Should we be worried? Slightly silly question, sorry!

[EternalVetBills]

Bit of an icky one so apologies in advance. This might also be a bit of a dim/novicey question but I've not actually dealt with something like this before.

Doing the horses this evening and I noticed a bit of straw hanging out of the little Dude's sheath. Went to pull it out and realised it went quite a way up, so stuck my hand up there and pulled this out from the end of his penis...

https://imgur.com/a/2b5btl6

It's about the length of my hand and the width of two fingers, very very stinky! He had a bit of discharge down his back legs too, never had anything like that before.

Should I be worried about it? None of my geldings have ever been at all dirty and I've never had to clean them, so have absolutely no experience of what's a normal amount of gunk.

I've got the vet coming on Friday to do his teeth so I will ask her to have a look whilst he's sedated if anyone thinks it's something to be concerned about.

As always TIA and sorry for the stupid question!

 

[splashgirl45]

not a stupid question, i wouldnt know what it was ...i would phone the vet tomorrow and send them the photo just in case it is something not good..then you can either call them out or relax until friday

 

[EternalVetBills]

not a stupid question, i wouldnt know what it was ...i would phone the vet tomorrow and send them the photo just in case it is something not good..then you can either call them out or relax until friday

Thank you, think that's what I'll be doing.

Just wanted to double check I wasn't overreacting. Someone on the yard has just found out that their horse has got cancer up in his sheath and think it's made the rest of us slightly paranoid!

 

[Equi]

I have never seen anything like that in my life ?

I’ve seen gunk that colour before but not that shape, it’s more like cottage cheese.

 

[ycbm]

I don't like the look of that at all. Will you update us with what your vet says? I'm hoping it's nothing, but I'd definitely be checking, you aren't over reacting.

ETA my spotty horse produces smegma that blood colour, but it's not fibrous like that, it's more like lumps of putty.
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[EternalVetBills]

I have never seen anything like that in my life ?

I’ve seen gunk that colour before but not that shape, it’s more like cottage cheese.

Thank you both, okay I will ring the vet as soon as they open tomorrow morning.

I don't like the look of that at all. Will you update us with what your vet says? I'm hoping it's nothing, but I'd definitely be checking, you aren't over reacting.
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Yes absolutely, I'll update as soon as I know anything. Hopefully it's nothing ?

 

[EternalVetBills]

I don't like the look of that at all. Will you update us with what your vet says? I'm hoping it's nothing, but I'd definitely be checking, you aren't over reacting.

ETA my spotty horse produces smegma that blood colour, but it's not fibrous like that, it's more like lumps of putty.
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Just seen your edit YCBM; it had straw and hair mixed in there, I broke it apart after I took the picture as was worried about the texture

 

[ycbm]

Just seen your edit YCBM; it had straw and hair mixed in there, I broke it apart after I took the picture as was worried about the texture

Well I'd be far less worried, then. It looks just like Ludo's smegma would look like if it had got mixed up with hair. How on earth has he got that much hair up his sheath, though! ?

 

[EternalVetBills]

Well I'd be far less worried, then. It looks just like Ludo's smegma would look like if it had got mixed up with hair. How on earth has he got that much hair up his sheath, though! ?

Okay phew. Will still obviously ring the vet though.
I'm not really sure, it was mainly straw, but still enough hair to wonder how it got there. He was clipped about 3 weeks ago, but I've never had a problem with hair getting up there before.
He has also been on box rest to keep my mare company for the past week, so I wondered whether it might be the lack of movement that's caused a build up?

 

[Equi]

If the bulk of the material is hair then id be much (much) less worried.

 

[holeymoley]

It just looks like a very very big lump of grot from the sheath. My guy is pink skinned and his Yukky stuff is that colour. He’s never had a bit that long before though. I’d say it’s normal, just looks like he could do with a clean, probably longer as it had the straw up there too!

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Impressive! I’ve never had anything other than cornflakes on the boy’s penis.

 

[Regandal]

When my wb was bedded on straw he frequently had bits of straw stuck in his sheath. Wasn’t too happy about having them removed either. I think it was the way he lay down or got up.
I wouldn’t worry too much.

 

[EternalVetBills]

Thank you everyone. Picture been sent to the vet. Will update you all when she get back to me ?

ETA: just heard from Mum that his stable was much wetter today. His stable has been unusually dry with only a couple of small wee patches lately, so hopefully we've cleared some sort of blockage he had going on ?

 

[ycbm]

Impressive! I’ve never had anything other than cornflakes on the boy’s penis.

Unusual. I generally have mine from a bowl.
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[EternalVetBills]

Unusual. I generally have mine from a bowl.
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Oh, you're definitely eating them all wrong then...

 

[Fransurrey]

Impressive! I’ve never had anything other than cornflakes on the boy’s penis.

Well, thanks for ruining every cornflake breakfast I have for the foreseeable...

 

[ownedbyaconnie]

Unusual. I generally have mine from a bowl.
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I don’t know if it’s because I’ve spent all morning on a college course for my next tax exam which is dry and dull but this literally had me crying ?

 

[exracehorse]

I don't like the look of that at all. Will you update us with what your vet says? I'm hoping it's nothing, but I'd definitely be checking, you aren't over reacting.

ETA my spotty horse produces smegma that blood colour, but it's not fibrous like that, it's more like lumps of putty.
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My horse has black tar smeg. But nothing like that

 

[exracehorse]

Impressive! I’ve never had anything other than cornflakes on the boy’s penis.

Made me feel sick ?

 

[EternalVetBills]

The vet has just replied; she's hoping it's just normal build up, but as we're sedating him on Friday anyway, she's going to have a proper look at it then ...

@Cinnamontoast I think you might need to apologise for ruining everyone's breakfasts for the foreseeable future ??

ETA: message from the vet now it's finished downloading

https://imgur.com/a/o3R0Vlv

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Well, thanks for ruining every cornflake breakfast I have for the foreseeable...

Made me feel sick ?

So sorry to all who normally enjoy the crunchy (or remarkably soggy of left too long!) goodness of cornflakes for breakfast. Everyone normally talks about that as cornflakes round here. Oops. ??

 

[Frumpoon]

Unusual. I generally have mine from a bowl.
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I'm hyperventilating

 

[Pedantic]

My horse has black tar smeg. But nothing like that

Yes my horse is the same, doesnt really smell either, I keep an eye on it and clean if needed, if it's ok I leave alone.

 

[Beachbabe]

Having had a difficult afternoon, the comments on here really made me chuckle. Thanks for cheering me up!

 

[PSD]

Can always count on ycbm for a fantastic comeback ?

 

[EternalVetBills]

Just a quick update for everyone.

Had the vet out to the little man yesterday. Thankfully everything is fine it's just normal build up *phew*. The vet thinks that it was just a combination of many things, hot weather, a lot less exercise than normal, and somehow getting quite a lot of debris up there.

He has got few little cuts up there which we're really not sure how he managed to get those ?‍. Any ideas on that would be much appreciated!

Overall she said it looked very healthy and was deeply disturbed by just how much our weird little pony likes having his private parts being cleaned ?