I took these pictures on the same day as the hobble pictures, Tuesday afternoon.
The other day I was in our tack room picking up my saddle when I glanced up on the shelf and saw TWO weight tapes! Boy was I excited. I thought I was going to have to buy one. Turns out, the feed store gave them to husband for being such a good customer (since we don't have any grass, we feed a LOT of grain at the camp). The only thing is, there are two different equations to use to calculate weight- For non-horsey people, the girth measurement is the circumference around the horse's body, just behind his front legs and over the withers (the bump behind their neck). A horse's height is also measured as the distance from the ground to the withers.
The two different formulas were:
1. For ADULT horses, girth x girth x body length / 330
2. For YEARLINGS, girth x girth x body length / 301
Tex's girth width was 53.5, and his body length was 53 (doing the best we could to measure it). When I did the calculations for adult horses, he came out to weigh 460 pounds. I didn't like that number at all, so I decided to try the yearling formula. Using the yearling formula, his weight came out to 504 pounds. That sounds much better, so I've decided to stick with that, just to keep my hopes up! Grow, Tex, grow!
Tex is shedding his winter coat more every day, and he's going to be a beautiful color when it's all gone! I think his rear and backbone muscles (I don't know the technical terms) are filling out.
After I went home that night, I caught my new baby chicks doing something funny! TM
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