Any vets around/people who have had their colts gelded? (Also in NL)

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As i posted last Mon, i had my colt gelded and everything went ok with the procedure but i had to call the vet out later on Mon evening as some tissue had pushed back out of the drainage hole that the vet had left and he was bleeding so she had to push the tissue back in and stitch it up.

Everything fine after that, did controlled walking and turned him out, she advised me to keep him in at night for couple of days which i did and now hes out 24/7 as he was before. His sheath was not overly swelled and I washed his legs so i could see if there happened to be any bleeding. No blood on his legs this morning but when i went back up tonight he had a bit on both legs. Stood him on the yard and noticed his sheath had swelled up from this morning and saw blood on the concrete, but its more fluidy than pure blood and its just a drip/spotting of blood. Hes fine in himself, ate his tea and wandered round field as normal. Would you get vet back out tomorrow to have a look? She said i could just go into the vets and collect some antibiotics if it did happen to swell. Ive not had a horse gelded before so i was wondering is it normal for him to still be bleeding?
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Have replied briefly via pm but I had my colt gelded just over three weeks ago. He came round a bit when the one he'd tucked up was done so had to be sedated a bit more to finish. Anyway once the vet had gone, I noticed something dark and shiny poking out of the wound. Called the vet back and she said it was muscle but that once the wound started healing it would be OK.

Kept him in the first night then he went out 24/7 but he swelled up rather alarmingly. I tang the vet and emailed a photo of how swollen he was, sheath and behind, and they gave me some antibiotics to inject for 6 days (which is horrible - stabbing your baby with nasty big needles!!!)

Anyway nothing was shifting this swelling ao the senior partner came back out, had a look, and said yes it was an infection but as he was still eating well and had no temp, to continue the injections and then give him 8 days more on powders - he's 4 days in.

Also I can wash the gunky bits with hibiscrub. In the last few days the swelling has started to shift - well the sheath swelling has gone, but he's still dripping a bit of blood, and his insides of his legs are coated with sticky blood and gunk which I'm washing off every night.

Very few gelding operations have this complication, we're just the unlucky ones!

Keep it clean, keep him out, keep the flies off and get some more antibiotics would be my advice, and call the vet back out if there is still no improvement with the extra antibiotics.
 
We had a donkey colt gelded a couple of weeks ago, apparently donkeys are much more complicated to geld than horses and our vet was quite worried cos he'd never done it before. We heard a lot of horror stories about them bleeding for weeks on end but were lucky with ours, kept him in for a couple of hours and turned him out for the afternoon.
They come in at night anyway and there was a bit of blood in the stable the next day, nothing major and touch wood everything has healed up fine, but they said they wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of bleeding for a few days afterwards.
 
If he's very swollen give him anti inflamatories for a few days aswell as the anti biotics, he'll be fine.
 
Poor boys!!!
I've just had 12 boys done in the past two weeks (3 blocks of 4 (poor vet!!)) and they have been a little swollen but nothing major.....
Vet prescribed antibiotics for all basically because he was using a 'communal tool' and although cleaned between each horse he just wanted to be on the safe side.
All boys swelling either almost away or away completely...
Hope they heal up soon!!
 
Oh god, I wish I hadn't read this, we're getting two mini shetlands done on Friday and we've never had them gelded before, I thought it was going to be pretty straight forward. Is this common? Hope all the men are ok, poor things!
 
It's normal for a bit of bleeding to go on for a few days. In general a bit of dripping is good because you know the wound is draining well, as it should.

Sometimes a bit of a "gush" can be seen after the horse has moved around- this is because a bit of dripping goes on inside and creates a little puddle in the scrotum which can all come out together when he moves. This is normal.

Basically if you can count the drips, it's ok. Anything light pink (ie not a blood clot) hanging from the wound is a cause for concern. If you're worried call your vet, even if only to describe what you can see over the phone and get some reassurance.
 
I'm glad this question was asked - fingers crossed for our two mini boys on Friday - they don't know what they are in for...!
 
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