Your horse’s body condition score tells you how much fat and muscle your horse is carrying on a scale from 1 to 9.
“(A score of) 5 is the ideal,” says Anna Bracken, DVM, clinical instructor in equine field service at Colorado State University. “That’s a horse that’s fit, that’s not overweight, that’s not underweight.”
To determine a horse’s body condition score, you’ll need to do a hands-on assessment, which she demonstrates in the video below.
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