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Weight from a tape

Measure the heart girth and the body length with a tape, and this works out about what the horse weighs.

The tape is in

Many tapes have inches on one side and centimetres on the other. Choose the side you read.

Round the barrel, just behind the withers.

From the point of the shoulder to the point of the buttock.

The horse is

Where this comes from

  • Carter RA and Dugdale AHA, giving the formula of Carroll and Huntington (1988). Assessment of body condition and bodyweight, chapter 22, Indirect measurement. Read itChecked September 2026. Read again by March 2027.
  • The formula. Bodyweight is the girth squared times the length, divided by y. y is 11,877 in centimetres and kilograms, and 330 in inches and pounds. The chapter says it was tested in ponies and light breed horses.
  • The paper. Carroll CL and Huntington PJ. Body condition scoring and weight estimation of horses. Equine Veterinary Journal 1988; 20(1): 41 to 45. 372 horses weighed, 281 of them measured for girth and length, and an average y of 11,900 in its own summary.The paper itself is to confirm: only its summary has been read.
  • Not advice. Your vet is the person to ask about the horse's weight.

Keep this on the horse's record

Choose centimetres or inches, and put in the heart girth and the body length. Then the answer can go on the horse's record as a weight reading.

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