BARRELHORSE USA - 2017-10-12 3:43 PM Think twice on castrating before a year old!! At 5 months he has no antibodies in his system due to colostrum and no contact with other bacteria in that short time of being alive to have any type of immunity. At 5 months most are the size of peanuts and easy to make a mistake when pulling them down to get the "worm" to insure he doesn't turn out to be proud cut. As you can see the incision is large for this size of foal and folks the yellow is a spray disinfectant administered by the vet. Adult sized hands require a certain amount of working room to make sure things are being done correctly!! Appears like the incision remained laid open instead of skin to skin closure which would be normal in a larger older colt. You would need a special smaller pair of emasculators on this size of foal which are really needed to stop the bleeding, swelling and closing him off for fast healing. IMO none were used. He looks much better but I believe in being preventive so I would do the following ... Time to be a little aggressive ... Cold water thumb pressure spray the area for 5 minutes daily .. Make sure you spray some into his sheath to keep it clean and open Puff a good amount of caustic powder on the incision area that appears to be having a problem with proud flesh for a week. Since this colt has no real immunity to anything ... I would give him a powdered antibiotic and make sure he eats it or make a solution and pull it into a syringe to give by mouth like you would worming. Give him 50% more per dose so any leakage from his mouth is covered. If anyone gives him an IM shot make sure you alcohol the injection site and use a 20 gauge needle. LAST THING ... make sure he is peeing out his sheath and no leakage in the incision area .. Don't quibble around or short cut my suggestions ... the cost is less than a burger, fries and coke ... lol FYI: caustic powder eats the unique to a horse of granulated flesh that may trap a pool of infection and if allowed to turn into proud flesh it can take forever to close and will grow a gristle which creates a knot under the skin after he heals up ... Now is the time to get to work .. And next time wait till they are long yearlings or 2 yr olds .. GOOD LUCK

Kay-DRacing. - 2017-10-12 1:28 PM Thanks yall. I have a call into my vet. Still waiting to hear back and will keep you posted. In the mean time I ran home and took more pics. It IS draining. 

Southtxponygirl - 2017-10-12 5:24 PM Wow these pictures look a whole lot better, man you had me really worried there for a while. Thanks goodness hes draining    I think I would still want to take him in to the vet and make sure everything is OK on the healing part and see if he does need any meds. 

Kay-DRacing. - 2017-10-12 8:46 PM Thank you! Honestly, I was a bit worried when y'all said to call the vet right away. So I did and she actually just got back to me and says it looks normal thru pictures. I believe I'll have her out tomorrow. He was feeling really good tonight while I rode my other to give the little guy some exercise. So that made me feel better!! Here's a pic after his exercising tonight.

Kay-DRacing. - 2017-10-12 1:28 PM Thanks yall. I have a call into my vet. Still waiting to hear back and will keep you posted. In the mean time I ran home and took more pics. It IS draining. 

Meep.Meep - 2017-10-12 3:52 PM That yellow is most likely tissue, there wouldn't be any "disinfectant spray" 2 1/2 weeks later. Caustic powder would be the last thing I'd throw on there. Pressure hosing wouldn't be recommended, gentle cold water hosing yes (even my vet said NO to any cold water hosing). Powder antibiotic could reek havoc on his tummy at 5 months old, probably recently weaned? Colts his age do have immunity, colostrum helps them develop their healthy immune system, which usually takes over at 3-5 days old. I don't know where you get your "facts" but they often leave me scratching my head.