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New Member: Codemann |
Posted on Sunday, Nov 27, 2005 - 12:30 pm: I have recently adopted a 7 yr old thoroughbred gelding. He was severely emaciated with an abscessed foot. The adoption agency and then I have him up to weight and the abscess is healed but not totally grown out and he was also gelded approx. 4 months ago. I am working on accessing his soundness which I believe to be fine. (He never made it to the track but was in race training earlier in his life) The one thing that has me completely puzzled is, I have noticed him sweating just below his hip which then follows the curve of his hindquarters. I thought that he was laying a certain way that was picking up moisture from his stall. However, he had his blanket on the other night and when I pulled it off he had the same weird sweat marks on both sides. He was not sweating anywhere else (in fact he was cool to the touch) except just below his hip where the sweat was and then I did feel heat.... I have only ridden him minimally in the short time that I have had him but he has played very hard with our other horses in the field and has not come up lame or even sore. Any thoughts? It sounds similar to the flank sweats that were posted in January of 2002 but this horse came from Lexington, Ky and now reside in Cincinnati, Oh. which are far cry from the warm weather of Fl. It's also November and cool. He sweats normally when playing or being worked.... |
Member: anya |
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 - 12:25 pm: My horse (also an OTTB, 4-year old mare) also has weird sweat patterns. She will start sweating (with heat) on her croup, both sides, but oddly enough not after exercise or moving, but when she is standing in her stall or in the cross ties for 30 min or longer. During the day she is out on the pasture, in the sun, and does not sweat.When she gets exercised, she will stop sweating immediately as well. What could this be? |
Moderator: DrO |
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 - 2:50 pm: Hello Anya,Can you tell us a bit more, for instance does she get nervous in the barn or is there little air flow in the barn? DrO |
Member: anya |
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 - 3:40 pm: She is not the nervous type, a very calm horse. The sweating only starts when she is standing for a longer period of time.I noticed it first on 6/7 and called the vet the next day - I was worried about tying up - The vet did blood tests (they all came back within range) to rule out tying up. There was no lameness. As we were doing the fetlock x-rays I posted elsewhere in the forum, my horse started sweating again at the croup, only on one side, though (right side) and felt warm there. At this time, I was wearing my wintercoat, it was pretty cold at the barn. The vet thought it was a problem with nerves connecting wrongly (?) - neurotome (?) Yesterday she was sweating the most I had seen her sweat at her croup, both sides, they both felt really warm, too. It was a warm day, and her stall is at the end of the barn, with good air flow. After walking her around and exercising, she stopped sweating there, and I only noticed sweat under her surcingle. |
Moderator: DrO |
Posted on Thursday, Jun 25, 2009 - 9:03 am: Anya, it is important to note that horses almost always sweat but whether it collects on the body or not depends on the rate of formation and rate of evaporation. I wonder if these areas the horse is standing in are discouraging evaporation. Increase humidity or decrease in breeze for instance.However there are horses that sweat when placed in unusual situations and rarely you see horses that have unusual sweating patterns that are hard to understand. I cannot think of any adverse health consequence of this however. DrO |