How to Determine how tall a horse will be when they are full grown - Cowboy Hack
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- This is the coolest trick ever to Determine how tall a horse will be when full grown. It's spot on. All you need is a regular measuring tape.
This trick can also be used to figire out how tall a grown horse is without measuring with a weight tape.
Try it for yourself
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There is no way in hell that horse is gonna be 17"1
Yes he will be that tall. He's a Westphalian Warm blood. Dam abd sire are both 17 + hands.
How talk did the horse grow?
This video does not show where you put the end of the tape is it at the ground or at the top of the roof? He just starts out with where you put it on the knee and you cannot see the folks know it might just be the video how it shows up on my phone, but that makes a little hard for
Thank you for the comment.
Honestly, the video was done on the fly because we happen to have a colt that was going to get very tall and he ended up being seventeen three hands high.
You measure from the coronary band around the hoof where the hoof meets the hairline, all the way up to the top of the dimple of the knee.
Then convert inches to hands
Awesome information
Can you give us an update video? It's been three years now.
The colt was 17 hands last I heard about 6 months ago. And still growing.
Didnt ubderstand relation between tha bone measuremento to finall height
That’s not center of knee
I'm not sure how you determine the foal height when mature. The camera didn't show where the end of the tape measure was placed? at the edge of the hoof on the ground? top of coronary band of the hoof? middle or top of hock? as well the tape measure wasn't at center of the knee, you had it at the top of the knee bone? I searched for other videos trying to find your method of determining how many hands a foal will be when matured, but really couldn't find more. Do you still have the foal to re-measure her now that this video was made 3 yrs. ago? Can you make a video to verify she is standing at 17.1 hands showing using the method you did in the video 3 yrs. ago on the foal predicted it would be 17.1 hands?
Yes last ai heard the colt was over 17 hands, so yes it does work as a hack
Rule was top of the coronary band to the top of the dimple in the middle of the knee. It's been a pretty good method to judge colts.
@@lonestarwoman Thank you for the reply of an intriguing way of measuring a horse's height. Learned something new today.
Due to something gray being over your video, I could not see where you were holding the end of the tape. Are you holding it to the end of the hoof the bottom of the hawk or what because when I measured my horse who is 40 inches tall when she was born a measurement said 11 1/2 inches there’s no way she’s only going to grow 4 1/2 inches in the next year or so she was born at 40 inches so I am thinking because I don’t just believe you, that I could not see where you were holding the end of your tape. Please clarify, as there is a gray bar over that photo and
Let me clarify a little bit. You will take a measuring tape in inches from the coronary band, which is the white line right as the hair starts to form above the hoof to the knee where you see a dimple in the knee. This Colt ended up being 17 one hands high. So the amount of inches correlates to the amount of hands the horses going to be. The reason why this works is that the bone from the hoof all the way to the knee never has any muscle on it and is the same length throughout the horse's life and will determine the height of the horse everything else grows that bone does not. That's why colts look like they have such long legs in the very beginning.
From the elbow to the ground then double that upper the elbow
I have always heard that that works but at what age do you take that measurement? Most of the videos I’ve seen the horses were somewhere between six and eight months old
ofcourse from coronary band( not the ground)
17.25*4=69.. it will be 69 inches tall
That horse will not be 17.1 that was not the middle lol he will probably be 15 and a 1/2 16
You are wrong. This colt is 16 hands at 2 years now and still growing.
Thats not true, that bone grow till 2 years
Actually they grow till 4-5yrs old and some breeds still grow until they are 6.
@@aresblue8522 yes sure, but is talking about a bone specific
The third metacarpal bone can still be growing upto the age of 2 years!
Hi, I just saw this video that was shot 3 yrs. ago, anyone know if this guy has 2nd video showing proof that the horse was remeasured to verify the foal did grow to 17.1 hands?