The bug
When the horse model was changed to be more in line with the designs of other animals, baby horses were also no longer supposed to grow gradually with age for the same reason. However, this was missed, and it still happens.
[media]How to reproduce
Spawn a baby horse
Feed it wheat
→ ❌ It gets slightly larger
Cause
Since this behavior is data-driven, it's a really simple fix: replace the scale_by_age
component in the baby horse component group with a normal scale
component.
Can confirm. On java they used to do that in 1.6.4, but for some reason this was removed, but it hasn’t been removed from bedrock.