hi! Anyone have any good homemade cooling/lineament type recipes?! I’ve got a horse that is trying to stop sweating- and I’ve been giving him alcohol baths, but wondered if Anthony has other ideas. I know there are lots of linamints available- and absorbing has a product, i do use for when he’s super hot, but using it 2 or 3 times a day- I will go thru a lot- so thinking there must be a mix I could make that was more cost effective? Thank you in advance!!
wintergreen alcohol is nice. But all of those alcohol-based rinses will strip oils from his coat over time. what about setting up a mister like this, attached to the fence? My old gal loved hers. I bought one at Rural King last week for under $6 https://www.homedepot.com/p/Cobra-Mi…E&gclsrc=aw.ds
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And when my horse decided not to sweat last summer, Guinness Stout (taken internally in the form of soaking some grain in the beer) helped the most. So far this summer he is sweating but he still gets One AC and some Guinness. He really loves his beer!
When he wasnt sweating I did spritz him with a mixture of water, rubbing alcohol, and wintergreen.
Equal parts (generic) Listerine, witch hazel & Wintergreen alcohol mixed into a bucket of cool water. Ratio around 5 to 1, water to other stuff.
I don’t really measure, just a good “glug” of each in the bucket of water.
Sponge on liberally, scrape off.
Evaporation cools, but a really hot horse will heat up the brace left on & slow the process.
IRT Guiness and One AC, I knw a friend who swears by watermellon - it makes her horse sweat. She keeps pre-cut portions in the freezer.
Interesting about watermelon. It is one of the few things m piggy horse won’t eat!
More effective than an alcohol bath: hose with cold water, scrape immediately. Hose, scrape, hose, scrape, hose, scrape, until the water coming off the horse is the same temperature as the water going on the horse.
Don’t get me wrong, an alcohol bath feels nice when it evaporates, but I don’t know about you, I can’t find alcohol anywhere around here because people are buying it up to make hand sanitizer, and besides which, if he really isn’t sweating you need to bring his body temperature down first before you give him a nice evaporative rinse or what’s on his body will just get hot and insulate.
What works for me with a confirmed non-sweater in the mid-Atlantic: Platinum Refresh (worked better than One AC, your mileage may vary,) keeping an eye on his respiration and medicating proactively, fans, and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of cold water.
Thank you! I’ve tried the one AC, beer, true sweat- at the moment he’s on kombat kool/platinum refresh/and just started the metasweat.
What medications do you give him for the breathing!?
After work he gets hosed 10-15 mins- but even still he’s often breathing harder then he should. I are in south Florida thinking to try the patches next. Thanks for the recipes!!
I use Guinness extra stout and True Sweat
My guy is 25 and has seasonal allergies and COPD aggravated by humidity so he lives through summer on clenbuterol and I have an inhaler in my tack trunk for emergencies.
For common or garden variety allergic type sneezy throat clearing here are some of the things I’ve used: MSM, Yoder’s Heave Powder (an Amish recipe- does seem to help,) Omega-Alpha Respi-Free before exercise and turnout (lots of eucalyptus, definitely opens the tubes.) He also lives on Zyrtec. I recently started using Ramard Total Respiratory which is worth every cent of the $13 daily cost :eek: - results like clenbuterol but it’s show legal.
AniMed used to make a product called Anihist that worked almost as well as ventipulmin for my old COPD gelding and was far less expensive. I do not know if it is still available or not. As far as cooling down, I hose with cool water until the chest muscles (between the front legs) are basically air temperature, then use either dilute Vetrolin or alcohol to help the final cool down.
Just an FYI for some of the posts- there have been some good studies done lately that show that scraping does not speed up cool down nor is it necessary. And leaving water on them definitely does not cause them to heat up.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc…4BnwOMV9v9V5xY
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This never made sense to me, so glad they finally did a study! I always figured keeping the hose on them would cool them the quickest! Thanks for sharing 
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Thank you! The water on them is not warming them up. The warmth is indicative of heat leaving the horse. A cool scrapped coat on a hot horse means the coat has cooled but the body is hot under the insulating layer of air between skin and hair. Keep them wet! AIR is an insulator NOT water.
