gelding owners - the dreaded cleaning of that part *shhh*

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jst wondered how often u guys do it, if at all.


i think my boy needs it doing as he makes that grungy noise when trotting. gave him a bath today and had a quick feel and it feels manky, but he DID NOT appreciate even that. not sure if i can clean it without him taking offence. tips pls!!!
 
Don't do my boys at all. Part of the reason being he would probably kill me if I tried
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He is very (very) ticklish and sensitive in 'that' area.
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I wait until he is 'relaxed' usually when eating and give it a quick squirt with Wonder Gel or Baby Oil
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- whichever i can grab quickest and leave it to 'self clean'. The old boy I look after is a bit trickier as he knows what I am trying to do - so waits until I have left the field/he is at the top of his field to get it out!!
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I am lucky in that both my boys enjoy it and to be honest while I won't say I enjoy it the same it does give me some satisfaction to see them nice and clean afterwards and not as smelly ( which helps to repel some of the flies lol). I do it a couple of times a year with just warm water and baby oil. In fact when my big lad has a bath in the next few weeks I will do his then and get the cobs done in the meantime. If it feels and looks manky then it does need a clean in my opinion. But if you use something like warm water and baby oil then you can't go far wrong as it doesn't upset the natural ph/bacteria balance that much. Just steer away from soap and some sheath cleaners are not necessarily what they are cracked up to be either.
If he won't tolerate you cleaning it then ask the vet for some sedalin or similar so that you can give him a clean without him becoming too fractious. As long as he understands you are not going to hurt him he should get used to the idea. I just feel that geldings can feel a little vulnerable when we are cleaning their bits in the same way as some horses feel at unease having a leg held up until they become more accustomed to us.
Give him time and he should be fine with the idea.
I know most people wear gloves and I only do if my nails are long so I won't hurt them but usually I go naked so I can feel clearly what I am doing as rubber gloves can be quite cumbersome at times and can make it awkward imo. Good luck
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I dont do my horses either as he tries to kick me in the head! Wild horses dont get them washed so im sure he will be fine too. Its pretty clean, doesnt smell and he doesnt make that noise when trotting either!
 
Does that noise definitely mean 'down there' is a bit manky?
My chap has just started making this noise but he is quite a clean chap, and whilst I have never cleaned him, it is certainly not smelly and no dirty than it has ever been!

Sorry to hi-jack your post but was planning on making a post about this but didn't know how to describe the noise!
 
Calling all gelding owners! Please all try and attempt to clean your geldings' sheaths a couple of times a year - I don't know how many of you know that the smegma that builds up is a carcinogen and can cause penile cancer in old age - I experenced this first hand (got given an 18yo that had not had it cleaned much) and age 20 he had to undergo a £2000 operation to amputate half his penis as it had become cancerous. Not a pleasant operation as and older horse is higher risk anaesthetic and the penis bleeds a lot as it's so vascular. He had a 3 da ystay in hosp and was wearing a sling to try and stem the bleeding. And a year down the line, he got a pathological fracture of his femur in the field and had to be put down as it was thought by the vets at the time that the cancer had spread and weakened that bone...
Sorry for the horror story but for the sake of having a grumpy/pissed off horse twice a year, I think it's worth at least trying to clean it!
 
I agree with Bean, i know a lot of people say not to touch it but if i didn't clean my boys, then i wouldn't have seen the wee ulcer looking things on it and possibly not had squamous cell carcenoma diagnosed til it was too late. The treatment was not nearly as awful as Beans, but still was scary and a real worry. Even when they have got it out, have a good look to see if anything looks strange.
I have to clean his sheath area a wee bit more often because of the treatment, he now produces more 'stuff'. He lifts his leg like a dog to let me clean around his sheath etc.
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It is over a year since they were frozen off and he is still clear. yay.
 
Urrrgggghh, tried it once, he nearly kicked my head in:), I work on the assumption now, that he can reach it with his tongue, so can clean it him self.
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INfact, this year he does clean it himself and it is spotless!!!!
 
I use vaseline, put my hand up inside and smoother 'it' in it. Each time he gets it out bit of smegma stuff fall off, the next day when it was out it was spotless! Luckily my gelding lifts his back legs but never kicks out. I just stop everytime he does this to give him a breather lol and then start again :-D

Always use rubber gloves....
 
Noise is not always an indication that it is dirty "down there" it can also be caused by tension.
One of my boys won't let me with 10ft of it so I give it the occassional squirt of baby oil with aloe vera which does a wonderful job of self cleaning.
 
I don't know if this is a recommended method always having had mare's myself!

My friend however, waits for her gelding to "drop it" then squirts it with as much baby oil as she can. The idea being that as the horse withdraws the crappy bit's fall off.

It definately works really well, but I am never sure about using baby oil. I know if used too liberally in humans it can start water infections.
 
An easy trick for boys who are.... sensitive in that area is to squirt a syringe full of baby oil up there. Because its squirts out under pressure it goes really high. By the time your boy realised what you've done its over.

Just remember that there is no such thing as geldings in nature so no natural cleaning method, so we really do have to do it for them.

My stallion has always been ultra clean but my gelding gets his done as soon as I see smeggy deposits on his legs every few months.
 
When my horse indicates it needs doing. He does this by cocking up his back leg and looks at me at the same time.

In summer about once a week, in winter every 2-3 weeks.
 
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When my horse indicates it needs doing. He does this by cocking up his back leg and looks at me at the same time.

In summer about once a week, in winter every 2-3 weeks.

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errmm, i think you might find that he doesn't 'need' it done, he just quite likes
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He maybe sells tickets to his pals to watch
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I was lucky with my old pony, who used to stick it out and I could rub any bits of it and he used to enjoy me using a damp piece of cotton wool with very dilute hibiscrub and the hose pipe (on very slowly) and pocking it up round the edges always found it very satisfing to see all the bits falling out, (how sad am I??)
He always made people on the yard laugh because he would stand with a smile on his face when I washed it for him, but could never get the hose pipe near his legs!
 
I clean it as and when. If he's relaxed and his penis is hanging down I have a good old check of it, check for a bean etc. and pick of any flaky smegma that might be on it.

Once in a while I pop some baby oil on it.
 
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