Is Continuous Monitoring of Skin Surface Temperature a Reliable Proxy to Assess the Thermoregulatory Response in Endurance Horses During Field Exercise?

ABSTRACT: Hyperthermia is a performance and welfare issue for exercising horses. The thermoregulatory stressors associated with exercise have typically been estimated by responses in the laboratory. However, monitoring surface skin temperature (T _sk ) coincident with core temperature (T _c ) has not previously been investigated in horses exercising in the field. We investigated the suitability of monitoring surface T _sk as a metric of the thermoregulatory response, and simultaneously investigated its relationship with T _c using gastrointestinal (GI) temperature. We evaluated T _sk in 13 endurance horses competing during four endurance rides over 40 km (n = 1) or a total of 80 km (n = 12) distance. F

SUBMITTER: Verdegaal EJMM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9196037 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature