Tell me about it. My guy lives with an OTTB mare, they have a next-door neighbor who is an OTTB, and there is another OTTB three pastures over. All of them sweat like crazy.
Meanwhile I’m celebrating any degree of dampness I think I might feel in the deepest crevices of his anatomy, LOL!
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Mine weren’t OTT but they sweated well and loved the hose.
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Last summer was our first summer with allergies, first summer with hydroxyzine, and first summer not sweating. Total mess.
I swapped this summer to generic Reactine and wow! Huge difference. The horse has never been a big sweater, but making the change gets us to Somewhat Appropriate Sweating. And, thanks to Costco, it’s a cheaper option too.
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We have healthy sweat today-
Only change is after 7 days on
Platinum Refresh.
Srill adding salt, one a/c, mad barn electrolytes and BOSS.
And magnesium and Nano E.
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Hooray for healthy sweat!
Mine is on Platinum Refresh now. I can’t remember what day this is. I stopped One AC though when I started the PR. Still gets salt and he just finished a second round of EquiWinner patches yesterday.
He’s been stalled from breakfast through dinner (roughly 8:00 AM until 6:00 PM give or take) all week and most of last week due to the unbearable heat/humidity. It’s finally supposed to break tomorrow night, I believe. Highs in the 80’s and lows in the upper 60’s overnight! Whoopee!
I’m so over summer.
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Gosh, I’m still hoping, dreaming, praying for even the slightest dampness. We have TOTAL dryness still.
Currently getting: Platinum refresh (double dose), guiness, chinese herbs, and omegas + vit E that equal megasweat amounts
Not sure what else to try/add next. The patches? She’s been on all of the above for at least 3 weeks, except the DIY megasweat which is only 4 days.
We have a much cooler weekend ahead but then back into terrible temps. I’m desperate for something to give and to get at least some dampness. It’s wild to me that she went from a heavy sweater all her life to 0 sweat so fast. But here we are.
I’m also giving a 3 gallon bucket
Of soaked, mushy hay cubes
With lots of added water.
I know my horse got dehydrated when she also quit sweating, so I figured it wouldn’t hurt.
Maybe try that?
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I keep telling my horse he just needs to live until tomorrow night and then it’s going to break for a few days. At this point he’s looking back at me and saying “you said that last time, and the time before that, and the time before that…”
Mine also has some reactive airway stuff so he’s also living on clenbuterol. Regretfully, this has not encouraged him to sweat. (And if I could get anything else to work as well for his lungs, I’d take him off of it.)
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I’ve read (but don’t have direct experience) that acupuncture can help get them sweating again. Maybe worth a try?
Poor guy, it’s such a tough year 
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Mine had acupuncture about a month ago. It didn’t help at all, though he enjoyed it.
Tonight I let him and his girlfriend out and all seemed well. I was surprised that he went out into the sunny part of the pasture and started grazing. He often stays closer to the barn in the shade or even just wanders from stall to stall (stalls open onto pasture).
When I’d finished my chores and went to give him his “good night” cookies, he was huffing and puffing pretty significantly. sigh So I dragged the hose back out and dragged him over to it and hosed him until his breathing finally returned to normal. Then I stood him in front of a fan for a few minutes before I left.
I’m so TIRED of it. It has literally been all summer. He stopped sweating maybe the second week in June and has struggled with only slight improvements every now and then since.
Tomorrow night the rain comes and is supposed to be bringing a significant drop in temps. But as @Renn_aissance said, it seems like it’s never ending. A six or seven day stretch of it feeling like 105-115 with 70+% humidity, then like…one day where we aren’t under a heat advisory, then three more days of being in the oven, then maybe two days of tolerable (but still hot) weather, then another week of heat warnings every day. It’s been terrible.
I’ve seriously, seriously thought about finding a way for he and I to spend our summers in the mountains (I’m in eastern NC), where it at least cools off overnight and isn’t quite so horrendously hot during the day. Hot? Sure. But not the kind of hot we’ve been dealing with here.
The mash is a good idea, but I have a chunky monkey, so fine balance, lol.
I’d love to try acupuncture and my vet does it, but she doesn’t think Missy mare is a good candidate because of her hate for needles. But I’m getting desperate and might ask if we can just TRY
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My guy is getting his fourth acupuncture treatment tomorrow. When he gets it he gets a little damp at the roots of his mane, between his butt cheeks and around his sheath. Then that’s pretty much it, and nothing after that.
I bought a Kobalt bucket top misting fan for him today and it will enter service tomorrow.
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Interesting thing here-
When we got good neck sweating and a happy, perky expression, it was the morning AFTER my mare spent the night in front of her new powerful fan, voluntarily Daytime temps have been 99-100 actual temps. High, high humidity.
So your idea of time in the cooler mountains may help
Even cool hosing in AM seems
To help.
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My horse had been doing well with Guinness. I dont know how much it was helping this year since I started him on early as prevention.
But now he tested positive for IR and vet thinks a carb-laden beer is not a good idea. We will just have to see how he does. Accupucture and Oe AC didnt work. Horsetech product didnt work either, though it was hard to tell because it was difficult to get him to eat it. (even tho they provided flavorings)
i’ve heard (via the very reliable source of frantic googling all through the night 
) that chasteberry can help some non-sweaters particularly those with IR and other metabolic/hormone related things. Maybe worth trying?
Madbarn sells it and even though my horse is not IR I ordered some to try. She won’t eat it because it’s a strong smelling herby powder that coats everything and she can be picky. But smartpak also sells a pelleted formula that I bet is more palatable for picky eaters. they also sell capsules for humans, and so depending on how much they recommend horses get, you could probably also just feed those
For chaste tree berry, I like this one. It smells like cherry snow cone syrup!
I want to shout out Horsetech. I’ve been speaking to the company for the last couple of weeks to try to get my horse sweating on their SweatWerks product, and they’ve been super responsive about dose changes and recommendations. I’ve never purchased from this company before this, but I appreciate their customer service.
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I used a product from Smartpak
Called SmartPituitary and it was Chasteberry in pellet form, my
Horse ate it up
He was Ppid but unable to tolerate the drug, and this SP supplement helped his symptoms.
Sweatwerks is the only thing that’s helped my poor sweater (and 3 tablespoons of salt). I hope it helps yours too.
This is timely. I just moved from Wyoming to Alabama for a couple years on military assignment. My former swamp creature decided to stop sweating a few days ago. I just ordered Sweatwerks for him and I’m trying to get an acupuncturist as that’s the most effective thing I’ve seen in my limited experience. This is the first one I’ve owned. Has anyone had luck with their horse going back to sweating when returning home to a dry climate? Even in the arid environment that we came from, he’s still a sweaty beast to ride (even in the winter) and I worry that he will still struggle with this when we go home in 18 or so months.
