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The mobile horse scales were at our stables today. My horse weighs 509kg according to them, which fits my estimate of "around 500" and the clinic's result (505 around 2 months ago).
Last year we had a different weighing service come in and the results were kinda confusing, because my estimate was off by 80kg. I asked in a forum (not Reddit) if anyone had ever had a case of wrong results from the scales and people were being extremely nasty about it, that the better question would be if anyone had ever been way off about their estimate and that I was just stupid. They were suggesting all kinds of mean stuff about my intelligence and horse care capabilities. It really made me doubt myself and my vet and my farrier and my trainer and our ex barn owner who all had estimated about the same as I had. We were all baffled. I had considered taking my horse to an equine clinic because of the difference to my estimate (only clinics and weighing companies have scales in my area) and the online people convinced me I'm just stupid. So I didn't go after another weigh-in and the clinic only did it a while back because we were there anyways.
Well, I'm not mad. The new weighing service today had lots of people at our new barn looking really relieved because their experience last year was the same as mine - wild results that didn't match their estimates and previous results and their horses weight history. As in oldie obviously gained weight but the scales say he's worse than ever. I wasn't there last year because I was sick so I couldn't talk to people then and I talked to people now. Everyone is so glad that this year's result from my horse roughly match the clinic's result from a while back because now we're all really sure last year's scales were wrong in some way.
Lesson learned: Online communities are nasty, trust your gut, especially if your gut matches the one of your trainer and vet and farrier and ex barn owner (we moved 800km, we're in good standing with our ex barn owner).
Here's a pic of my goldilocks because I'm just relieved I'm not mad.
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Hard to explain but the bone structure makes measuring either with weight tape or by weight calculations inaccurate in many cases. This can make something like feeding a yearling difficult because there is a maximum weight of feed a horse can handle in a single feeding. A 600lb yearling can handle 3lbs per feeding, an 800lb yearling can handle 4 lbs per feeding, and depending on how you need to go about feeding this horse based on your management practices, that can be a big difference.
If the horse isn't a typically-structured adult horse that weight tape probably isn't going to be right.