#horse height

[shirecorn]

How tall is Shirecorn?

It occurs to me that I never specified how tall my fursona is. Horses are typically measured in Hands, which is about the width of an adult's hand, measured from thumb to pinky and stacked like so:

The hands reach up to the withers (shoulder) of a horse, rather than measuring up to their head.

The top of the withers is actually determined by the long bones that protrude off the back of the spine, rather than the upper edge of the horse's shoulder blade. It's a bit of a misnomer to call them bones, as they are part of the vertebra, not joints connected to it.

You have spines too, but yours are not as pronounced as those of ungulates (hoofed mammals) nor as epic as spinosaurus.

in horses, the muscle that lays on top of these bones determines the height of the withers.

A "Hand," understood as a standardized unit, is equal to 4 inches, 10.16 centimeters. Modern competitions and the professional horse world measure exact to the withers height in centimeters, but your average cowboy still talks in hands.

The first horse is 14 hands, so 56 inches/142.24 centimeters at the shoulder. That's on the smaller end of average for a horse! For those whose perception of height is compared to their own, that's 4'8, so the shoulder is below the top of most peoples' heads.

The tallest horse breed in the world is the shire horse.

These massive horses can reach 19 hands tall! To make it even, let's have both our guy and our shire be 17.5 hands tall. That's 5'10, 178 CM at the shoulder and top of withers.

Where does Shirecorn fit into this?

I represent myself as a shire unicorn with fluffy feet and a blueish coat. Until today, everyone has had to guess my height whenever drawing or picturing me. I haven't really gotten into it because I knew I needed to explains hands, withers, and average horse heights. But with all that out of the way, I have created a height chart to show Bo vs a typical shire, vs a human.

Don't get distracted by the typical shire silhouette. I just threw that in there to show how I measure up.

This is me:

That's right, I am 1 hand tall. That's 4 inches, or about 10 cm, measured at the withers! If you use the top of my horn, you'll get the wrong height.

But now that you know how to measure a horse, you can picture me in all my Shirecorn glory.

Go ahead, put in pocket. Take on adventure. Set me free. Stack shirecorns up to measure horses and humans alike. The power is in your hands.

[girlboyburger]

i heard you folks might like fluttershy? 🦋

[naturecalls111]

When Legolas takes a break

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Results from the ‘Who is the tallest MDZS Character poll! Thank you all for voting!

[citroncynique]

bad dreams in the night

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

blurry sketchy puppets in a lime. line. limelight line

[chellodello]

Is there anything more romantic than holding hands on the way to detention because you spent all day fighting?

[subzeroparade]

i am a one-trick pony and this is my trick.

[lilac-udon]

spending my new year drawing this

[grooviestguru]

we were robbed, ROBBED, of details of andrew RIDING A HORSE. like are you KIDDING ME? looking beyond the pure comedic value of such a sight, and the upperclassmen's delight, consider too this poor fellow is afraid of heights and being on a horse is HIGH

ROBBED.

[canonkiller]

ttrpg is a dress up game (uniform and dress uniform concepting)

[fantasy-pegasus-blog]

“Kill the cop in your head and don’t police other’s writing” idk how to tell you that police officers and cops who dismiss sexual assault and have encouraged the normalization of it via “it’s just a joke,” talk, lower-level assault like catcalling and dic pics, locker room talk, and romanticized/idealized writing and how it effects pop culture, would love a little random story about a “hot” rape fic. Especially fanfic that undermines the characters of colour while glorifying the white violent character. Like cops would love you guys. You are aware of that right.

“I am aware of it!”

We all need to get to a point where racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, hate crimes, and rape is viewed as simply horrendous. Disgustingly inhumane. And writing about it in a positive light will NOT help your brain get into that mindset.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Sorry I'm a bit late on this, but I just wanted to say congrats on finishing season 1 !! 🥳

LOSING MY MIND AT HOW PERFECT THIS IS!!!!!! THANK YOU PIO!!!!! B'*)

[loveryss]

rancher from the city 🐎

[pineapplesaresweet]

so that show huh

[pure-winter-cc]

MycroftJr's height slider collab result affects horses. Someone should use my 'mod patch framework' mod and create a patch for the height sliders that adds a UI and functionality for horses, please. The template is already included in the mod as it comes with a UI interaction to adjust sim's height- just not for horses. It looks like the author is also open to submissions of improvements for the mod. :)

To use the height slider as it is right now, download the mod linked above (the height sliders) and you must get the horse's sim ID in game cheat console via sims.get_sim_id_by_name First Last

If they have a last name you MUST include it. If they don't, only use the first name.

After you get the ID, you can use a value between -100 (13 hand pony) and 100 (18 hand giant.) They are both shown in the video. The command to change their height in the cheat console during gameplay unpaused is: set_height # ID

Working example, with my horse's ID inputted: set_height 100 135409245365743136