the very least. I am not trying to be horrible, I just want to be honest. Hope you can appreciate that. No one likes to hear that the ponies are overweight coming out of winter, nearly all at my yard are the same! Not a good look!
 
tallyho! said:
Ok, well, decent to me is healthy. Not fat and not thin, no crest or LGL signs. To me, only a few of yours are in that category. The rest are unhealthily over that threshold from what I can see in these photos. I hope you can see that too. It is hard to see it in your own horses when you see them everyday, maybe they still have winter coats but that unmistakeable crest is a big giveaway to me at the very least. I am not trying to be horrible, I just want to be honest. Hope you can appreciate that. No one likes to hear that the ponies are overweight coming out of winter, nearly all at my yard are the same! Not a good look!
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Dont think you are being horrible! They have started new exercise regimes and hopefully after a few weeks on walker and a good groom and tidy i'll be posting different pics up :D
 
The grey pony would worry me TBH and would be on a strict diet (which might mean off grass altogether until quite a few kilos had gone, or certainly muzzled). Some of the others a bit too good condition. A couple incl the Fjord look fine.
 
The first one has a bit of a belly but isn't overweight, if its not age/ ex broody I'd check she's been wormed recently. Next 2 look ok but think the rest are too big for spring imo, especially for the natives.
 
I think your grey is over weight I'm afraid. She has no shoulder definition and a bit of a (solid?) crest and biggish bum and belly. If the crest is solid, it is fat.

Some of the others are also overweight imo from those photos. When you run your hand down the neck it should bump into the shoulder not slide over. Any rippling or dimpling is fat.

Have a look here. http://www.worldhorsewelfare.org/information/right_weight_advice

I am still dieting one of mine.
 
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