Mine was born on May 10, 2007. He measured 15.0 hands this morning! His mom is 15.2 Calimero I - Caneval - Cor de la bryere (both her parents were 16.1) and his dad Alla’czar(16.3) - Zeus. Any guesses on his future height? How do you do the string test from the knee to cornet band? Do you hold the tape straight or let it curve with the leg? How accurate are the string tests in your experience?
My BWP filly was born May '07 and it currently 15.3. Both of her parents were around 16.1h so I think she was just an early bloomer.
My vet came out to the barn recently and said, I thought you were getting a baby. I said I did, she’s right there next to Lu (my retired jumper who is only 15.2). He was like :eek: that’s no baby!
Wow and I thought mine was tall!:eek:
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Mine was born on May 10, 2007. He measured 15.0 hands this morning! His mom is 15.2 Calimero I - Caneval - Cor de la bryere (both her parents were 16.1) and his dad Alla’czar(16.3) - Zeus. Any guesses on his future height? How do you do the string test from the knee to cornet band? Do you hold the tape straight or let it curve with the leg? How accurate are the string tests in your experience?[/QUOTE]
String test (held taut) is accurate DEPENDING on if the cannon is proportional. For a horse with a long cannon proportionally then it will measure too big and for a horse with a proportionally short cannon it will errr on the side of short. My 14.3H in front/15H behind TB filly will be 2 in April and her string test says she will be 14.3/she has a really short cannon…so it is not accurate on her!
My 07 colt was just shy of 14.1H last I measured him in Feb./he is a May foal. Dam is 15.1H+ and sire 16.1H. His legs were longer than his dam’s at birth so no way he will be 15.1H! His hocks are about at the same height now as his half brother who looks like he will mature to 16.2H…so I figure at least 16.2! (His 16.1H sire has a bunch of 16.3H family members and most of his kids, even out of small mares, are maturing over 16H).
My 2 both born early June are both about 14.2-3h. I have not measured them recently but the gelding is a bit bigger than the filly at this point. They should both be about 16.2h, the boy may be 16.3h. His sire is 16.2h & his dam is 17.1h. The filly’s sire is 16.3h & dam just barely 16h. They both string test at 16.2h.
My first foal was 14.3h at 18 months and barely 15.3h at 3. He finally finished at 16.2 1/2h as a 5 year old. He is by an Alme son out of a Pregelstrand daughter.
I thought my baby was big…he was born late June and hes 14.1
I haven’t put a stick on my May 1st boy, but he seems about 14.1/14.2. His daddy is 16.3 and momma is 16.1 1/2, so he better get 16 at least! Can I do the string test at one year?
Born March 2007. Filly.
Currently 15.2H
Anglo Arabian (70% TB and 30% Arab).
My colt (WB/TB, who is by Nob Hill) was born February 26th. Sire: 16.3 ; Dam: 16.2 Looking at him today, he appears to be around 14.3-15.0 hands. I have not put a stick on him yet. In the last month I have noticed him growing like a weed!
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My filly whose dam is a 15.1 Trakehner mare and sire is Contucci (16.3 1/2) is about 14 hands (foaled 5-15-07). My fillly whose dam is a 16.2 tb and sire is Regulus (16.2) is 14.2 (foaled 5-29-07). I’m hoping the Contucci foal will get to 16 h and I’m thinking the Regulus filly will be the size of mom and dad :lol: I guess I’ll find out in a few years :yes:
We had 6 last year…4 colts, 2 fillies
#1 - 17 hand sire, 16.3 hand dam - 15.0 at the withers, 15.2 behind 4/17/07 colt
#2 - 17.2 hand sire, 16.3 hand dam - 15.0 1/2 at the withers, 15.3 1/2 behind 4/22/07 colt
#3 - 17 hand sire, 16.2 hand dam - 14.3 at the withers, 15.0 behind 5/22/07 filly
#4 - 17 hand sire, 15.3 hand dam - 13.1 at the withers, 13.2 behind 6/3/07 colt
#5 - 17 hand sire, 15.1 hand dam - 12.3 withers/hind 6/6/07 colt
#6 - 17.2 hand sire, 16.2 hand dam - 13.0 at the withers, 13.1 behind 6/8/07 filly
#2 is going to be very tall. The top of his rump is at my eyeline & I’m 5’7"… :eek: I will need the 4 step ladder to mount that one. :lol:
Colt, born late June '07, 16.2 sire, 15 dam (a twin) = 13.2H.
May filly sticks at 12.1hh
sire 14.2 dam 13.2
RPSI Filly, born 6-20-07 is just shy of 14hh. Dad is 16.2hh and mom is 15.1hh
Tasker - Thats enheartening to hear about your 12.3h little guy. My connemara/TB colt, out of a 14.3h mare by a 16.2h TB, I just recently sticked at 12.2h. He was born 5 June 07… am hoping (praying?) that he’ll get to 15.2h. He looked really awkward today, growth spurt impending maybe? Please? :lol:
My TB colt, born 27 April 07, is a bit small for what he should be at 13.3h. He has been a rehab case, though… came to me wormy and thin and looking not so great last fall. His sire is 16.2h and his dam is 16.1h. Looking good now, and his hind end just shot up about 2 inches, so he may catch up.
are you having “spring”
My 2007 colt seems really small. Mare 15-2 sire 16-3 compared to all the other foals I have raised. The questions is for those with taller yearlings…have you finished with winter??? I was wondering because until this week we have had really a cold and snowy winter (Colorado) and I wonder if my colt will “spring” up as the weather warms up. We have no green grass yet and the pastures are just starting to thaw. No shedding of their coats yet either. Funny though the brood mares are shedding like crazy but the yearling is not.–Just curious. Colt is a May 28th baby.
Innfilly - the smaller guy is really proportional for his size (just like his 2 full siblings). We think he will end up between 15.2-16.0…a fine size really as not everyone wants a super tall horse. His full sister (05) is 15.1 and has gotten a bit lanky…so she is about to grow a bit more too. The full brother (06) is about 15 hands, so perhaps he will be the ‘tall’ one of the 3. 
krfarms - we have been having shifts between spring/winter for about a month but the grass is sprouting and the horses have been shedding for quite a while.
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My 2007 colt seems really small. Mare 15-2 sire 16-3 compared to all the other foals I have raised. The questions is for those with taller yearlings…have you finished with winter??? I was wondering because until this week we have had really a cold and snowy winter (Colorado) and I wonder if my colt will “spring” up as the weather warms up. We have no green grass yet and the pastures are just starting to thaw. No shedding of their coats yet either. Funny though the brood mares are shedding like crazy but the yearling is not.–Just curious. Colt is a May 28th baby.[/QUOTE]
I do think we are having and early spring here this year (woo hoo!) but it’s not like the weather is balmy and we have pasture yet. It is still 28 at night but the field IS starting to turn from dead grass brown to having as haze of green on it as the days are now in the 40s, the robins/geese returned early this year and the mares here started coming into heat a week or 2 ago…early March. Last year when we had that horribly late/cold spring my mares didn’t even start cycling until the end of April! My horses started lightly shedding about a week or so ago but the big globs of hair are not coming out yet. I am not seeing any big growth spurts from the kids yet. The yearling has been on the slow and steady plan/he has been a good size since the day he was born/ had not had many uglies. The now 2 YO was small at birth, grew very little as a weanling, started to grow a little more as a yearling (and all in the butt/none in front so she was a still short and VERY ugly yearling!!) and it looks like her front end is finally starting to catch up to her eternally butt high self! Both are by the same stallion. Both foals (yearling and coming 2 YO) are out of 15.1H mares but one is 14.1 at 10 mos old and one is 14.3 at 23 mos old. The yearling will soon pass his sister that is 13 mos older at this rate!!
It feels like a late spring to me!!
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Um, okay, so how do you do the string test again? I know there’s been threads on this before but it’s too late to search. My filly is 9 months old, born June 6/07. She is VERY tall, I’m thinking around 15H just looking at her. Is it: start at ergot with string up to point of elbow, then flip bottom of string up past withers while holding at elbow? I don’t have a stick per se, will try the measuring tape this weekend.
