Aabri
Active Member
I am rubbish with breeds. Somebody has suggested new forest but he's 16.5 hh. Any ideas?
http://tinypic.com/r/2wcpmbn/8
http://tinypic.com/r/2wcpmbn/8
16.5h really?
Does the owner know what breed it is?
...the owner of the horse surely knows how it is bred?
I may be feeding the troll here but have to ask what do you mean by 16.5hh, that makes no sense.
You are better just asking t5he owner what breed he is, if any particular breed at all. And what height he really is.
hh stands for hands just like cm stands for centimetres
you don’t say ...
I didn't get what you meant. On the website it says approx 16.2. He is a very big horse he just looks very small in this picture from the way he is leaning and the angle of the camera. Who cares anyway, I asked a simple question I don't want to be criticised.
Ok, to be clear, there is no such thing as 16.5hh. Hand measurements work on inches and there are 4 inches per hand. SO there can be 16.0hh, 16.1hh, 16.2hh, 16.3hh but then it goes up to 17.0hh and so on.
The horse, even at a funny or bad camera angle doesn't look tall enough to be 17.1hh which would be the equivalent of 16.5hh. It just doesn't...a 17.1hh is a very big horse.
It looks more like a 16.2hh approx and as for breeding, I would say it's a bit of a heinz 57.
The owner should know the answers to these questions and if there is no breed info in the passport, you could, at cost, get it DNA checked, but it's a lot of money. If you like the horse and are having fun...breed is irrelevant.
We aren't born knowing everything, so we all have to learn.
If the horse suits you, don't worry about the breed. Have fun with him.
thanks so much I didn't know that. Thanks for explaining rather than just obscurely asking things that don't make sense to someone who obviously doesn't know (me) I thought it was just a normal conversion like 16.5hh = 66 inch 17hh= 68 inch
obviously not, thanks again