A competition for us. Go on guess. How much do you think Sheila weighs?
I finally took my dressmakers tape out to the barn to measure her and then applied the equation and the result is pretty close to her actual weight they say. So I have the answer in my mind.
What you do is measure your pigs length from the her tail to between her ears, then her girth (round her tummy).
The equation goes like this: multiply Length by Girth and Girth again then divide by 400.
Here is an example: Tahiti is 44 inches long and 42 inches around – Using this formula she is 194 pounds (or 87kg). The hardest part was to persuade Tahiti to remain standing – just the hint of a scratch and she throws herself on the ground. 
Here they are together. This gives you a point of reference for your estimate. (It was hard to get these shots as Molly spent the whole time following me about chewing on my clown suit, bumping into me and squealing gently. She is a delightful menace!) I think Sheila must be four now. But I need to look that up.
Walter will explain the formula further. (He can find the divide key on HIS keyboard).
So now: Guess. You can give your answer in pounds or kgs. It will be hard for you not to be influenced by other readers guesses so have YOUR guess worked out before you scroll down reading everyone elses. Yes! I know what you are like. I trust you to stick to your guns. Because her weight was a surprise to me, so you might be right. Though it would be a good idea if we do not have two the same. There are flaws but we will see what happens.
I will tell you Sheila’s weight tomorrow and we will see who wins.
I tried hard to think of a prize – things being quite busy at the moment. How about this -the person who guesses the closest weight wins the chance to be the guest writer for the blog while I am on the plane. We will all come to your blog on that day.
I am looking forward to this!
Have a lovely day.
Love celi
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90 responses to “Guess how much Sheila weighs!”
I’m thinking 720 pounds. That should make us all feel better about our own weight!
I agree!
I guess 262 lbs.
638 pounds 🙂
700 pounds -ish. 🙂
My blind guess was 658 lbs. Then basing the length as your height (I think you are as tall as I am) and a waist band of a fat man… I come up with 446.16 lbs! Go on, laugh at your grannymar, it is way to cold for me to remove my socks to aid with the counting, the ten fingers will have to do for today!
432lbs is my guess. I should think in kg, but I haven’t worked with metric long enough yet.
513! Because 13 is my lucky number. 😀
Let’s say that Sheila is 740 lbs. If I am way too high, please don’t tell her. I would hate to offend her, and she is lovely no matter her weight 😉
I guess about 420 kg
Okay, no blog here, but I guess 900 lbs.
If the winner does not have a blog she or he can write on mine!
Well, I am thinking that Sheila is a little more than twice the size of Tahiti, so if I calculated this right (which is highly doubtful), I come up with 1552 pounds! If I am wrong, please ask Sheila to forgive me! I didn’t mean to insult her. I’m horrible at math! 😉
Comparing her to Tahiti, I came up with way over 1,000 pounds, which seemed crazy, given what a horse weighs. She is one big pig, though and I remember you saying she was up past your hip. I redid the calculation making her slightly smaller and came up with 1,023 pounds. Just from a picture, I’d have said 600, but this calculation makes her weight alarmingly larger. She would throw off a lot of heat for the little pigs!
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I think 261 kilos as she looks about three times bigger than Tahiti.
880 lbs. I’m sure that sounds too much but that’s my first answer. Did it again, reducing my girth estimate a little and it came down drastically.