How Do You Measure A horse for height ?

Question

How Do You Measure A horse for height ?

Answer 1

Buy a proper measuring stick from your local tack shop, stand your horse square, and have his head level with his withers.

If you are doing BSJA (or any other affiliated competition) you will need to get him measured by a JMB vet, and he'll have to travel to a measuring centre.  He needs at least one annual height cert before he can get a life height cert - and life height is only available to horses over seven.

Answer 2

Measuring sticks are best, especially the ones that have a level built in to make sure that you are holding the arm level. Otherwise, you can get tape measures with hand markings on them (just know that it won't be 100% accurate!).

Retractable horse measure:

http://www.saddlersrow.com/store/item.as...

Answer 3

It's most accurate if you can get a height measure made for horses....it will measure in hands, and the horizontal top bar is leveled over the top of the wither and intersected with the vertical measure stood up alongside the horse from floor to wither, so the intersection of the two marks the exact height marking.

Answer 4

Well every 4 inches is a hand!  !  !

Answer 5

they have height/weight tapes you can buy to measure.... or have someone hold your horse still and take a measuring tape put the end at the hoof and measure to the highest point on the withers or the back then whatever you come out with divide that number by four-- and that will give you how ever many hands tall your horse is -- 1 hand= 4 inches

Answer 6

In our saddle club association you measure a horse from the ground to last mane hair on the withers.  You can buy tapes and sticks for this purpose or you can use a regular tape measure.  You can figure hands by number of inches divided by 4.  If you have any inches left over then you add them to the end.  For instance if your horse is 62 inches tall then he is 15.2 hands because 62 divided by 4 = 15 with 2 inches left over.

Answer 7

From the floor the the withers. Horses are measured in "hands" which are 4 inches. So if you had a 48 inch horse, you divide that by four, and voila! 12 hands :]

Answer 8

If you have a flat floor like a stable floor or concrete have somebody hold the horse square on it. Take the measuring device that you have (a ruler, or a horse measurer from a local store or where ever) and measure the horse from the ground to the top of the withers. Divide the number of inches by four (every hand equals four inches) and presto! You have your horse's height, which might be 14.2 or 16.1 or whatever.

Hope I helped and good luck!

Answer 9

Stand the horse squarely on level footing, like a concrete floor.  Measure from floor to top of withers.  Every 4 inches is considered a hand.  Divide the inches by 4 and you will have your horses height in hands. like 15.2  or what ever.