How's she looking - weight wise

ponylover88

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Coming out of winter, how's she looking? She's had a few months of minimal work due to treatment for severe hock spavin but now back hacking again. She won't ever school again.




I weigh taped her today, at 475kg on the tape and 481kg with the equation. She's 15hh, conny x tb good doer, 17 in may.
 
Sorry, body condition score, its a really good way of assessing how they are doing by looking at various fat gathering areas, you have to be hands on to do it as its so difficult to tell from looking alone
 
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She's difficult to condition score as puts weight on in bizarre places, however looking at the bhs one, you can easily feel her ribs, and you can see from the pics, her shoulder definition is there and she has no crest. Pelvis wise, the pics aren't the best as she's trying to reach over the stable door to get to feed (which she isn't able to reach, but does try to get!) so was getting quite grumpy at me pulling her back to get a decent pic!

She's lacking in a lot of muscle, as she's pretty much just been turned out and left bar a few odd hacks, but were building that up now which she seems to be going ok with.
 
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If you score each part individually, add the scores together then divide but the number of different parts you scored (normally 5 - 8) you get a better overall picture. If you can see her ribs and no fat above nutchal ligament or at tails head it sounds like you have her spot on :D
 
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