What height will he make

[jazmineduke]

Hi All,

Just wondered what height would you expect this little colt to make he is 8 months old and standing at 13.2HH now.
What would you expect him to make.

Many thanks

 

[Dexter]

A very rough guide is 2 hands on their yearling height. But they are all individuals. My "supposed to be a sub 15hands sports pony" is currently nearly that height at 17 months!

Another way to check is to use a piece of string to measure from their knee down to the coronet band. The measurement in inches should give an approx height in hands. I am disregarding that however, as mine is a very compact youngster, and it puts him at 16hands plus. Therefore its nonsense as far as I'm concerned

 

[competitiondiva]

A very rough guide is 2 hands on their yearling height. But they are all individuals. My "supposed to be a sub 15hands sports pony" is currently nearly that height at 17 months!

Another way to check is to use a piece of string to measure from their knee down to the coronet band. The measurement in inches should give an approx height in hands. I am disregarding that however, as mine is a very compact youngster, and it puts him at 16hands plus. Therefore its nonsense as far as I'm concerned

I've heard both of these too and at 12 months my lad was 14.2, so that would make 16.2 adult height, also did that string test and that also gave 16.2 as the adult height, it still might be right, but at 21 months old he's already 15.3!

 

[jazmineduke]

A very rough guide is 2 hands on their yearling height. But they are all individuals. My "supposed to be a sub 15hands sports pony" is currently nearly that height at 17 months!

Another way to check is to use a piece of string to measure from their knee down to the coronet band. The measurement in inches should give an approx height in hands. I am disregarding that however, as mine is a very compact youngster, and it puts him at 16hands plus. Therefore its nonsense as far as I'm concerned

So the string thing from knee to coronet is that from the top of the knee?

 

[GinnieRedwings]

The more scientific way to do it is to consider that at 12 months old, most horses will have reached 90% of their final height.
So:
a 13.3/14hh yearling (at 12 months old) should make about 15.2hh
a 14.1/14.2hh yearling (at 12 months old) should make about 16hh
a 14.3/15hh yearling (at 12 months old) should make about 16.2hh
a 15.1/15.2hh yearling (at 12 months old) should make about 17hh

Obviously, all horses are different...

 

[MrsMagoo]

I hope this isn't true boo otherwise my boy is gonna be too small lol although he had liver issues which have slowed things down so I'm crossing my fingers...

 

[luckilotti]

Hi All,

Just wondered what height would you expect this little colt to make he is 8 months old and standing at 13.2HH now.
What would you expect him to make.

Many thanks

Snap! I have a 8 month old colt who is at 13.2 at the moment
what is the height of your boys sire/dam?

Mines dam is approx 14.1 and the daddy - unknown as she was bought infoal with no covering details

 

[jazmineduke]

Dam is 14.3HH
Sire is 15.1HH
was hoping for a 15.1HH or bigger,
I had a arab x mare and she was 15HH
Dam was 13HH
Sire was 14.2HH

 

[micramadam]

I have an 8.5 month old Dutch WB colt who is currently 14.1hh. We think he will reach 17hh. Dam is 16.1hh and sire 17hh. Don't want him much bigger than that as daughter is only 5'5".