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Discussion on Wet sheath
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Member:
mhorse
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Posted on Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 - 12:24 am:
Hi,
I have a horse that seems to need frequent cleaning of his sheath. There is always a build up and I have removed a couple of beans in the past 6 months. My question is... is it abnormal for the sheath to be quite moist? Most of the time it is dry and flaky but on 2 occasions now it was wet enough I cleaned it out with a dry towel. I don't have a lot of experience with cleaning sheaths so i don't know if this is normal or not and I haven't been able to find any information that covered this specifically. Thanks for any info!
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mogedy
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Posted on Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 - 3:15 pm:
I've had 3 (2 current) with sheaths that require cleaning at least monthly. Both are greasy. I have, over the years, mentioned it to vets but none have ever expressed "concern". I did have an older gelding who developed this problem later in life, from about the age of 18 on, he lived to 32. I was told to clean him with a syringe of Nolvasan scrub diluted 1:10. Then we would apply Panacur (now Animax). The current two horses just need to be cleaned frequently. The vets have said some horses just don't DrOp all the way when they urinate or manage to get bedding in their sheaths causing them to produce more. The older fellow would actually end up with a swollen sheath so that is why we did the Panacur and Nolvasen scrub periodically. Always worth bringing to your vets attention though.
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DrO
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Posted on Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 - 5:14 pm:
Hello mhorse,
Whether the moisture is abnormal depends on where the moisture is coming from. If the horse has been sweating heavily or running through creeks the moisture would not be abnormal. I have seen horses that have pretty oily sheaths with no easily discerned disease process going on while other are very dry. The key here is if there is not a good explanation for the wetness to have the sheath examined.
DrO
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Member:
rtrotter
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Posted on Sunday, Dec 1, 2013 - 11:01 am:
Hi Mary,
Are you sure the medication you were treating with wasn't Panalog( I think this is now called Animax). Panacur is a wormer, I don't think your horses sheath was being wormed
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mogedy
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Posted on Sunday, Dec 1, 2013 - 11:25 am:
Yes indeed you are right, I must have had too much turkey! Yes, Panalog, it's been off the market as that name for a long time.
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