{"id":1317,"date":"2015-07-07T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ext100.wsu.edu\/ferry\/?page_id=1317"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:33:21","slug":"heart-girth-and-weight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/heart-girth-and-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Girth and Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Calculate Sheep or Goat Weight<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2015\/07\/sheep11.jpg\" alt=\"Simple line drawing of a sheep labeled a, b, and c, showing points for body measurements.\" class=\"wp-image-1318\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Unless you are a commercial sheep farmer, you probably do not own a livestock scale to weigh your sheep, goats, lambs or kids. Figuring out how to weigh a sheep or a goat is easy if you can measure the animal&#8217;s body length and girth. Use this guide to determine the weight of your livestock sheep or goat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Measure the circumference of the animal, as shown in distance C in the illustration. Make sure to measure girth in relation to the location of the animal&#8217;s heart. On a sheep, ensure an accurate measurement by compressing the sheep&#8217;s wool so that the circumference reflects that of the body and does not include that of the body plus the wool.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Measure the length of the animal&#8217;s body, as shown in distance A-B in the illustration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Using the measurements from steps 1 and 2, calculate body weight using the formula HEART GIRTH x HEART GIRTH x BODY LENGTH \/ 300 = ANIMAL WEIGHT IN POUNDS. For example, if a sheep has a heart girth equal to 35 inches and a body length equal to 30 inches, the calculation would be (35 x 35 x 30) \/ 300 = 122 lbs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Calculate Sheep or Goat Weight Unless you are a commercial sheep farmer, you probably do not own a livestock scale to weigh your sheep, goats, lambs or kids. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_expiration_date":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"cahnrs_clean_page_nonce":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6735,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317\/revisions\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/ferry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}