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| After you hose off your horse, do you scrap the water off, or let it evaporate naturally? |
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | I’ve read that it’s better to scrape the excess off, but personally, I prefer to just turn mine out and let her roll. I think rolling helps keep them chiropractically in balance.
Edited to add that my girl lives outside-
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | chicks2 - 2018-05-29 10:10 AM After you hose off your horse, do you scrap the water off, or let it evaporate naturally?
Always scrap the water off for faster drying. And stand them in a shady area.. What do you do OP? |
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Location: Louisiana | If I hose them in the heat of the day, they get scraped off and put in the shade.
Last night I hosed mine when I got home from practicing at a friend's house...it was dark and cool, and he was already cooled down, so I just turned him out.
I like to hose the sweat off, but if it's really hot and I don't have shade (at a show for example) I just let them cool off and dry before loading up, then I'll wash the dried sweat off when I get home - my trailer is black and can get hot. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | cloverleaf - 2018-05-29 10:24 AM I’ve read that it’s better to scrape the excess off, but personally, I prefer to just turn mine out and let her roll. I think rolling helps keep them chiropractically in balance. Edited to add that my girl lives outside-
Mine roll alot anyways after I do turn them back out after they dry just to show me they can still get dirty, lol.. But rolling is a good thing to help keep things in place I think, so I dont mine the rolling.  |
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| If I’m going to tie them up to dry, I scrape it off with my hand, less dripping to irritate them and I’ve read the water on top can create an insulated layer of heat.
If I’m going to turn them back out I just let them roll. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I dont like turning mine back out untill they dry off, I want them to dry off under a shade tree so they wont get in the sun and fade out their coat while wet.  |
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| I ALWAYS scrape off the water because I live in a high heat/high humidity land. If I didn't scrape the excess water, the water will act as a sheet/blanket and actually hold in his body heat instead of letting it disapate(?). At least that is what my vet told me many years ago. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I ALWAYS scrape it off!
Imagine it is very hot and your put on a soaking wet T-shirt. You will get hot quickly again, but if you wring it out first you will stay cooler longer. |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | Hose and scrape the access off. I read an article that researched scraping vs leaving access water on the coat and it shows that it cools the horse down slower,not faster because it blocks The heat from escaping the coat. Learn something new everyday!
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | GLP - 2018-05-29 11:55 AM I ALWAYS scrape off the water because I live in a high heat/high humidity land. If I didn't scrape the excess water, the water will act as a sheet/blanket and actually hold in his body heat instead of letting it disapate(?). At least that is what my vet told me many years ago.
how is water different than sweat?
Evaprotative cooling should be working in both cases. |
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| Always get the excess water off. I came close to losing my gelding last year. He was at the trainers, I stopped by to check on them and drop off feed. He was in his stall, respiration was over 100 had him to the vets within an hour. The trainer had worked him that morning, her help is suppose to cool them down and hose them off, she left to go to a rodeo so instead of the normal routine of cooling them down good and tying under a tree where this is always a breeze, he put him in his stall soaking wet which was the same as putting a hot blanket on him and he was just cooking and on his way to having a heat stroke.
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Location: Hiding from Reality | Big flies are terrible at my house in the evenings so I just rinse them off and let them roll so they can get some protection from flies. Leave them rather wet so the dirt can get caked on. Usually by the next day its pretty much warn off. The flies at my house bite through fly sheets. They are ruthless. |
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| 1DSoon - 2018-05-29 11:03 AM GLP - 2018-05-29 11:55 AM I ALWAYS scrape off the water because I live in a high heat/high humidity land. If I didn't scrape the excess water, the water will act as a sheet/blanket and actually hold in his body heat instead of letting it disapate(?). At least that is what my vet told me many years ago. how is water different than sweat?
Evaprotative cooling should be working in both cases.
Another important part of cooling out horses is evaporation. After the horse has been sprayed off, it is very important to scrape the water off. This is because once the horse is sprayed, the water absorbs the horse's heat and becomes warm. In order for evaporation to occur effectively, this warm water must be removed. This process can be repeated until the horse's temperature comes down (i.e. spray then scrape, spray again then scrape again, etc.). If the water is not scraped off, it could act as an insulating layer and actually make the horse hotter than when you started. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | rodeomom3 - 2018-05-29 11:06 AM Always get the excess water off. I came close to losing my gelding last year. He was at the trainers, I stopped by to check on them and drop off feed. He was in his stall, respiration was over 100 had him to the vets within an hour. The trainer had worked him that morning, her help is suppose to cool them down and hose them off, she left to go to a rodeo so instead of the normal routine of cooling them down good and tying under a tree where this is always a breeze, he put him in his stall soaking wet which was the same as putting a hot blanket on him and he was just cooking and on his way to having a heat stroke.
Lucky for your gelding that you stoped by at the right time. |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2018-05-29 11:23 AM rodeomom3 - 2018-05-29 11:06 AM Always get the excess water off. I came close to losing my gelding last year. He was at the trainers, I stopped by to check on them and drop off feed. He was in his stall, respiration was over 100 had him to the vets within an hour. The trainer had worked him that morning, her help is suppose to cool them down and hose them off, she left to go to a rodeo so instead of the normal routine of cooling them down good and tying under a tree where this is always a breeze, he put him in his stall soaking wet which was the same as putting a hot blanket on him and he was just cooking and on his way to having a heat stroke. Lucky for your gelding that you stoped by at the right time.
Very lucky. The rest of the summer he was very sensitive to the heat. If I did not get him up out of the heat of the day early enough, his respiration would sky rocket, hosing and fans would bring it immediately down to normal- he still sweats normally though. |
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| rodeomom3 - 2018-05-29 11:23 AM
1DSoon - 2018-05-29 11:03 AM GLP - 2018-05-29 11:55 AM I ALWAYS scrape off the water because I live in a high heat/high humidity land. If I didn't scrape the excess water, the water will act as a sheet/blanket and actually hold in his body heat instead of letting it disapate(?). At least that is what my vet told me many years ago. how is water different than sweat?
Evaprotative cooling should be working in both cases.
Also, when they had the Olympics in Atlanta, studies were done to find out the best/safest ways to cool down the athletes because the heat and humidity were going to be so high. They found that hosing the horses off and scraping the water off repeatedly was the fastest and safest way to cool them down.
This and the high humidity slows down the evaporation rate. That is why in humid places you seem to sweat more than a dry climate where your sweat evaporates much more quickly making you think you are not sweating as much. I have found when we visited relatives in the Panhandle where it is much drier than here on the coast, we thought we weren't sweating that much and had to be more aware of how much we drank in order to not dehydrate. The temperature was as high or higher at home, but it felt cooler due to our sweat evaporating so much faster.
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | I leave them wet. I'm calling BS on the water causing them to be hotter. If I have to work on a hot day, I wet my T shirt in the sink and put it on. It keeps me cooler with any breeze that might be present. Sweat works the same way. Wet washcloth on a person with a fever. ETC... It cools. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | OregonBR - 2018-05-29 12:50 PM I leave them wet. I'm calling BS on the water causing them to be hotter. If I have to work on a hot day, I wet my T shirt in the sink and put it on. It keeps me cooler with any breeze that might be present. Sweat works the same way. Wet washcloth on a person with a fever. ETC... It cools.
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| OregonBR - 2018-05-29 11:50 AM
I leave them wet. I'm calling BS on the water causing them to be hotter. If I have to work on a hot day, I wet my T shirt in the sink and put it on. It keeps me cooler with any breeze that might be present. Sweat works the same way. Wet washcloth on a person with a fever. ETC... It cools.
That sure doesn't work down here. When we soak through our clothes, we put nice dry ones on and start all over again. What does seem to help is a wide brim hat and a wet cloth around your neck, changed frequently.
Also, air flows between skin and shirt, that is why you are cool. Air can't flow like that between water and hide.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | GLP - 2018-05-29 12:04 PM OregonBR - 2018-05-29 11:50 AM I leave them wet. I'm calling BS on the water causing them to be hotter. If I have to work on a hot day, I wet my T shirt in the sink and put it on. It keeps me cooler with any breeze that might be present. Sweat works the same way. Wet washcloth on a person with a fever. ETC... It cools. That sure doesn't work down here. When we soak through our clothes, we put nice dry ones on and start all over again. What does seem to help is a wide brim hat and a wet cloth around your neck, changed frequently. Also, air flows between skin and shirt, that is why you are cool. Air can't flow like that between water and hide.
Yep alwalys having to change out 2 or more shirts a day if your a out door person during the summer months, we sweat so darn much here in our part of the world, living in South texas is hard during the summer months the best word for it is that the heat is BRUTAL and horses are sweating just standing in the shade and the closer you are to the coast the worst it gets.. I would never hose and not scrape off the water unless its a cooler afternoon and I was feeling on the lazy side, but then I would still scrape the water off but thats just me I was taught at a early age that this was the right way. |
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | I was just having an informative conversation about “dewpoint” yesterday. If the dew point is high, sweat or water doesn’t evaporate. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | It must be the difference between being really humid or not. Cause it doesn't take long for a wet horse to dry here and with them being wet, they are cooler. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | OregonBR - 2018-05-29 4:34 PM It must be the difference between being really humid or not. Cause it doesn't take long for a wet horse to dry here and with them being wet, they are cooler. The humidity here is aweful but the closer you are to the coast its horrible.. The humidty right now is not to bad its do able, but when rain starts to build up the humidy can get to you real fast. Right now we're at 97 earlier it was 99, tomorrow we may be in the triple digits. And Houston Texas is brutal when the humidy gets high... Sometimes it can take my horses over an hour to dry off and sometimes they dont dry at all.
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Location: Texas | When you hose a horse off, you are applying a lot of water at one time to the entire body, which does make a warm film. When a horse sweats under normal conditions, you usually aren't working the horse into a full body drenched sweat, so its easier for the thinner layer of fluid to evaporate faster. If a horse is in a full body sweat, that sucker is VERY hot and I wouldn't think that allowing the sweat to evaporate was sufficient to cool it down and let evaporation do its thing.
In humid areas, even if you are sweating fine, you're still miserable because it takes longer for moisture to evaporate. If I am rinsing a horse off more for cleaning, I won't scrape them off if there is a good breeze and shade. If I am trying to actively cool a hot horse down, I definitely rinse off, scrape off, and repeat until the horse is cooled down. |
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Location: Arkansas | Southtxponygirl - 2018-05-29 1:43 PM
GLP - 2018-05-29 12:04 PM OregonBR - 2018-05-29 11:50 AM I leave them wet. I'm calling BS on the water causing them to be hotter. If I have to work on a hot day, I wet my T shirt in the sink and put it on. It keeps me cooler with any breeze that might be present. Sweat works the same way. Wet washcloth on a person with a fever. ETC... It cools. That sure doesn't work down here. When we soak through our clothes, we put nice dry ones on and start all over again. What does seem to help is a wide brim hat and a wet cloth around your neck, changed frequently. Also, air flows between skin and shirt, that is why you are cool. Air can't flow like that between water and hide.
Our humidity feels like you're walking into a warm, wet sweater the second you step out of the house. It just clings to you like something alive. |
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Location: Missouri | I always scrape mine off. I was told that bc it's so danged humid here, I needed to. If that's true or not I don't know. So I take 2 minutes to do it and stick them in the shade to finish drying. |
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| Chandler's Mom - 2018-05-29 9:25 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2018-05-29 1:43 PM
GLP - 2018-05-29 12:04 PM OregonBR - 2018-05-29 11:50 AM I leave them wet. I'm calling BS on the water causing them to be hotter. If I have to work on a hot day, I wet my T shirt in the sink and put it on. It keeps me cooler with any breeze that might be present. Sweat works the same way. Wet washcloth on a person with a fever. ETC... It cools. That sure doesn't work down here. When we soak through our clothes, we put nice dry ones on and start all over again. What does seem to help is a wide brim hat and a wet cloth around your neck, changed frequently. Also, air flows between skin and shirt, that is why you are cool. Air can't flow like that between water and hide.
Our humidity feels like you're walking into a warm, wet sweater the second you step out of the house. It just clings to you like something alive.
Oh, you described it perfectly! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | GLP - 2018-05-29 9:52 PM Chandler's Mom - 2018-05-29 9:25 PM Southtxponygirl - 2018-05-29 1:43 PM GLP - 2018-05-29 12:04 PM OregonBR - 2018-05-29 11:50 AM I leave them wet. I'm calling BS on the water causing them to be hotter. If I have to work on a hot day, I wet my T shirt in the sink and put it on. It keeps me cooler with any breeze that might be present. Sweat works the same way. Wet washcloth on a person with a fever. ETC... It cools. That sure doesn't work down here. When we soak through our clothes, we put nice dry ones on and start all over again. What does seem to help is a wide brim hat and a wet cloth around your neck, changed frequently. Also, air flows between skin and shirt, that is why you are cool. Air can't flow like that between water and hide. Our humidity feels like you're walking into a warm, wet sweater the second you step out of the house. It just clings to you like something alive. Oh, you described it perfectly!
My hands and body gets all sticky/icky feeling when the humity is high..  |
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Location: Arkansas | Southtxponygirl - 2018-05-29 10:33 PM
GLP - 2018-05-29 9:52 PM Chandler's Mom - 2018-05-29 9:25 PM Southtxponygirl - 2018-05-29 1:43 PM GLP - 2018-05-29 12:04 PM OregonBR - 2018-05-29 11:50 AM I leave them wet. I'm calling BS on the water causing them to be hotter. If I have to work on a hot day, I wet my T shirt in the sink and put it on. It keeps me cooler with any breeze that might be present. Sweat works the same way. Wet washcloth on a person with a fever. ETC... It cools. That sure doesn't work down here. When we soak through our clothes, we put nice dry ones on and start all over again. What does seem to help is a wide brim hat and a wet cloth around your neck, changed frequently. Also, air flows between skin and shirt, that is why you are cool. Air can't flow like that between water and hide. Our humidity feels like you're walking into a warm, wet sweater the second you step out of the house. It just clings to you like something alive. Oh, you described it perfectly!
And I don't get a becoming "sheen" or "glow"---I sweat like a pig!!!! |
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Location: Kansas | With this heat, I'm not riding as much because obviously I have no time to haul to barrel races....but my girls will gladly stand in the pasture while I hose them off. I don't scrape them off, they go roll, and go on with their business. |
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