How much should my horse weigh & Grazing Muzzles??

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Does anyone know, roughly, how much my horse should weigh?
She is a 14.3hh heavyweight cob with over 9.5" of bone. Let me find a picture (altho no recent ones)...
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Also, I am going to put her in a grazing muzzle during the day and a bare paddock at night, but when should I put her muzzle on? She is currently in a approx 3 acre field, with 2 other horses, which has a fair covering of very poor weedy grazing.
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Hi,
Not sure how much she should weigh. Though if she is currently similiar to the pic, then I personally would want a little less weight on. It's so much easier to get a bit of weight off now and keep it off, than it is when the grass starts coming through. If she is maintaining her weight or putting it on with the grazing she has access to currently, then I would muzzel for a few hours each day and keep assesing her weight to decide how long to muzzle for. If she is loosing weight from the winter then I reckon you could wait longer before muzzling. Such a game of guess work though with the tricky weather currently!
Loads of luck with it, she is a total stunner!
 
she is lush!!!

my lad is 14.2 hw cob with 11" of bone and he weighs 527kg atm

when he was BIG he was almost 600kg
i always muzzle him in summer and he comes in on a night
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you can see behind her shoulder she has "fat pads"

theres nothing in the grass atm but with all this rain im sure spring grass is on the way!

does she live out 24/7?
if so you could muzzle her through the day and take it off at night

with my lad he was out through the day and in at night last year


this year i am going to try & turn him out at night muzzled and in through the day
this way he'll be off the grass longer & worked more

L&H
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It is a nightmare guessing game sometimes, isn't it?! I would reckon she's actually a bit bigger than that at the moment
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, but it could just be excess hair too!
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lauraandharvey, I saw your "newbie" posts early and thought your Harvey was gorgeous! Molly is weighing in at about 550/560kg at the moment (on a weightape), which is too much, I know, but I can hardly work her at the moment, so I'm fighting a losing battle.
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She is out all day on the poor grazing then in at night with a small haynet with small holes and a scoop of Hi-Fi light to get some supplement into her. My plan is for her to go back out 24/7 by the end of the month.
I can't really put her muzzle on for a few hours because I work most of the time, so might have to resort to putting it on full time during the day then off at night or starvation paddock overnight.
 
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is she clipped?

tbh you will never know her weight without taking her to be weighed properly

if she is that weight
i would want at least 30kg off her before "summer"

wont happen over night
took me 18months to get harvey to his ideal weight
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is she on hay & is she in work?

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She's not clipped no and she's not really in much work at the moment. She gets hacked out for about an hour once or twice a week. When it gets lighter on a night/morning she will be hacked or schooled about 5 times a week, which will obviously help.
 
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do lots of hill work with her
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Unfortunately we are in the East Yorks area and basically at the same level as the sea, so zero hills!! None for miles and miles! And
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she doesn't "do" lunging! Yes, I know I should be teaching her but I don't seem to find the time to catch my own ar$e at the moment
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, but one day I will teach her to lunge. She does long rein (apprently, I haven't the faintest idea how to do that
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) but that's no good when all the space you have to work with is a rather small, badly lit bit of barn!!
 
I have a 15hh welshie of a similar build. He has been on a diet since getting laminitis in August and weighs 440kg...his ideal weight according to the vet is 435kg and at this weight he had lost his crest, shoulder fat pads and gully in his bum. I can easily get the extra 5kg off him in time for spring. But it is amazing just how much they can carry without you realising it!
 
My mare was 14.3 welsh cob, perfect weight at 450

I used a greenguard grazing muzzle as found she could eat and drink through it very easily and it didn't rub, it was worth the extra pennies

Lily was at her worst at nearlly 600 once, we won the Fat Horse Slim comp this year!!
 
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