Fugly stage at 2 3/4 years old? Tell me that this too shall pass!

[Dr_Doolittle]

[QUOTE=Zu Zu;8094557]

Dr.D ~ an easy peasy ‘fix’ here !

Just send dear [B]ELLA to me !!!

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:lol: :lol: :lol:

Nice try, Zu Zu

Corny though it is, she is my heart horse; I did “design her” and plan for her (like the Titanic, I feel like she was “willed into solid existence”), and even though like every other horse, she’s imperfect, she’s perfect to me

That said, if circumstances were to change, I know you would be the best possible caring home (for any horse!), and I wouldn’t hesitate to trust you.

[Elles]

This is a topic on a Dutch forum where people posted pictures of horses when they were foals, then for example when they were yearlings and then as three year olds or older.
http://www.bokt.nl/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1568373

[Elles]

This is my guy at the age of one year and three months:
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Grotefoto-7MYJ8H8H.jpg
I am hoping that he will get back some of that elegance he had at that time.

[Dr_Doolittle]

Elles–what an interesting link! A lot of dramatic changes (over time) in many of the foals pictured, but then again there were some Friesians, ponies, and light draft breeds represented

Your boy is lovely, what a booty on him! That was definitely not an “ugly stage”…Some horses grow different body parts at different stages of development (obviously), but I think the “general rule” is probably pretty accurate, at least when it comes to looking at them at three MONTHS to ascertain general conformation. Some foals haven’t unfolded by 3 days, or are still a little wonky at 3 weeks; so maybe we should just keep looking at the pics of them taken at 3 months, and trust that they will eventually “finish” as a larger and more substantial version of the baby at that age and stage–if we can just remain patient.

I have a picture of my filly taken at her inspection where she looks just lovely (it hangs on the wall, and I’m looking at it right now); she was 2 1/2 months old at the time, so my hope is that the finished product will be just an “age progressed version” of that pretty girl.

Just waiting on those withers…:winkgrin:

[grayarabpony]

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I don’t have any good “ugly stage” pics of my guy as I tried to avoid having records of those phases but I can tell you he grew and changed a lot during his 3 year old year.

Here is a video taken in April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9b8nB72eY

Here is a video taken in July: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152578373699406&set=vb.501539405&type=3&theater[/QUOTE]

Your horse looks lovely. What’s his breeding?

[grayarabpony]

[QUOTE=Elles;8096298]
This is my guy at the age of one year and three months:
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Grotefoto-7MYJ8H8H.jpg
I am hoping that he will get back some of that elegance he had at that time.[/QUOTE]

Elles, your horse doesn’t look fugly to me.

Is he on any Omega3s, perchance?

[Elles]

Thank you for your encouraging words, Grayarabpony.
Did you also see the other pictures of him? To my my eye he still looks like a two year old and not like an almost mature three year old.
No, he is not on Omega3s. May I ask you why you think he might be?

[QUOTE=grayarabpony;8096715]
Elles, your horse doesn’t look fugly to me.

Is he on any Omega3s, perchance?[/QUOTE]

[grayarabpony]

To me he looks like a very well built 3 year old. From the pictures you posted he looks much more mature than my guy did at that age. My horse was gelded at 9 months (he was a June baby and I wanted him gelded before the flies got bad) and when he was 3 he did truly look like he was 2. Also sent you a PM.

He will likely look small compared to warmbloods once gelded, although there are TBs built like tanks too. lol My mare needed work and a ton of forage to keep well-muscled – otherwise people mistook her for a youngster. Although as I say your horse looks good to me as he is.