horses weight

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does anyone know how much a 17.1 large heavy hunter weight should be as curious and havnt got a weight tape ...
thanks

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Mmm - it can vary a bit according to depth/length/porkiness levels.

Bruno DID go on the weighbridge once when hunting fit and tipped the scales at 740kg. Weigh tapes don't help a lot with these biggies as they run out at about 700kg - but with the extra 'notches' AFTER 700 kg, I've guesstimated my 17hh BIG RID stallion at 780 kg (except when he's standing on my foot when it miraculously becomes 2 tonnes!) and a couple of the BIG RID mares (17 hh) when well covered but not into pregnancy fat as between 730 and 760 kg. (Luckily I have lots of foals on whom to use up the left-overs of the 2nd wormer tube!)
 
Around 750kg. If you search the internet I'm sure you would be able to find formulae that allow you to measure girth and length of horse with a normal tapemeasure and convert to weight.
 
You can get one of these things - apparently the girl who invented it did an awful lot of research to get the correct formula and then developed this gadget as she found weigh tapes to be wildly inaccurate. She developed the formula and then patented it. I think she'd do better if she sold it cheaper but hey, ho:

http://www.smartipony.com/page/equicalc


You can also get an iphone app for that! It's called equicalc too but it's not the same formula!
 
Length(cms) X Girth (cms) (little 2, does that mean squared?)
weight (kg) = ____________________________________________________

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That should do it too. I keep meaning to compare it to a tape but maths aren't my strongest point so I always put it off!
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Ooops, that didn't come out like on my screen! Just shunt the top and bottom lines along so they look more like a division sum.
 
Thanks Ester!

There's also another formulae which might be easier which is measure using heart girth (squared) x length from point of shoulder to the hip and divided by 8717. Both taken from The Healthy Horse.
 
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You can get one of these things - apparently the girl who invented it did an awful lot of research to get the correct formula and then developed this gadget as she found weigh tapes to be wildly inaccurate. She developed the formula and then patented it. I think she'd do better if she sold it cheaper but hey, ho:

http://www.smartipony.com/page/equicalc

You can also get an iphone app for that! It's called equicalc too but it's not the same formula!

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I should imagine the cost of develping and patenting it outweighs any profit
 
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