| Help for calculation of body weight |
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You can use the chest circumference to calculate body weight. Click  for help!
Provide a chest girth measurement and click You may also do a backward calculation. Activate a body weight in the table, and click In the drop down list you will find common body weights for different breeds (max/min). How to take a measurement: You need a cm-band, 2 - 2,5 m long. Place the band around the chest in the position shown on the drawing. Tighten the band until you are just able to insert your hand between the skin and the band. Remember that there is commonly an error margin of 5% when you estimate body weight from chest girth. You can reduce the variation by beeing careful to place the band in the same position and try to tightened it to the seme extent every time. Be smart: Take a chest girth measurement at times when you have access to a scale, and try to adjust any systematic errors when you measure the girth. |
The weight in the table is changed.
PC-Horse will estimate the chest girth.