BODY SCORING A HORSE






The Bucket Fund often supports starved horses.  Within those Bucket Fund stories, you’ll often read the phrase, “With a Henneke score of 1…” or “a body score of 1+”…

What does that mean?

You all know that the above phrases are ‘bad’, but I think it would be good to know exactly how the scoring system works.

Well…  I was sent this article from EquiMed and thought it was perfect!

So, here you go:

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Body Scoring chart.

ARTICLE IN EQUIMED by Flossie Sellers

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