Anyone besides me got funky-looking 3 yr. olds??

[tbmorgan]

I thought babies were supposed to go through the fuglies as yearlings or thereabouts, and things were supposed to look much better by the time they are 3?!? Well, apparently Amos didn't read that book...he has Big Head Disease! LOL Poor guy, his head is growing, but nothing else is! I just had to let his halter out another notch...praying the rest of him will catch up with the noggin!!
And no, I'm not showing any pictures!:lol:
Katja

[WBLover]

My 3yo was looking GORGEOUS last fall when he was 2.5, looked like a well-balanced, uphill, mature horse. Now, he's turning 3 in June, and lookly pretty goofy. Definitely got the "big head" problem goin' on, I've been calling him "doofus" lately. Also getting butt high again, and the hips are sticking out all funky. He is also completely slab sided, and for his breed I'm SURE he's not going to end up that way. Just wondering when those ribs are going to "spring" out and when he's going to get some withers!! :eek:

[tri]

I have a 3 1/2 year old that is just now starting to look put together but I know my line and it matures late, growing well until the fall of their 5 year old year.

[ThatIrishTemper]

I'm training one that I like to call "Frankencolt." The owner agreed that it fits him well.

But he happens to have a gorgeous head. :)

[LivviesMom]

My fillies but just shot up 3 inches. at 2 and a half she looked pretty good, now shes bum high and kinda icky looking.. I still love her though lol.. I'm hoping she'll even out by August in time for her first line class... fingers crossed!

[EquusMagnificus]

*sheepishly raises hand*

Oh tell me about it. My boy looked somewhat good until I had the brilliant idea to start showing him as a two year-old... Since then? He's been just a tad weird looking... Not enough to be obviously in a forgiving growth spurt... just enough to look like his dam was covered by a moose!! Ooohh man...

[vineyridge]

Me too. My TBs will turn three in a couple of weeks. My colt is small but lovely, but my filly is different almost every week, and most of them are not what I want to see when she's mature. Her body is lovely right now, but her head and neck are nightmares. At least she's not in a pig eyed stage now.

I guess I should plan on having an ugly grown up, but it was not what I had hoped for. Maybe I can just look at the body, and think, "Well, that's the most important part of all." :D

[copper bay farm]

Ugh. I have one coming three next month. She looks like a half grown puppy at times and tends to sprout one part at a time, as in all of a sudden the head is huge, then all of a sudden there are withers and the neck is gone, or the chest widens, etc., etc. This happens overnight, I swear! Not going to any inspections this year. I have no plans on breeding her in the near future so I would just as soon wait a little and let her mature for a while. She's from a slow maturing line anyway. I saw a related filly last week who was very similar in appearance as a 3yo, and she is utterly drop dead gorgeous now at 5.

[EqTrainer]

Oh yes. My three year old has Ginormous Colt Disease. Meaning, he is 16h but still looks like a giant weanling. When I got him he was quite small IMO so I called him Dinky. My breeder friends kept warning me, I'd better change his name. Turns out his bloodlines throw big tall beasts. So I am in for it, for another two years or so. Or at least that is what they tell me. It's so wierd to see him from a distance, you think he is a colt.. but he's not. He takes the same saddle size my 16.3 TB, who has legs like posts, does! Freaky.

[tbmorgan]

See, that's one thing in Amos's favor...his face is beautiful! He has an absolutely gorgeously oversized head that you can't miss! Plus, he's about 2 inches butt-high...
Whoever said you're supposed to look at them at 3 weeks, 3 months and 3 years didn't let Amos read that book. I figure (and hope!) that being a TB/Morgan, he'll mature late and look great at 5 or 6. In the meantime, I'm just trying not to cringe when I look at the poor sweet boy!

Katja

[inca]

My 3-yr-old looks like a 2-yr-old. She is 16hh or 16.1hh but is SO narrow chested and has NO back muscles. I went ahead and sent her to the trainer because she is for sale and everyone expects a 3-yr-old to be started. I just talked to him today and he said she has no idea where her feet are or what to do with someone on her back. So, I am probably going to bring her home early, keep doing ground work with her and try again in the fall. She is 3/4 warmblood and 1/4 TB so I am HOPING she fills out one day!

Her head and neck are quite beautiful but her body is way under developed. She isn't butt high or anything, just super leggy and petite looking.

[Spectrum]

The three-year-old I bred and sold to my sister still looks like a massive baby. He's almost 16.0h at this point, but looks like a giant yearling!

This guy is a Tricolore/Diamont baby. Comparing him to my trainer's Scandic/Jazz colt is laughable, although they were both born in the same month (June of 2005). Her colt looks like he will be a rideable three-year-old; nice muscling, tall, balanced in body in movement. My sister's gelding looks like he'd fall over if you tried to sit on him right now- gangly, butt-high, scrawny neck, the works! LOL.

These two are a lesson in breeding- some horses can be started at three, and some just can't! My sister's will undoubtedly need at least another 6 months to a year before she can start lightly backing him.

Spectrum.

[EqTrainer]

Well I feel better to hear so many people have a three year old that looks like a Ginormous Baby. There is hope!

[Cooper]

It is funny how the rose colored glasses come into play. When my gelding was 3, I didn't think he was so bad. Now I look back at his pics.......oh dear, he was horrendous.:winkgrin: I suppose that he didn't read the book that says they should look good at 3 days, 3 months, 3 years.

He is G line Hano, so no surprise he takes so long to grow into himself, but still.......he was really unattractive.

[Horsecrazy27]

Me too! Mine looks like a giant weanling...16.2 hands, but has that "baby look".? Still balanced though--good thing.