How much will a 2 year old warmblood colt grow?

Question

Im looking at a 2 year old warmblood colt who is about to be gelded. At the moment he is a bit scrawny and stands maybe around 14.3hh. Realistically how much will he grow ?

Answer 1

Depends on his Genes first,,, health , feed care, work , room to grow ,



I would wait until he grows a bit more if he is easy to handle?

to be gelded

HAS he been wormed?

It depends on so much

Most Warmbloods are big because most have a draft breed in them and the other a Well bred horse !!!!

Arabs T,B, ARE NOT WARM BLOODS (hot )

Either is Quarter horses ,,a cold blood

So no one knows ,, No one knows how tall he will be ..

But you can test him By a old trick, But its only about 75 percent correct ,, only because due to the breed and if he has been stunted ,,

Get a type measure go to the TOP of coreanet band to the Middle of knee ..straight line AND if it say's 15 inches he MIGHT BE  15 hands ?????

Does Not work all the time .. pretty close thu,,

Answer 2

Are you referring to the American Warmblood? Warmbloods are a 'group' of many breeds of which the American Warmblood breed is included, as also are the Dutch Warmblood, the Belgian Warmblood, the Quarter Horse, Appaloosa, Standardbred, American Saddlebred, Morgan, Tennessee Walking Horse, Missouri Fox Trotter and a host of other warmblood breeds. If you are referring to the American Warmblood, they generally range from 15 hands to 17 hands. But if not you will need to be specific about the breed if you are referring to one of the many other "warmblood" breeds. A 2-year-old is a very young horse and most horses will not reach their full mature height until they are 3 or 4 years old, although I expect most 2-year-olds are at least 95% to 98% of their mature height and that most of the growth from 3 to 5 years old will be packing on muscle. A great many breeders will measure, following the contour of the leg, a newborn foal's leg from the center of the knee to the coronet band where the hair stops at the hoof and use that measurement in inches to fairly accurately estimate what the mature height of that foal will be, that measurement in inches being how many hands of mature height that foal will grow to. It is certainly not a precise predictor of what the mature height will be but it is seldom off by more than a couple inches. If that measurement for example is 15 & 1/2 inches, the mature height of that foal will be 15.2 hands (plus or minus 2 inches). So you might ask them if they took that measurement when it was a newborn foal.