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Location: Midwest Farmer's Daughter: Central Illinois | It's disgusting! I started cleaning it this summer on a monthly basis & I hadn't looked at it for a few weeks - it's all gummed up & nasty. The BITTER cold makes it worse, the gunk balls are half frozen. None of my other horses have this ridiculous amount of buildup.
I think someone mentioned in a thread here once that they had a horse who acted poorly until they cleaned his sheath out really well & then he was back to feeling normal.
Thoughts? It's so cold I don't think it's safe for me to wash him out, maybe just use some sort of oil or something to loosen it up? Ugh. |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | ExCaliber is a sheaths best friend.... I've never cleaned one before this past summer. Hubby refused to clean his gelding. So I had to "sack up". Warm water and excaliber.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | This time of year I don't use water. Just stick my arm up there and start pulling the gunk out. |
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Location: Memphis, TN | KY Jelly. No joke. Loosens it up and you don't have to worry about rinsing it all out. |
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Location: Florida.. | barrelracin85 - 2014-01-06 3:04 PM KY Jelly. No joke. Loosens it up and you don't have to worry about rinsing it all out.
yes this works.. wear gloves |
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Location: California | I like to clean it and smell my hands afterwards. |
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| NonaY - 2014-01-06 2:14 PM
I like to clean it and smell my hands afterwards.
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | NonaY - 2014-01-06 12:14 PM I like to clean it and smell my hands afterwards.
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| Do they tend to get worse in the winter? We have 3 geldings that are all swollen so my husband cleaned them and now we have another one that needs it. |
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Location: Desert Land | THis is one of the reasons why I don't like having geldings. I recently got a gelding and I'm positive he needs to be done. I gave him a bath about a week ago and went to take take of it and all I did was put my hand near his sheath and he lifted his leg. There's a chick around here that has a little buisness called Crud Busters. It's going to be the best $40 I've ever spent. |
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Location: Southern OK aka God's Country | TheOldGrayMare - 2014-01-06 2:41 PM
THis is one of the reasons why I don't like having geldings. I recently got a gelding and I'm positive he needs to be done. I gave him a bath about a week ago and went to take take of it and all I did was put my hand near his sheath and he lifted his leg. There's a chick around here that has a little buisness called Crud Busters. It's going to be the best $40 I've ever spent.
What a way to make a living.. . . that would be an awkward first date conversation. "So what do you do?" |
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| I wonder if their sheaths are affected by climate and/or feed because ours get done a couple times a year (at best) and are rarely very bad at all. Are all of you keeping your horses stalled, or on pasture?
My gelding will get a bean built up once in a while but I casually grab his pecker and check it when he "hangs low", get rid of it, and he's generally good for 4-5 months. In summer its more common than winter, but I suspect thats because he's sweating, and rolling around in the dirt rather than clean snow.
Hubby's gelding has the cleanest sheath one could ever wish for. My old senior citizen we put down last fall would get swollen up in that area, but it was usually due to being lazy and not moving around enough more so than his sheath needing to be cleaned... I'd go for a ride and pony him a few days a week (just at a walk) and he'd be good to go... kind of like how their legs stock up I guess.
Sorry If Im stealing the OP's thread, just curious why this is more of an issue for other people's horses.
Edited by Tys-ol-lady 2014-01-06 3:03 PM
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Location: Vicksburg MS | I used to shove a handful of Vasoline up in Lestat's sheath three or four days ahead of a show and he'd be nice and squeaky clean when it came time to load up. No crusties, no crunchies, no muss, no fuss. |
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| Has anyone ever heard of cleaning a mare out? |
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| Yes, on this site. Between the tits, it gets crusty and causes them to itch in the summer is what someone said. |
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Location: Texas! | TheOldGrayMare - 2014-01-06 1:41 PM THis is one of the reasons why I don't like having geldings. I recently got a gelding and I'm positive he needs to be done. I gave him a bath about a week ago and went to take take of it and all I did was put my hand near his sheath and he lifted his leg. There's a chick around here that has a little buisness called Crud Busters. It's going to be the best $40 I've ever spent.
I have totally thought of starting up a little side business for shealth cleaning! haha $40 for 10 minutes of work sounds pretty good to me!! |
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Location: Up and over to the right | I do baby oil and a small dab of ivory soap for just the outside layers. The ivory cuts the grease and baby oil keeps things moisturized. I used to charge $50 at my barn and I made some nice cash during the summer. One of our groom would gag and puke at the smell and thought of sheath time (pshhh boys). |
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Location: Kansas | This is why I own mares.......I dont have to touch the horse dong! LOL |
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Location: Southern OK aka God's Country | Sandok - 2014-01-06 4:08 PM
Yes, on this site. Between the tits, it gets crusty and causes them to itch in the summer is what someone said.
This is true--they get some major caked crud going on in between them, especially way up in there. This summer I pulled big flakes of nastiness and crud from my mare. I cleaned it out just like a sheath on a gelding. My mare is maiden, so I don't know if it would be worse or better on a mare that had babies. . . I would guess worse but not sure. |
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| Stallions don't have this issue! Yay! |
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