TB Weight

[Horseback Rider]

Does anyone know the healthy weight range for a 16.3 hh TB ?
Weighed mine today and is 537kg ?

Or are there any good webistes that have this information?

 

[glenruby]

Yeah, that should be about right - maybe a bit more weight would be good in theory (550-maybe600kg depending on bone). however the most important thing is to go by how he/shs looking rather than weight. Is it an adult horse? NH bred?

 

[Horseback Rider]

Thanks he's 8 and out of work at the moment due to injury. He is a little ribby but he is just a typical TB weight wise !!

 

[bumblelion]

Iv got an exracer, bred for flat who weighs about 560kg

 

[teddyt]

You need to condition score as well as weightape. I have known a 16.2hh skinny TB to be about 510kg on a weightape, lose loads of condition (that he didnt have to lose) and still be the same on the weightape.

Weightapes are very good to monitor weight but if the horse is skinny they dont always detect a difference because they only measure one place. The horse can lose weight behind shoulder blades, on topline, ribs, etc and the tape cant detect it. They are more accurate for rounder types! Tbs withers can make a horse measure heavier than it really is.