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[RC] Hot horses - Mike Sherrell

Is it unusal for fairly well-conditioned horses, not dehyrated, under
saddle, to kind of poop out at high temps, dry heat of 100 or over?

Regards,

Mike Sherrell

Grizzly Analytical (USA)
707 887 2919/fax 707 887 9834
www.grizzlyanalytical.com



-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Barb Peck
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:09 PM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC] HOT shoes.


Although I'm not a professional trimmer- (meaning I don't make my living at
it)
I have been trimming off and on since the late 60's- when I learned from my
then current farrier.
I've also apprenticed for a short time trimming in Ca. with a well known
(not Strasser) farrier.

I work for a big company and many years ago- way before the barefoot
movement, - sometime in the 80;s
I borrowed a sensor from work and did sort of the same experiement you did -
mainly getting interested in doing it after I burned the bottom of my OWN
feet wearing flip-flops and walking on blacktop pavement that was obviously
way hotter than the air temp (mid 90's).

I didn't come to the same conculsions as you did-
because to compare apples to apples, I would have had to measure the heat
at the interface between the shoe and the bottom of the foot- versus the
heat between the interface between the bare hoof wall/sole and the
pavement...
plus I probably don't need to mention that there's a huge difference in road
surface temperatures (blacktop versus cement) and sunlight is also another
variable..

So. My conclusion was that because I wasn't measuring the interface space- I
could not compare the measurements.

But I did come to the conclusion that no one- man or beast, shod or not
should be made to stand on black pavement on a hot day in the direct sun.

Now that I think of it- what about these boot materials?  I would imagine
they would heat up pretty good too under certain circumstances (i.e. black
hot pavement).
Have you measured those?

Barb







The hoof directly above the hot shoe was almost as hot as the shoe, 2
degrees cooler, and heat from the shoe was carried up into the wall for 1/2
to 2/3 inch on this not too hot day, decreasing as the sensor moved up the
wall.

What was interesting was that the barefoot horse, which had a recently
rasped and mustang rolled wall, showed only a negligible raise in
temperature directly above where the hoof rested on the hot driveway... It
was less than a degree warmer than the wall 1/4 inch down from the coronet
band.


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