Anyone else got a very hot horse. Body not temprament

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My fully clipped 5 yo developed what we can only think is a heat rash last week. I had put him into a slightly warmer rug, then started to develop spots over his lumbar and on his flanks. He has always been a very warm horse from a foal

By friday they were huge and swollen and he was beside himself itching, he had to be bathed in ice cold water on Friday morning at 8am and you could see the relief on his face. The steam was coming off his back. Vet visited and popped him onto prednisilone which he is still on.

He is wearing a waffle cooler only at night and a rainsheet in the day.

He has always been an overly hot horse, hence why in walk he sweats in winter hence the full clip to keep him comfy.

Anyone else has a really warm blooded beastie. Any tips for keeping skin healthy in the respect of supplements? Equidermis maybe? He normally has gorgeous shiny skin but seems to go into complete meltdown if something tips the balance
 
Yep - despite being hunter clipped through last winter I couldn't put more than a medium weight on her. When it got super cold I tried to pop a fleece under and bingo, poor soul broke out in heat rash! Bizzarly she doesn't sweat up a heap when working, but she does run warm! She does tend to be an itchy soul which is made worse if she is warm, she is on linseed now which seems to have helped. I give her a nice scratchy groom with a dandy brush which she likes. I also try and avoid washing her down as much as possible as shampoos/coat gloss etc make her more sensitive. As long as I don't try and rug her like a 'normal' horse and let her run slightly cooler then she is comfy and happy.
 
I do the same, lightly rug my fully clipped hot one and add linseed to his feed. If he gets rugged too much he gets really itchy and comes out in heat lumps.
I check he's ok by monitoring his weight and observing him in the field to see if he looks tucked up, but he never does.
 
Yep i do :D

She is fully clipped all winter and never has anything more than a mw - no neck or anything - on ever! She never has a stable rug on either:o I changed her to her lw yesterday because even though it is about -6 in the wind here she was too hot! Last year when it was -7 she was sweaating under her rainsheet in the snow!:eek: her clip was starting to grow out - YO couldn't believe anything was sweating in that snow and cold but ate his words when he saw her steaming in her stable:eek::rolleyes: She spent the rest of the snow naked - and loved it!:D I clipped her almost as soon as it melted as she started itching overnight:o once clipped and rugged lightly she was until she could go naked:D

She has no specific supplements but I do hot wash her in slosh wash when sweating after excercise etc they are brilliant as they are no rinse and you can also hot cloth with them so great even in the middle of winter. She gets 'washed' off and then has her cooler on to dry:) Seems to help keep any itchy bits under control. If she has scratched herself raw I just put Wonder gel on the affected area - seems to do the job:)
 
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I have an incredibly warm cob that is currently fully clipped and out 24/7 in a 40g lightweight rug. Earlier in the month he had just been clipped and worked up an incredible sweat in a lesson in our school (outdoor) in minus temperatures!
He gets washed off with sloshwash in the winter and cooling lavender wash in the summer, and goes naked (and fully clipped) from about April to mid October. I've not yet noticed an reaction to getting too hot, but I do try to keep him as cool as possible
 
Glad I'm not the only one with a hot rod! Tried to put my two year old in a MW last winter (in the worst of the worst) and we had heat rash in two days. He's not been in anything more than a LW since- no fill. He's currently got a low trace/high gut and gullet for weight loss reasons and has had his LW on maybe four times this winter- when it's lashing down. Was starting to think he was a bit odd...! Looking forward to getting him into work and clipping him out- he has a lovely coat now. He's fed on hifi lite, hi fibre cubes and a bit and min supplement with biotin (for feet but makes him shiny too!)
 
Glad I'm not the only one with a hot rod! Tried to put my two year old in a MW last winter (in the worst of the worst) and we had heat rash in two days. He's not been in anything more than a LW since- no fill. He's currently got a low trace/high gut and gullet for weight loss reasons and has had his LW on maybe four times this winter- when it's lashing down. Was starting to think he was a bit odd...! Looking forward to getting him into work and clipping him out- he has a lovely coat now. He's fed on hifi lite, hi fibre cubes and a vit and min supplement with biotin (for feet but makes him shiny too!)
 
Right no jokes ok?

Yes Fany is a hot horse, it is why she is clipped out and rugged she got so hot last year that she was scratching herself raw. She grows a hugely thick coat, but is still a warm horse with it clipped off. She is going to need clipping again soon.
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I've got a mare like that too. I've never had to put a heavyweight rug on her ever - despite living in the cold and windy Pennines! I pay for it in summer, when she has to be washed off after every single ride.

I found that heating foods had to be eliminated from her diet - all sugarbeets - whatever form, and even rich haylage - they all brought her out in heatbumps. Other than that she gleams with health all year round. She is a total good doer though - so doesn't need much food and does really well on our poor grass haylage!
 
Yes my cob is fully clipped and in a under rug and LWturn out (rain sheet) on the top over night and is toasty warm. I put the LW stable rug on the top and found him sweating in the morning. He is in a quite a light MW during the day and plenty warm enough. Most other horses on out yard are in HW rugs now.
 
My 20 y old shire Tb x is a hot girl. I can't put a rug on her unless she's clipped. She lives out 24/7 fully clipped.

Incidentally had you recently clipped - I have found she gets lumps like heat rash/ allergy lumps after clipping especially if she gets warm. - Last time I clipped she got them under the saddle area where she had sweated.
 
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Yep - despite being hunter clipped through last winter I couldn't put more than a medium weight on her. When it got super cold I tried to pop a fleece under and bingo, poor soul broke out in heat rash! Bizzarly she doesn't sweat up a heap when working, but she does run warm! She does tend to be an itchy soul which is made worse if she is warm, she is on linseed now which seems to have helped. I give her a nice scratchy groom with a dandy brush which she likes. I also try and avoid washing her down as much as possible as shampoos/coat gloss etc make her more sensitive. As long as I don't try and rug her like a 'normal' horse and let her run slightly cooler then she is comfy and happy.
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She is a normal horse - I remember in mid winter the clipped horses wore a witney blanket and a jute rug - top doors open and were toasty warm and healthy. Horses living out rarely had a rug on. People desperately over rug these days.
 
I have a TB who is a hot boy! He is currently traceclipped so that he doesn't get too hot when ridden and is fine in a medium weight turnout with no neck - anymore than that and he gets sweaty. He's my first TB and I thought he'd need to be wrapped in cotton wool - I sometimes think he is just an overgrown New Forest pony :D
 
well it hasnt got to winter temps in the midlands.. oh sorry 2 frosts which have been gone by 8 am. mine are in either lw s or rain sheets! may change a couple to mw when reclipped.

you have to rug according to your own horse and the weather in your area. bucket food can alter the horses temp, and can bring feed bumps as well. long stem fibre (good hay or haylage) keeps the internal furnace going! some horses run hotter than others so individual rugging requirements are nec .. not a blanket well its dec so big rugs on!!
 
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