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Does a horse heat from the outside?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

If you mean, does the horse heat himself from the outside, then no. They use chemical means and muscular actions to heat themselves. Chemical actions go on that create heat, and they also, through muscular action, lift the hairs on their back to create a thermal blanket arounf themselves. Another way they get heat, is the grass or hay they heat. it ferments in their gut, and this produces heat also. However, when they are not given free choice hay or grass (as some are when kept in a stall) or they are clipped and/or blanketed, the clipping prevents the winter coat from being used because there is none, and the blanket will cause the muscles used to lift hairs atrophy. and the blanket doesn't heat the horse evenly either, so it does a bad job.

Since a horse heats from the inside out, this is why it is better to keep a horse unclipped and unblanketed during the wnter, and to allow free choice hay.

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15y ago

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