Pleasee help how big will my filly grow

She is a lovely little thing! My guess is that she will make 15.2 to 16.0.

Feeding a youngster at that stage can be a little tricky, the best thing to do is speak to breeder and see if they have recommendations and also make use of the nutritionist advice given by some of the larger companies, we have had some really good advise from them, especially saracen but I would try a few just to make sure you have options and can look at trends. She will have growth spurts, especially in spring and early summer and you want to make sure that you aim for slow but steady growth in between. Be careful of overfeeding as it can cause roblems with orthopedic diseases.

Make sure that you keep a daily check on her condition with your hands as well as your eyes, often you can feel if they are loosing a bit of weight before you can see it, especially if she takes after the cob parent and goes mammoth hairy in the winter.
 
thank you for that , also should i stable her at night so she can rest and grow? and will a alround youngstock / conditioning feed and as lib hayledge be enough or should she be rugged up?
 
laurarose86 said:
thank you for that , also should i stable her at night so she can rest and grow? and will a alround youngstock / conditioning feed and as lib hayledge be enough or should she be rugged up?
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How is being in a stable or wearing a rug going to help her grow?!

*shakes head in disbelief and not just at PL52* :p
 
Eh? She'll grow whether you stick her in a stable or not. It's not like you can buy special horsey gro-bags and stick her in one :confused: If she's running about all night stretching those little leggies it'll promote good healthy strong bones, far better than being cooped up.

I wouldn't be rugging, certainly not at this time of year, and probably not in general. Remember, you don't want her to be fatter, you just want to make sure she's getting enough vits and mins to keep her growth steady.
 
no in sence to been stabled at night is so she can rest and have a sleep, as foals need rest, and she wouldnt get that in the heard, hence been stabled.

and rugging i will be putting a outdoor rug on her as the weather is really bad rain atm and my veteran mare is rugged up as it helps keep her coat nice and thin and shiny ( i hate her woolie for shows u c )
 
Horses can sleep and rest outside. They do in the wild, even in herds, even foals.
My lads have always lived out, 24/7, and they're fine. Harley's lived outside all of his life, even as a foal in the winter.

Rugging her up would keep her quite warm, and there's a risk of her becoming fatter as she won't be using energy keeping warm. If you feel you must have something on her to protect her from the weather, try a fly rug or summer sheet - just one layer and breathable. It's coming into summer, she doesn't really need to be rugged, and she'll be protected from the weather by the oils in her coat.

The main thing is to keep her happy and healthy.
 
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They still sleep, when they're outside you know? And she'll still rest.....foals spend half their time camped out on the ground sleeping with the herd watching over them. It would be far more beneficial to her to be outside stregthening her bones, building up muscle tone, surefootedness etc. She'll also learn herd dynamics quicker than if she were taken from the herd which will really aid you when it comes to teaching manners.

I still don't think you need a rug. It's mild, even when it's raining and you don't want to mollycoddle her - you'll end up spending a fortune on rugs later too! I think you're personifying her a little to much, if you don't mind me saying. Horses are meant to be outside.

Perhaps a rainsheet to keep her dry, if you're that bothered, but nothing much else.

Oops, crossposted with 4WS!

Also, remember she's only very young still. Her bum'll shoot up soon and she'll go through that fugly stage youngsters do when they're all gangly and growing. Make sure she's getting her vits/calories/minerals and leave her to it! She'll soon catch up :) Do you know what heigh her dam and sire are? That would help. I'd say about 15.2, roughly, but that's really only a guess.
 
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Well using the tried and tested mathematical height guesstimator,I would say somewhere between 14.2-15hh.

She's actually coming up at only making 14.1hh,but the method is based on them being a year old and as she isn't I allowing a couple of extra inches for growth in the next couple of months.Of course if she grows a fair bit in the next few months this could change the guesstimate considerably!!

Do you know the height of her parents?? This is one of the better way's to judge height.
 
one theory is to add 2 hands for a yearling and 1 hand for a 2yo.....so that'd make her at least 15.1hh seeing as she's not quite a yearling. (although not sure how it works on TB crosses as TB's gain alot of their adult height in their first year I believe) She could potentially grow a couple of inches until she's a yearling, so I'd say 15.2hh-15.3hh at a guess?
You could always try the string test on her! (but she should be a yearling for that too)
Youngsters also do better being out rather than in - much better for their development :D
 
Apparently if you take a tape measure and measure from the middle of the knee to the middle of the coronet band, that measurement in inches will equate to the horse's adult height in hands...ie 14.5" would make for an adult height of 14.2hh.

I've used it on both my ponies and it seems relatively accurate (13.4" for Dolly who measures about 13.2hh and 13.5" for Kai who will hopefully be about Dolly's height when he grows up).
 
Feeding the filly

Go for slow but steady growth - not too much protein. You can never tell with part bred horses just how they are going to turn out. The parents height wont help much as I bred a filly from a T.B. X Belgian warmblood - both parents were 16.2 filly was only 15 hands when finished growing. I also have a coloured which was supposed to be by a warmblood stallion - no feather as a yearling - but now he looks like a cart horse!!!:eek:
 
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Well my boy was 13.3hh at 12 months. He'll be 3 next month and is now a tad over 16hh, and according to the vet could end up at 16.3hh. He's a CBxTB.

You may well find she could still make 16hh even though she's only 13.1hh at the mo.
 
Think it's difficult to tell as Darcy was a 'normal' foal, no bigger than others and now stands at 16.2hh and was only 2 last week, her parents are both 16.2.

I agree with others though 15.3 ish.

devonlass said:
Well using the tried and tested mathematical height guesstimator,I would say somewhere between 14.2-15hh.
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What's this magical method? Just interested to work out my girl. :)
 
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