Aerochill Rug for Horses

Product description

The Aerochill Rug:  Evaporative Cooling for horses to aid recovery time and maximise performance.

• Designed to aid in cooling the horse and helping muscle recovery.
• Helps in alleviating heat exhaustion.
• Excellent to use pre-competition to keep your horse cool to help gain maximum performance.
• Aerochill is a super absorbent polymer fibre fabric which works by latent evaporation pulling heat from the horse and evaporating off the outside of the rug and improving blood circulation.
• Easy to use, simply pour water over the rug and put straight on the horse.  For the rug to keep working it must be kept wet.
• Front buckle, belly strap and fillet string to secure. 
• Comes in its own Aerochill cool bag.
• 2 sizes: S/M to fit rug size 5ft9-6ft3.   Large to fit approx size 6ft6 - 6ft9.

Testimonial from Team GB's Event Rider Gemma Tattersall

“The Aero Chill rug is a fab bit of kit and is so easy to use. It is perfect for those hot days when you really need to cool your horse after XC. Just pop it on after you’ve washed them off and it will bring their temperature down, helping muscle recovery and improving performance”

Winner of BETA Innovation Award 2018

HORSECARE EQUIPMENT & CLOTHING
Winner: Treehouse | Product: AeroChill cooling rug

The rug is designed to aid in cooling a horse, alleviating heat exhaustion and helping muscle recovery. It is made of a super-absorbent polymer fibre fabric that pulls heat from the horse and improves blood circulation.

Judges’ comments: “The science behind this product is admirable. It is very good quality, realistically priced, useful in all disciplines and comes in fantastic packaging.”

Testimonial from Endurance Rider - Victoria Smith, 

Victoria Smith, has competed in endurance for over 16 years and rides at Advanced level.  She is also Chair of the Heart of England Group of Endurance GB.

Rug results: Tested on an 18 year old Haflinger mare at the Red Dragon ride over the Black Mountains in mid Wales. Competed on 3 consecutive days totalling 126km (42k Friday, 48k Saturday, 36k Sunday) October 2017.

Day1: The Control: The first day I didn’t use the rug, walked for the final mile - final heart rate (after 30 mins) 56 bpm (needs to be under 64 to pass but lower HR goes towards the criteria for obtaining a higher grade and therefore points for the ride).

Day2:, The mare walked/trotted final mile – final heart rate (after 30 mins) 48 bpm - HR was 70bpm 20 minutes after finishing – we walked with the rug on for the final 10 mins

Day3: (tired horse), trotted final mile - final heart rate (after 30 mins) 54 bpm - HR was 86bpm 20 minutes after finishing – we walked with the rug on for the final 10 mins

Over the 6 rides I have completed on Gizmo this year her final HR has never been below 55bpm.

Article from The British Grooms Association Magazine August 2018

The Aerochill rug and boots are designed to aid in cooling a horse, alleviating heat exhaustion and helping muscle recovery. They are made of a super-absorbent polymer fibre fabric that pulls heat from the horse and improves blood circulation. Because the rug and boots decrease recovery time this can help to maximise performance.  AeroChill Cooling Boots provided reduction in thermal skin temperature over 10 minutes, while the AeroChill Cooling Rug provided  reduction in thermal skin temperature over 10 minutes.  The attached thermographic shows spot 1 after wearing the cooling boot for 10 minutes 21.5 degrees celcius.  Spot 2 shows the area of the leg that did not have AeroChill cooling boots - this is reading at 30.3 degrees celcius.  In summary the results have concluded that both cooling solutions left a cooling thermal skin temperature when removed.

Directions for use:

Activation: The rugs need 2 elements to work; water and airflow. For first time of use wet in a large bucket of water for 10-15 minutes, but after this for future uses put in a large bucket for 2 - 5 minutes. (Our customers tip is that they have been putting water into the cool bag it is supplied with and this works well].  Squeeze the water out so they are wet but not dripping and put on the horse by securing the straps and fillet string. 
Apply: Straight after competition or exercise, put the rug on and then walk the horse off either in hand, or on a horse walker or grazing in hand.  Leave on for approx 25-35 minutes and then return to your normal regime. Or reapply the rug by simply reactivating it by getting it wet again.
Recovery:The rug  accelerate the recovery of the back muscles and vital organs such as lowering the heart rate by taking the heat out of the muscles.