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Studs
- Weekly and monthly weight gain or lack of weight gain
- Monitoring optimal growth curves
- Mare’s placentas at foaling
- Foal birth weights
Racing
- Weekly weighing to monitor recovery and find optimal race weight
- Weighing before and after racing to find optimal running weight
- Monitor stress from travelling
- Weighing up to 72 hours after racing to ensure horse has regained 75% of pre-racing weight. Weight will provide insight into when the horse next races
Vets
- Tier 3 veterinary hospitals must have an accurate weightbridge to retain its tier 3 status (RCVS practice standard scheme, January 2025)
- Weighing as soon as the animal arrives and when they leave so the hospital has a complete weight profile
- Anaesthetic and other medication can be accurately administered
- Scales will help educate on horse obesity
Competition horses
- Monitoring weights when coming back to fitness level
- Optimal running weight
- Weighbridge at 5* events to monitor how horse has travelled
- Regular weighing during the event, partically after cross country and before show-jumping
- Endurance horses
Charity
- World horse welfare and donkey santuary
- Equine research, rehoming, and rehabilitation
- Regular weighing to monitor weight gain and weight loss
Privately owned
- Actual weight compared to appearance can be deceiving
- Monitoring for health and performance