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Re: [RC] Temperature Variance in Working Horses - spirittxarabiansWe have had a humid summer this year. I have a horse that turned 7 this year and has done a few 50s with good vet scores, etc. Twice this year (April & July) he has had a mild colic just standing in the pasture on a day when the air temperature had a sudden increase with high humidity and a change in air pressure due to a storm rolling in. The first time, our vet arrived and his temperature was 105. Our vet said a horse can have heat stroke at 105 temp and 104 is getting dangerous. We gave him cold showers, dropped his temperature to 100 and he no longer showed signs of colic. The second time it was 100 degrees outside with humidity and his temp was 103. Our vet now says he has anhidrosis (he was not sweating in the pasture when he had a high body temperature). He says it is a very common problem in the South, but it isn't usually diagnosed unless the horse is in some type of high performance activity (endurance, racing, eventing, etc.). This horse has sweated fine on all of our endurance ride
s (which have only been in temperatures of 85 degrees or less), but can't handle the extreme heat/humidity or sudden increases in temperature (the colic in April happened when the daily temp went from 65 one day to 85 the next). Anyway, based on this information I would be interested to know if the horse that was going back out on another loop with 103 degree body temperature in the heat and humidity ever had any metabolic problems or lost interest in food or water on those rides or had low gut sounds etc. Has anyone else taken their horse's body temperature on hot humid rides in the South?
Selena Copeland
Spirit of Texas Arabians spirittxarabians@xxxxxxx www.spirittxarabians.com -----Original Message----- From: Joe Long <jlong@xxxxxxxx> To: DVeritas@xxxxxxx Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:44:27 -0600 Subject: Re: [RC] Temperature Variance in Working Horses On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 17:33:56 EDT, DVeritas@xxxxxxx wrote: ... >So, has anyone a clue as to temperature in a resting horse (around 101) and >a horse working on a hot day? When I was riding "up front" in hot and humid rides in the East, it wasn't unusual to arrive at vet checks with a temp of 104 - 105 degrees. I would not leave a vet check unless his temp was below 103 degrees. I considered an arrival temp over 105 degrees to be a "red flag" requiring immediate action to cool him down. I don't have any data for riding in low humidity. >Has anyone come up with the means to measure (such as the HRM) temperature >while working? I tried to find something like that when I was living in Alabama, and never did. -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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