I'm keepin it real here folks this is the grossest part about owning horses
this is one of those videos where I'm going to go ahead and put this little
disclaimer out there parental discretion is advised with this video this video is
something that I feel is very important for all horse owners regardless of age
to watch but everybody's a little bit different so something that I'm
comfortable with my kids watching might be something that someone else is not
comfortable with their kids watching so parents please please be advised and
watch this video before allowing your kids to watch in this video I'm gonna
show you all about sheath cleaning and if you have a gelding unfortunately it's
something that has to be done so this is bare bears gelding and bear needs a
sheath cleaned every year I'm going to tell you a little story about my
experience with geldings and why it's important to clean their sheets so
several years ago I was actually pregnant at the time I had a horse named
akka ho Donahoe started limping and we could not figure out why he was limping
and I actually had the vet out to do we did lameness exam we did x-rays on
everything that could potentially have been the issue
and at the end bears getting a little this is really good training right now
because bear wants to leave and I'm like no we're just gonna sit here so he just
finished eating this grain and he's being a little impatient
while the vet was going over the x-rays he was not finding anything that could
potentially be causing the sliminess and I remembered a story that a friend told
me years ago about how her horse was mysteriously lame they couldn't figure
it out and they cleaned his sheath and found a very large beam well so while
the vet was here being that I was pregnant
cleaning his sheets was not something that I was willing to partake in and so
it hadn't been done but we do him we do him once a year at least anyway
depending on the horse the vet did a thorough examination of this horse's
sheath and everything that goes along with that and found a being about the
size of a quarter now for those of you who know what a
bean is and where it comes from understand that the size of the whole of
where it's at is not that big so this bean was the size of a quarter and the
vet had to break it up into four or five pieces to actually even get it out and
so you know magically the next day suddenly the horse isn't limping anymore
so here I spent all this time and energy and money on getting this horse checked
out and all it was was a beam causing this problem so I learned my I learned
my lesson and no two with geldings if there's anything that seems you know
sore in that general area and hind end of the horse I immediately go for
checking for a beam so really important and today we have dr. Rebecca Vollrath
with us copper country's engineering and what
about sheep Oh chief cleanings are nice to do every year for them because they
get awfully dirty and beams are very uncomfortable and can even cause falling
if they're large enough and obstructing their ability to urinate and cleaning
them out is often difficult without sedation so it's often done at the same
time as their flow so for viewing purposes can you show me exactly where
to look for a beam so the urethra is right here and there's the urethral prop
faucet here this holes part where I'm putting my fingers in and they can store
a beam anywhere in that whole area so you have to kind of dig around and
there's some stuff I just talked about it yeah goo okay they don't always
appreciate it they'll also be safe
smegma just kind of crusty stuff that I'm peeling out and all that it
concrete's together and get stuck in that fossa and makes a beam I have to
break it into pieces
so smelly
he's crusty for sure
in relations or anything
Cuffy sheath is super swollen from all the mud that we've had horses haven't
been moving around very much so he's just gonna get this checked out a little
bit while it gets cleaned but that should go away as soon as he starts
moving around more
a big bead hmm
so tired eat toffee he has like no sheets
compared to that big gelding oh yeah
going after me mechanic you see lips is to break into small pieces
I won't include you sniffing it yeah and horses we worry about squamous cell with
them okay I don't feel anything deep down in there or to see anything on the
outside here but if he ever does drop nice for you I'll try to get it down you
can kind of always try to keep an eye on it if you notice any major crusts okay
come on that's okay important
I don't see anything on here
here's the beam that just came out of Diego having geldings
as gross as it is it is something that we must do is force owners I'm feeling
pretty lucky that I only own two geldings a lot of people ask me they're
like well you know do you prefer marriage over geldings no I don't prefer
either I just happen to have a lot of Marisa my heard I have 14 horses and
only two of them are geldings and they're both ponies bear is one of them
and then Lucky's yet a gal Dean that I own but still with that being said I
make sure to check them out real good and a good time to do it is when the
dentist comes the vet comes to do dental work on the horses because they're
sedated and it makes it so you can get in there and do what you need to do if
you're not comfortable cleaning your horses sheath you can definitely ask
your vet to take care of that for you well that's a wrap I hope you found this
video helpful maybe a little bit interesting maybe a little bit
disgusting maybe you don't ever want to own a gelding again I don't know but
anyway I hope that it did help you in some way if you enjoyed this video
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