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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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A Somebody to Everybody
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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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I just read the headlines
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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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A Somebody to Everybody
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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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My Heart Be Happy
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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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