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[RC] small 3 year old - Karen Bratcher
I have a coming-three-year-old colt (born in July) who is really small, according to the weight tape he is 13.3 hands and about 700 lbs. He is not and never has been thin, is wormed quarterly, received lots of Omolene 300 and then 200 since weaning (cut him off last fall because he was getting overly fat), and has free choice access to grass hay in the off seasons or lush grass pasture in spring and early summer; plus some soaked beet pulp daily, including a special Northwest feed supplement containing selenium when I stopped the Omolene.
He's not just short but also not very wide or long. His parents both have solid working-horse CMK Arabian pedigrees, they are not large horses either but are taller and much longer and wider than him. I'm just wondering if I should bother keeping him, because I am a middleweight rider... I've always had small horses but he seems SO tiny!
Karen Bratcher aka Ready
Athol, Idaho
karenbrat1 "at" earthlink "dot" net (ignore automated message re not being in my address book, if you reply privately)
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