How big did your horses get?
Since I've been told several times here (through my last question) that my pony probably won't grow as much anymore, I'll just ask the community:
How much have your 1.5 year old horses/ponies grown?
My mare, at 1.5 years old, is only 133cm. But we measured her using a simple method (stick, angle, and spirit level), and I estimate she's slightly taller. Currently, she's still quite a bit taller in the hindquarters.
Since nobody can tell me how big she will be, as it depends on many factors, I would be interested to know if anyone here has followed the growth process of their own horse😊
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You can’t say that comes on the horse, my old mare has been overbuilt at 6.5J. Our Wallach was 2 years 143cm and now (4 year) almost 170cm and overbuilt. So you can’t say that flat.
My young animal became significantly larger than the breeder had “pronounced” XD With 1.5 years he will probably have had about 1.45m. Today at 3.5 years he has 1.52m.
There’s something else to go, but it doesn’t have to. Depends on many factors. Breed, genetics, food, posture, etc.
you will laugh – it cannot be predicted at all, or it depends on various factors.
for example on the breed. a dartmoorpony has grown almost with three years of height growth. after that it takes another four years to fill in proportion.
a shetlandpony can grow depending on the line of growth until it is ten. the same applies to some reitponys. therefore you will find registered shetlandponys, which are significantly larger than 1.10m and registered reitponys, which are more than 1.50m tall, but with smaller stockmass in the paper.
new forest, connemaras or e.g. fjord horses can also grow for so long, also some warm blood lines are late-growing.
then it depends on when the foal is born, there are races, in which the foals are generally large in proportion and the pregnancy also takes some weeks longer than 11 months in section, without the foal being transmitted. the later born in the year the fohlen, the bigger it is in relation to the stubborn, the faster it develops – not only physically, but also mentally and organic – in the first half year. an oktoberfohlen can hardly be distinguished in the april from a maifohlen – except perhaps that it retains a part of the fohlenflaum during the first fell change.
So – you have to know the exact origin of your fohlens and all relevant eckdaten.
it will remain smaller and not so sturdy and vivacious if it has to grow up without permanent free run-out with space to wide straight run-out and various backgrounds – an open stable, a trail stable, an active stable is not enough.
Yes, that’s why I’m telling myself that it depends on many factors… I would only have been generally interested as it was with others. The origin is unfortunately not comprehensible. With the mother there is only Pony in the pass (so must be German riding pony) and the father is unknown, as the mare came to her ignorantly carrying and nobody knew anything. Something mysterious the whole thing.
Our horses are in the open pit with paddock and pasture access. I’d really like to have a trail, but this isn’t the place there. We carry everything in our own way and can use many pastures, but the paddock cannot be transformed into a right trail. We still have some offers to animate the horses to stand-alone movement😊
Why don’t you give a FOHLEN a damn not in a breeding group, but let it go in cramped conditions???
an open stable, an active stable, a trail run is NOT sufficient for fohlenaufzucht.
how many times you have to say, so that people don’t let their foals go away with purpose.
but the debt is of course also the stall operators. with us you would not get a stable place for a foal – simply because under louder adult horses and ponys in a stable group structure as single foals just goes mercilessly.
psychologically disturbed horses emerge from such attitudes. badly socialized, anxious, insecure – or even trustless horses that can only care for themselves and that also show to their rider that they think he is incompetent – they simply run off or tear away permanently or overrun the human, kick and bite…
by the way, your species of rearing is a violation of the animal welfare law.
Okay, so now I know why it wasn’t a good idea to ask questions. You don’t know the exact circumstances. Not at all. And the tone of the horsemen in the community is really not friendly. That’s how people are buried! I have many people to do me professionally with horses and everyone has a different opinion, everyone thinks his opinion is the only right one. But as you look at me here, I don’t think I’m okay at all. Only that word choice. I have just decided that I am relying on my trusted people here and that I would rather turn to them. If it’s your goal to clarify and give good tips, I’ll find that great! But the way leads only to feeling anything but good and getting some support elsewhere. Actually, it’s better, you don’t know how our horse keeping is, not by the few sentences I’ve written… so tip for the future: try it kindly, enlightening and without directly attacking. That’s how you keep coming.
I will continue to work to improve the attitude of our horses. But with support from the “real” world and not the Internet. You once again showed me that it was stupid to ask a question.