Help for Reoccuring Dirty Willy/Sheath?!!!!

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Need some help with Badger the Fjord. He keeps getting a dirty willy! We owned him a good year and a half without any probs and then this summer he started getting black tar like gunk down his legs which was coming from his sheath. We tried various things to clean it and nothing helped so we called the vet. They came out cleaned it under sedation but didn't find anything physically wrong (this was approx mid August), it's now come back again and he's getting the gunk down his legs again.

Any ideas what to do?

We will get the vet again to give it a good clean but we'd like to solve the problem if poss!

We changed him from shavings to straw bedding but that hasn't helped. We've tried the usual things - water, baby oil etc
 
Is it possible that he's over producing smegma because you've been cleaning it? And it is normal for some 'product' to be in evidence.

Several posters here advocate using olive oil rather than the baby oil....
 
Sorry, can't help but want to hear to replies as I have same prob. Had my D just over a year and he has same prob but hes fine with me cleaning it with a bit of baby oil, It has to be done every month really or get the black gunk down his legs! had geldings in the past and never had it with the others so will be interesting to hear what other people say..
 
OK, I am now officially an expert in this!! lol! Mine is on box rest and his sheath got swollen because of the grease gunk up there. I was told NOT to use sheath cleaners or anything like that, and the best thing to use is KY Jelly, it is water based so will not affect the 'good' bacteria in the sheath that fights infections.

Well you need to go and buy a vat of the stuff - unfortunately they don't do very large tubes but the largest should be enough for one doseage. Squeeze it into your hand and stick yoour arm as high up into the sheath as possible - this is normally to elbow. Then smear the KY jelly all around and up and down the sheath. If you do this in the morning then leave it in there until the evening, you will get a lot of residue come out during the course of the day onto his belly and leg area, get some warm water and slosh out the sheath. It doesn't matter if there is come KY left up there as it wont harm him. They say do this once a week till it's all clean. However my vet did mention that my boy's was really bad, this was on the Monday, I cleaned it on the Wed and then the following Mon, they checked it and it was 'super clean'!!

Very embarrassing to get the KY though!! LOL! good luck!
 
We only started cleaning it because we couldn't stand to have the black stuff down his legs in the summer as it's sticky so you can't groom it off very easily. We've left it well alone since the vet in August but it's now come back.

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Stinky is like this - apparently some geldings are just that way. I was told this my by vet when I had him out as I had never had such a filthy sheath all the time. He also told me that older and less active geldings often get dirty sheaths. Cairo did as he aged and didn't get ridden as much.

Stinky also likes to rub his belly and fills it with mud and grit which adds to the delights.

What I do is to stick the hose up the sheath in summer and then use my hand to get the lumps and worst of the smeggy stuff out and then rinse again with the hose. I have to do this weekly or his white legs and feather goes black and horrible.

He has nothing wrong with his equipment - just over produces. I only use water apart from the spring when he gets a little sheath clean as it can be a bit horrid and smelly from not having as much attention over the cold months.

In winter, I can go longer between rinse outs and then being a nice mum, I use a big old syringe and warm water and again my hand to drag out the black stuff.

He also suffers from beans. At two I felt a lump when cleaning and out popped a cheesy bean about 1" long
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I now look and pop out small lumps about once a month - easy to do if they are small. If yours is like him, you may need to check for this also. Again vet said some geldings just do this.

Thank goodness he never objects to me squeezing his todger and digging out the dirt.

Might be worth next time you have the vet out for them just double check the equipment.

I have resigned myself to being a constant willy washer for the next 20 years or so. Should have stuck to mares - one quick wipe and bingo, clean bits again.
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you can get a herb that helps with this i could try and find it out fom my friend for you if you like? clean with warm water and baby oil. If no better call the vet!x
 
I have had two geldings this year with disgusting gungky sheaths. I don't use sheat cleaners but have always used baby oil. I will certainly try ky jelly and olive oil.

Top tip for rmoving the black gunk from back legs I use Suafega (spelling) or some other industrial solvent for hands and finds it gets rid of it easily.
 
Swarfega! What a brilliant idea, hubby uses this on his hands after servicing vehicles, its mild but effective.
On the subject of willy cleaning our old horse got a real bad problem when on box rest and I was cleaning him weekly, my current cob leaves a sticky residue on his legs and in the summer gets washed every few months with sheath cleaner.
Baby oil also works well and is fine to just keep things well oiled so it cleans itself.
He only had a "bean" once - when I first got him three years ago. I guess no -one washed him up until then.
 
My big lad had a huge prob up there a couple of years ago, my vet told me to use mild soap and this will not strip off any good/bad bacteria. I only clean up there a few times a year but am constantly cleaning his legs and picking off dried smeg
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, its disgusting.
 
HI- I guarantee this WILL make you LAUGH.
I am also in this same boat of sufferers and black smegma on his leg and 2 weeks ago my FEMALE PARTNER - yes I am gay so this is NOT what I like to do with my days play with smelly willys - could smell something really bad and we didn't realise it was his willy, we thought it was his feet.
So anyway I hosed it a couple of weeks, he didnt mind and then yesterday got the gloves on and sheath cleaner mixed in the water and stuck my hand up there and massaged out as much black stuff as I could - whilst pulling that puking face. I am doing more tomorrow.
Different people have different opinions as some say leave it and some say move it
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My gelding can be icky too. The day before I intend to give him a clean I squirt a syringe of baby oil up there. It shoots it right to the top!
 
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