Horses Weight - lb's or kg's? Confused!

[BorgRae]

Ok, so I'm rubbish with weights and could just do with knowing how much an average 15hh horse would weigh..

500lb's or 500kg's??

I understand this is very much finger in the wind regarding a 15hh horse, but don't know if they weigh in kg's or lb's!!

Thanks for replies!

 

[forestfantasy]

Kilos!
500kg is about right depending on type for a 15hh.
Mine is 16.1hh WB x Anglo arab and is about 630kg.

 

[Bertolie]

Usually weighed in kilos. 500 kg sounds about right. 500lbs for a 15hh horse would only equate to 227kgs aprox which would be very underweight.

 

[BorgRae]

Phew!!! Thank you! I just had to double, triple check!

"Someone" said that he should only be eating an absolute max of 15lb's of hayledge/hay a day?!

I like to ad lib feed and he gets a lot more than that!

So i've been working out his daily recommend hayledge allowance, taking into consideration 2.5% of his bodyweight, and if he weighed 500lb's, he'd only get 12.5lb's a day! He has that in one night net!!!

So I can rest easy knowing that he is "recommended" to have 27.5lb's a day and can now argue the point!!

Thanks again! hehe!

 

[madeleine1]

my 16hh european sport horse is 520kg atm

 

[Lotty]

My 16.1hh warmblood x welsh D weighs 584kgs and she looks just right.