Weight Tape

[charliesarmy]

I've been sent one courtesy of a Popular Feed Manufacturer and my horse is off the scale it stops t 650K do they make bigger ones?? she measures 227cm round her girth area if that can help anyon guestimate her weight....

 

[scotsmare]

How big is horse???

 

[Cahill]

 

[charliesarmy]

She's 17.3 IDxTB also due to foal end of May

 

[scotsmare]

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She's 17.3 IDxTB also due to foal end of May

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Weighing a fat pregnant lady is just cruel

 

[RLF]

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She's 17.3 IDxTB also due to foal end of May

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Weighing a fat pregnant lady is just cruel

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[charliesarmy]

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She's 17.3 IDxTB also due to foal end of May

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Weighing a fat pregnant lady is just cruel

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Yay I know *hangs head in shame* but I am meant to know how much I should be feeding her ladyship

 

[Cahill]

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ahh,that explains it all then.

 

[RachelB]

TBH I don't think they take into account the fact that you have to get the tape around two horses at once

 

[hellybelly6]

Dodson and horrell is where I got mine from, I think it goes up to 1,000 kg.

I needed one that big as my horse was 795 kg, but is now 740 kg and our aim is 690 kg.

 

[mil1212]

lol
if it makes her feel better tell her I have a weight tape that doesn't go around my 17.3hh gelding either

I have resorted to guesstimating the extra notches, I figure he is around 675kg (and it's all him

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My old 17.2hh id x tb (gelding!) was actually 779kg.

 

[charliesarmy]

I always wormed her at the 800kg guess but lordy know what she is heavily pregnant...although in honesty she doesnt look overly mahoosive...

 

[charliesarmy]

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TBH I don't think they take into account the fact that you have to get the tape around two horses at once

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I guess you could be on to something

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Are you sure you've got it round the right way? I've got a different make (can't remember) and the first time I used it I thought Sunny was off the scale. Turn it round the other way and all is well! NB - weigh tapes for mares that have had foals are unreliable coz they get mummy-tummies - they can give you a reading much higher than they really are.

 

[lizzie87]

maybe try getting two tapes, sew them together and then add the weight of the second tape to that of the whole first! but to be honest you could probably guess at about 750, they are so inaccurate anyway, mine is 55kgs out!

 

[Christmas Crumpet]

My 16.3 TB is 490 kg which according to my weight tape is the average weight for an 18.3hh horse. I was mightly confused...!!!

 

[Shellby27]

Yep weight tape I had for Rosie wouldn't go round her. So I used some string and measure that and worked it out using the tape. Don't think it's very accurate. I know she's a big girl and preggars, but worked out as 1300kg!!!!! Hence why I wear my steel toe caps when i see her!!!!

 

[charliesarmy]

Nope it was defo the right way round.....Box Of Frogs..decided to add her piccie to my siggy as you can see she's a big girl....

ps she's the bay not the grey

 

[Tia]

A girth of 227cms is around 1,500 lbs which is approximately 680kgs.

 

[charliesarmy]

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A girth of 227cms is around 1,500 lbs which is approximately 680kgs.

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Thank you Tia.....muchly appreciated

no more overdosing the wormers

but might have to look at cutting hard feed neddys not gonna be pleased