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Cool-Heat Blanket

One Blanket For All Seasons.
Natural thermo regulation - Tough 600D outer combined with revolutionary lining.

All Weather Horse Blanket
The Cool Heat Blanket allows the horses natural thermo regulation process, through "Pilo-erection" to take place.

Pilo-erection - The hair stands up to trap heat when the horse is cold, lays down to dissipate heat when the horse is hot. This process prevents overheating and chills.

 

Macs Equine's revolutionary "Cool Heat" horse blanket has an insulating system which allows the horse to regulate it's own temperature by using it's natural thermo regulation process. So before you go shopping for your next blanket  explore the advantages of the "Cool Heat"

Pilo-Erection (raising and lowering of the hair) is one of the processes a horse uses to control Thermal Regulation (warming and cooling of the body). Long term blanket us leads to the destruction of a horses Pilo-Erection ability. This is because small muscle fibers attached to each hair follicle become inactive due to constant flattening and atrophy occurs (muscle weakening) and a horse can no longer raise its hairs to retain body heat. The horse then becomes dependent on permanent blanketing.

 

 
Advantages of the Cool-Heat Blanket

The big advantage of the Cool Heat Blanket over ordinary traditional blankets is that the blanket is raised almost a 1/2 inch  above the skin therefore Pilo- Erection is not significantly impeded.

Sweating is one of a horses natural cooling processes sand quite normal. The problem is when horses are covered with  ordinary traditional blankets, sweat is soaked up into the blanket and trapped against the skin. This creates a sauna like environment which overheats the horse as well as causing skins conditions which generally result in flakey skin and the horse becoming itchy.

A Cool Heat Blanket does not trap the sweat against the skin or allow sweat to be soaked up into the blanket. As a result, under the blanket provides a much cooler and more comfortable environment. When the horse does sweat when wearing a Cool Heat the sweat is wicked up off the skin by hair movement and out onto the ends of the hair follicles. It also lingers on the blanket lining until it is naturally dried.. Additionally, it is important to realize that if a horse is sweating with minimal movement, it is evident blanketing is not required.
Horses have a core body temperature of 100.4 degrees F.  For optimum health, this temperature must be maintained and they effectively do when running wild in either the heat or the cold. As with the human body, if the horse's core body temperature fluctuates by a small amount, they could become sick and lethargic.  As with humans, constant high internal body temperatures can lead to cell damage as well as other unseen problems.

Most blanketed horses spend their days overheated. When you place your hand under your horses blanket  the hair should never be toasty warm but barely warm even bordering on cool to the touch.  We humans clothe ourselves with multiple layers  when it's cold weather, but even with the slightest amount of exercise we have to remove a layer because we start feeling uncomfortable. The same applies to our horses, but unfortunately, they cannot remove their clothing.

 

 

 

Tip: How to Measure: From Center of Chest to Point of Buttock.

 

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