Cleaning a geldings bits

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My share boy was lettting it all hang out tonight and I noticed it was filthy with horrible, big yellow flakes on it :eek:
Its a job that I've always managed to avoid, but since the owner is 8 months pregnant I think I'm going to have to learn how :( So how do I do it? Any thing I need to be aware of?
 
I hate this job to and im a groom!! LOL. A little trick if he lets it hang out regulary when its down i get the baby oil bottle and out some on i can usually acheive this withoug touching it!! ;)
Next time its out it will be all clean and shiny.
Ive been doing this for 10 years, its never caused any problems and all my gelding have lovely clean sheaths (people even comment on how clean) and i dont even have to get the marigolds on and do it.
Good luck:)
 
I don't mind it - it's part in parcel of having a gelding! I use sheath cleanser and gloves. As soon as you stop thinking about what you are doing it's not that bad - well just as long as no one is around haha x
 
I dont mind cleaning winkys and sheaths, I actually do other peoples, but I struggle to do my own without nearly being kicked in the head! I think I will try zoelouisem's method for my lad who also has big cornflakes! If I clean a geldings whos cool I usually just lube up my hand and stick it up and massage the smegma into balls that just drop off. Just remember to be gentle and dont forget the bean!!! :P
 
if they drop it up yes you could oil it and it will look shiny! but seriously if you want to do a good willy wash get a bucket of warm water, a large sponge and some sheath cleaner. you can and will get your arm in nearly up to your elbow, a nice rub round several times both ways and a good and thorough rinse. most horses will accept this if you are firm and positive.............. have you ever met a male that didnt like his bits being rubbed nicely? on a more serious note be careful but positive whilst you first go in!! a hard hat and good boots, most will argue a little at first then give in and pull yummy faces!
 
Yes honestly it works absolute wonders get them really clean, although if really dirty youll need to put it on a few times, i look after 2 geldings at work and my daughters pony is a gelding and there sheaths are spotless, absolutly no bits of whatever it is on them.
Two reason i do this: number one its the one thing i cant do makes me sick, i can do pretty much anything, i can inject deal ith very deep wounds ect. but i cant do that.
second reason a lady at my previous yard gave her horse an infection in the sheath, i thinks she did it to regualry:eek: (dont ask me why) so i figure if you can get it clean with the least possible fiddly around the better.:)
 
Baby oil is the wrong PH (alkalinity/acidity). You may all have got away with it but it's asking for trouble to create the wrong environment for the good bacteria to live in.

What IS this obsession with cleaning sheaths these days? I've never cleaned a gelding's sheath in over 90 horse years and never seen a problem.
 
would agree with zoelouisem that it is a job that doesnt and shouldnt be done frequently! relatively self cleaning, but if he smells or has willy goo on his back legs or struggling to pee cos of a bean then a good thorough cleaning req! the smell is usually the first sign.......... then the goo............ then the clean.......... job done.
 
cptrayes i never would have thought all your answers would have come from someone so old! but willies do require the odd clean with a good sheath cleaner (correct ph and all that!) there is nothing worse than a stinky willie and willie goo on legs! A bean is a collection of smegma (god i hate that word) trapped in the end of the penis and feels like a hard ball, and when squeezed out (usually under sedation) is a hard waxy ball!
 
I cleaned my grey pony out because he had black grease on his legs and it was attracting flies. In nature the willy gets used for the other job nature intended (!) but for geldings, especially those too lazy to get it out every time they wee, it can get very mucky up there indeed so I don't agree it's messing with nature - we have already messed with nature by gelding them!

Not only did mine appreciate a gentle cleansing, I found a lump up there, and to cut a long story short, he had a malignant melanoma removed on advice of Dr Knottenbelt of Liverpool uni.

So I would advocate a gentle cleanse on a regular basis, and hopefully I have caught this melanoma early enough so it hasn't metastised.

The bean is an accumulation of dirt etc that is found in the very tip where the urethra ends - there is a pouch-like ring, can't explain it very well, but you can gently insert a little finger round the tip and remove a coffee-bean sized brown lump of, well, gunge I guess!

Edited to add: Thanks ofcourseyoucan - smegma is the word, and god I hate that word too!
 
Llewelyn said:
In nature the willy gets used for the other job nature intended
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No it doesn't. One wild stallion runs a group of mares. That means that unless far more males are born than females, only one in six at the most get to run a harem. The rest are bachelors and live in bachelor groups. They don't use their penises any more than our geldings do. The sheath is self balancing colony of bacteria, it shouldn't be messed with! You may not like the look of it, but that does not mean that it is dirty. If you have grease on the legs, then you can clean it off the legs, but if we go sticking our rubber gloved hands up it introducing goodness knows what "cleaners" we can destroy the good bacteria and then let the bad ones thrive.

This fashion to clean out sheaths in non-breeding horses is very, very recent!

Oooh yes, I'm ancient me!
 
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I had to clean my boys bits!!!
He was struggling with having a wee, started to dribble and was unable to pee properly. He had a bean which had turned into the size of a table spoon!!!
I read up on it and carried out the bean removing process as advised and hey presto out this big thing came. I used vaseline and out it popped, no probs and no after effects. Not a very nice job to do but all the same i saved my self a fortune by not having to get the vet out. You have to get Mr Sheath and Mr Hand used to eachother first.. Good Luck..
 
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