Any tips on washing horses manly bits?

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Right, Jasper's manhood needs a clean
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Problem is he's very shy, and my friend (who loans him) had her whole hand "you know where" and couldn't err...find it
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His sheath got cleaned, but not the important bit!

So any tips?
 
I have always been told to leave horsey manly parts alone, if you wash it you wash off the bacteria that is already there (the good ones) meaning there is space for potential bad bacteria to move in.
 
WHY does it "need" a clean??

never done it in 40 yrs of owning horses...i really cant see why folk see the need to do it these days??
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Oh we know, sorry i should have been clearer, i don't mean like giving it a good scrub, but he's got bits of *stuff* on it, and we've been told to try and get it off.
 
My veterinary book "Horses health problem solver" by Roberta Baxter MRCVS says that the bits of "stuff" on the sheath can be potentially cancerous (I was shocked to read that) and can make the horse uncomfortable if they build up. Certainly my horse needs his doing as it gets caked in yuck and then he has problems urinating.
The book I mentioned says to get the sedated to do it if you cant get them to let it down. That seems a bit drastic to me but I guess if you need to.....
 
I only wash when really covered in nasty bits and smelly. regular cleaning will kill the good bacteria but no cleaning if its nasty is bad too - our modern methods of keeping them can cause more problems (ie more dehydration as they empty water buckets on a hot day, dry food which needs more water, hard water areas)

To clean (and some people I suspect will dislike this) I get on the rubber gloves and get a good squirt of sheath cleaner, get my hand up there and start picking, some dont like this but most will get used to it with parctise, if not a good aim with 1 handful of cleaner is better than nothing. Leave the cleaner for 5 minutes to loosen the gunk then stick the hosepipe up there and sliuce it all out. It is surprising how many horses will actually let you do this, most stallions actually enjoy it!!!
 
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WHY does it "need" a clean??

never done it in 40 yrs of owning horses...i really cant see why folk see the need to do it these days??
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I didn't think it needed to be done either... until I saw a horse with maggots in there and a hugely swollen sheath *vomit*
I ran a (gentle) hose up there, picked out the worst of the maggots, then sprayed with a gentle antiseptic thingy.
 
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