Signs Your Horse or Pony may be too hot under their rugs or maybe too cold

By David Marlin on 12 December 2022 Articles

SIGNS YOUR HORSE OR PONY MAY BE TOO HOT UNDER THEIR RUGS
 Sweating or moist to touch under rug
 Altered behaviour
 Restless
 Unhappy
 Kicking at rugs
 Biting at rugs
 Rubbing against objects
 Rolling
 Increased respiratory rate
 Reduced appetite

SIGNS YOUR HORSE OR PONY MAY BE TOO COLD
 Lethargic
 Cold to touch over shoulder under rug (if worn)
 Reduced appetite
 Unhappy
 Depressed
 Shivering (extreme)
 Colic

David Marlin

Dr David Marlin is a physiologist and biochemist who has worked in academia, research and professional sport. He has worked in the equestrian and veterinary world and in human sport, healthcare, medicine and exercise science. In 1989 David obtained his PhD from the UK’s leading sports university, Loughborough University following a four-year study on the responses of Thoroughbred racehorses to exercise and training, undertaken at the renowned Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. You can read David's full biography in the Our Website section.