potential height of a youngster

[*bouncer*]

forgot is it the measurement from knee to pastern or knee to coronet band?

 

[Navalgem]

Can't be that accurate as some horses I know seem to have huge legs above the knee but tinyc annons and pasterns, though I guess the idea from this is that not much length of bone is put down in the limbs after birth compared to the increase in depth of body.

 

[christine48]

I agree , can't be very accurate as some horses have long cannon bones. Some say a foal is 60% of it's hight when born and we've found that to be accurate to within an inch. eg if foal is 100cm at birth should make 166cm fully grown.

 

[kerilli]

it's elbow to ground, when a yearling, x 2, = adult height, ish... so i was always told, and it's been about right with all mine.

 

[christine48]

I don't think it's elbow to ground or else the yearlings at our place will all be giants. It may be elbow to fetlock x2

 

[Fahrenheit]

They say that an adult horse measures the same between the elbow and and fetlock as it does the elbow and wither, I went round testing it on all my adult horses and could only find one that it didn't work on! But I doubt that will work on yearlings as I have had some tiddly yearling that have rocketed between 2 and 4-5! I would say you could only use it as a rough idea to see if a horse has reached adult height from 2 onwards because the legs on my lot certainly still growing after a year old!

 

[christine48]

I agree elbow to fetlock x 2 works on the adult horses. Haven't tried it yet on the yearlings, but out of interest I will.