Asymetric sweating

[Ozalynda]

My gelding sweats significantly more on his left side than his right side. He is otherwise perfectly healthy, and I figure this is just one of his idiosyncrasies.

Anyone else have a horse that does that? Any speculations why it is?

[JB]

How old is he?

I have seen it linked to early Cushing's/PPD

[goodhors]

We see it on horses who are not using both sides of their body in work. Stiff sided, or not giving thru the body. One side of the neck is sweaty, but not the other side.

Getting horse equally flexible, using themselves over the whole body, seems to then cause equal sweating on both sides.

[Ozalynda]

He is 7 years old. No reason at all to think he has cushings. He is in good form. I ride endurance with him so I will be the first to admit that we do not do any ring work or dressage. Therefore it is quite possible that he is stiffer to one side than the other. I DO do neck bending excercises with him though and he doesn't seem to be limited to one side or the other.

Goodhors, is the sweating on the stiffer side or the looser side?

[deltawave]

I wouldn't consider it abnormal if the horse had always been that way, but in my old mare it was one of the early signs she had with EPM. More patchy and random than side-to-side asymmetry in her case, although it was all on the right side of her body and that was the side where all her weakness/sensory loss was.

[goodhors]

Thinking back, seems like the sweaty side is the stiff one. Probably because horse is resisting harder on that side. May not be used to using it at all! So those muscles would not be fit. Often would be quite foamy, while the other, better side might have some dampness or nothing, during the work.