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Measure a horse from its head?

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horses are measured in hands. there are 14 centimetres in a hand.

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  1. The height of a horse is measured in a combination of hands and inches. One hand is equal to 4 inches. If a horse does not match up with accurately with just hands, then they will also use inches to specify the remainder. For example, a horse that is 10.2 h means 10 hands and 2 inches.
  2. The height of a horse refers to its height up to where the neck meets its back, rather than all the way up to its head, because they head continually changes level depending on a horse's position.
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a horse is measured in hands

one hand equals 4 inches

a pony is 14.2 hands or smaller

a horse is 14.3 hands or taller

they have two types of tools to meausre height! ( i dont belive they have a speacial name just a horse hands measuring stick

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You would go to a measured track and have your horse go around it a couple times while timing it and whe you are done you will do the distance divided by the time so you are pretty much going by the distance formula. S=D/T

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A horse is measured by "hands". The term is used to refer to the number of "hands" tall a horse is. If a horse is 15 hands tall then you should be able to measure 15 hands from hoof to withers. Start by putting the back of your hand against the rhorse's hoof (pinky finger parallel to the ground) and stack one hand on top of another until you reach the horses withers or top of shoulders.

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Horses are measured in hands, one hand is equal to 4 inches or 10.160 cm. This measurement is applied to the horse from the ground to the top of the withers, which is the highest point of a horses back.

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you measure a horse in hands(4 inches). you start at the hooves and count your way up to the head :)

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You measure the horse from the top of it's shoulder to the top of the hoof.

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you start at the hooves, then you measure to the withers (at the base of the neck, and start of the back). You measure by hands (four inches)

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a unit of measure called "Hands"

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