How to measure your horse’s weight

So you need to know how much your horse weighs! Maybe so you can calculate your feed, discover how much wormer to give or perhaps you’re trying to calculate the weight to travel your horse.

There are 3 Main ways to discover how much your horse weighs

1 – Using a weighbridge (most accurate but who has one at home so you will need to organise a visit)

2 – Using a Weigh Tape (gives an approximate weight easy to do)

3 – Using a Soft Household Tape Measure and our FREE Body Weight Calculator (Quick easy and can be done today)

USING A WEIGHBRIDGE

This is the most accurate way but would need someone who has a weighbridge.

Many feed companies have one and will often arrange a visit.

USING A WEIGH TAPE (gives approximate weight)

Simply:

🐴 Make sure your horse is standing on a flat area

🐴 Hold the “0” end of the tape + pass the other end over the horse’s back

🐴 Bring the end of the tape under your horse, around his barrel (where the girth sits)

🐴 Pull the tape to meet the “0” end + read the weight

🐴 Use that to calculate the amount of wormer needed

USING A SOFT TAPE MEASURE & OUR CALCULATOR (approximate weight)

Simply:

🐴 Download the calculator

🐴 Stand your horse on a flat area

🐴 Measure your horse’s length from point of shoulder to point of the buttock in inches

🐴 Measure your horse’s barrel from behind the withers and around the girth area in inches

🐴 Plug your measurements into our calculator

🐴 Note your horse’s weight and date taken in the history

You also need to know your horse’s weight to calculate feed, and condition, and transporting it helps!

When did you last weigh your horse? (Don’t make excuses you only need a tape measure!)

Do you want to get your hands on our free equine bodyweight calculator?

We hope this helps you discover your horses weight. Remember its really hard to guestimate and most of the time horse owners underestimate weight (rarely overestimate).

If you are calculating the amount of wormer to give you need to allow for spit out (yep they do spit it out!) so better to overdose than underdose.

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