[Thomp]

looking for a quick way to compair heigth of animal to human, my wife is no help, and i guess my memory is failing..

im carving a series of farm - old west items, and was carving a long eared jackass, as i remember my grandfathers jackass it was a very tall animal, but the memory comes from when i was less than 5 years old.. setting on its back i could see the bald spot on top of grandpaws head and he was 5-9 to 6 feet.

is it a childhood memory that makes me think the jackass should be as tall as a man and its back at mans sholder heigth.

i guessed at the hound being mid thigh in heigth but that could go with mixed species...

is there any better way to get it closer than a guess?

[AlArchie]

Thomp.....I assume your "jackass" is a mule....so he is a description of the rough size of the critters from a "Mule site". sounds like they can be near as large as a draft horse and as small as a Shetland pony. Seems you'd be safe making him/her just about any size you want!

Oh, a "hand" is 4 inches. So a 17 hand mule would be 68" tall at the shoulders. That's shoulder height to a 6' 4" man.......pretty good sized beast of burden!

Al


Mules come in every size and shape imaginable. Miniature mules (even to under 36") can be seen all the way up to 17 hand Percheron draft (by Mammoth Jacks) Mules. The Poitou donkey was used exclusively for breeding huge draft mules from a breed of draft horse called the Mullasier - the Mule producer. The build of the mule is a combination of both parents. The head resembles both, the eyes being more almond-shaped (inherited from the D-shaped eye socket of the donkey). Male mules may have more prominent brow ridges like those of most donkey jacks. The neck is straight and has little arch, even in mules from Arab or Warmblood mares. The overall body shape will be dependent on the conformation of both parents. Due to hybrid vigor, the mule has the possibility of growing taller than either parent.
The rarer Hinnies are often said to be more horselike than the mule, but more often it is impossible to tell them apart. Hinnies may tend to be slightly smaller, simply because of the fact that most donkeys are smaller than horses.
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[Thomp]

haha i win the cookie... i told the wife he could be that tall, before i cut off its leggs,

thanks for the help....ala

we got another one going now...

i got some small animals minatures from my sister yesterday in the mail. they are Schleich branb, apperently a world known manufacture of minatures, although they have no scale marked on them i suspect them not to be 1:12" or one to twelve inches as i have tried to carve the rest of the items,
in the picture the man in baby blue overalls is 6 inches tall the rest of the critters are plastic and i dont intend to use them for my set. but is the size relation look right to you..

[AlArchie]

Looks like a mish-mash of scales there, Thomp! Compared to the human figure, the cow is small, the sheep and rooster quite large, the goat about right, and the pigs/piglets?????????? hard to say.

A 6 ft man should be able to put an outstretched arm on the back of a full grown dairy cow, and a standard 10 qt, milking bucket (do they make them anymore?) will just clear the udder teats. A sheep will be between hip and waist height, goat a mite shorter (all at the shoulder). A BIG rooster will get to around 20" tall, head and neck included, a laying hen 10" to 14", and a large gray goose's bill will come just about to your "plumber's crack"......Where do you suppose the term "goosed" came from?

It's been quite some time since I was chased around Grandpa's barnyard by the geese, roosters and goats, and they looked one heck of a lot larger then, and the milk cows looked more like rhino's, but they really weren't all THAT big!

Al

[Thomp]

im thinking there is no actual scale on these animals , but my sister said last night, they are babies and such...

oh well my grandson loves them and he will be the reciepiant of them to go with his elmo barney and forcefully possesed hound dog, hes nearly 2 yrs old and found out chicken babys go cheep cheep, so now even bares, cat, birds all go cheep cheep...

the pigs had to be a joke, there about the size of a kiddney bean but 5 for a dollar, sis said she couldnt pass them up....

thanks for the help its 11:00 and i dont have one single chip on the floor yet.
thanks again
thomas