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Firstly i aplogise if the picture is huge but photobucket is not playing ball tonight :-(. Anyway how do you think he's looking? He's 16.3hh and was very overweight when we first got him last september. He is never going to be thin as he is a shire x cob but we've tried very hard to get and keep weight off, any comments (don't be too harsh though), i can't ride him as much as i'd like as i have a very busy job as a vet nurse and do 10hr days.
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He looks massive!!! Or you must be very short!! Hehe!! Hes loovley!!
I love the big one - there much more friendlier!! :D:D
 
He is a big lad (I'm not that small) he doesn't feel big to ride (when he's behaving!) but it's a long way down when you get off :-)

He is a lovely boy, can be a bit of a brute but not nasty. He's like a big labrador really, although my friend said the stork got mixed up as he's really a shetland pony stuck in a shire's body ;-)
 
The great thing is that you know to watch the waistline but you know he is a handsome brute and I can understand why you are giving him a huge hug...he is gi normous!
 
That's what I'm cautious of, my instructor knew him in his last but one home and said he's about the same weight now. He is being strip grazed with two meals of chaff/high fibre cubes a day, i move his fence every weds/sat and this is keeping his weight stable. Come winter he'll mainly go out unrugged again with plenty of hay xx
 
Well I think he's lovely but then I prefer heavy horses, having had 2 clydies and a shire in the past.
I feel your pain about the dieting, my latest horse is so big that we can't get a weight on the tape, have to measure her in cms. She's lost 10cms since we bought her in Feb. We are seriously considering giving her a bib clip and no rug, to encourage weight loss over the winter.
TBH I can't really tell about his weight from the photo but he doesn't look massive.
 
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