How to Wash a Stallion's Sheath

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A stallion's sheath should be washed twice a year using water and mild soap to remove any smegma, dirt or debris. Use a hose to flush out the stallion's sheath with helpful advice in this video on caring for horses.

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Posted By savanna Langer
on January 24, 2010, 5:06 pm

Here's a question. Ive always owned mares, ive looked after gelding and stalions at my local stable and i know about sheath cleaning, but why is it important?

Posted By zfh zfjzhmk
on July 10, 2009, 1:00 am

Thanks for this informative video. It still amazes me that so many novice horse owners have never even thought about cleaning the sheath!

Posted By Rick Gore
on April 4, 2009, 2:19 pm

Sheath cleaning is for all male horses (geldings and stallions). I was using cold hose water and my horse was dropping all day during the filming of the many videos, but he did not drop during this, probably due to the cold water. The horse in this video is Buddy a 4 year old QH. I have attached a few links to good pages that explain this process so you can get more detailed information to help keep your horse healthy. The following links are to different pages about Sheath Cleaning.
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Hi I'm Rick Gore at the Travis Equestrian Center. Today we're going to talk about sheath cleaning. Gelding's sheath need to be cleaned some people say more I say twice annually is probably enough. Some people do it every quarter. Some people do it once a month. You don't want to clean it too much because it removes good bacteria that the horse needs. Basically, sheath cleaning is get, messing with the sheath and getting the horse comfortable to you being around his back legs. Again, if you've done your sacking out, if you've done a bunch of desensitizing with him, he's not going to have a problem with you reaching up there grabbing that, he's not going to have a problem with you squirting a hose on him. So to start the sheath cleaning process, basically I'm just going to get him wet, he knows about it, I'm going to touch him, he knows he feels me feeling him. After I get him wet, you can use, there's several different pre-made stuff, some people use ivory soap. I don't use anything, sometime I will just use a water and I'll just get my hand up in there and pick out pieces. Some people use gloves. You can see that I'm pulling off pieces of dirt, it's called smegma. It collects up there, the water makes it soft so it peels off pretty easy. Again this horse knows that I do this a lot, so he's not going to be worried about it. Some people like to use a sock, they'll put their hand in a sock and then get the sock wet and use the sock as a scrubbing to go ahead and reach up under there and just scrub around. If you use a cleaner, get a little soapy, it gets kind of smells mentholated, it's kind of cooling. Basically you're just going to get your hand up in there, you want to make sure and try to pull out any chunks of dirt, debris, any stuff that you see up in there. If you keep the water running in there, it helps flush it. You can actually stick the hose right up in there and it'll just fill up with water and then drain out. If you keep the water running there, as you pull out, the different parts of debris that you pull out of there, you can just rinse it away. Doing this twice a year is usually good enough. Again, you don't want to be reaching back here right away without making sure that the horse knows and respects you enough not to kick you, not to be afraid, not to be shocked. It's not the first time that you've ever reached up there and grabbed that. You should be rubbing and desensitizing him, setting him up for this so you have a good experience and he knows to allow it and that you're not going to hurt him. And that's how you clean a sheath.

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It is never the horse's fault. Good natural horsemanship and a true understanding of horses will always get the best results with a horse.

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32	Corinne Ashton	Dobbin	USA	68.33	70.00	66.67	--	47.5	12	Withdrawn				Withdrawn
6	Mike Winter	Kingpin	CAN	65.67	66.00	67.67	--	50.3	17+	Eliminated				Eliminated
17	Susie Beale	Isabella II	GBR	56.67	58.00	59.67	--	62.8	42	Eliminated				Eliminated
21	Sandra Donnelly	Buenos Aires	CAN	61.33	59.33	62.33	--	58.5	34	Eliminated				Eliminated
26	Karl Slezak	Kachemak Bay	CAN	58.00	59.67	57.00	--	62.7	41	Eliminated				Eliminated
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35	Stanislas de Zuchowicz	Quirinal de la Bastide	FRA	60.33	71.00	68.00	--	50.3	17+	Eliminated				Eliminated
37	Barbara Crabo	Eveready	USA	62.00	60.33	62.00	--	57.8	33	Eliminated				Eliminated
58	Jennifer Wooten-Dafoe	The Good Witch	USA	65.00	65.33	65.00	--	52.3	21	Eliminated				Eliminated
67	Mike Winter	Wonderful Will	CAN	64.67	65.33	64.33	--	52.8	23+	Withdrawn				Withdrawn
68	Jose Ortelli Jr.	JOS Aquiles	ARG	Eliminated						Eliminated				Eliminated
42	Missy Ransehousen	Critical Decision	USA	64.33	66.33	67.67	--	50.8	20	--	0.4	51.2	13	Withdrawn
43	Bonner Carpenter (YR)	Acapulco Jazz	USA	63.67	62.67	60.33	--	56.7	30	--	11.6	68.3	23	Withdrawn
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51	Bettina Hoy	Ringwood Cockatoo	GER	82.00	84.67	75.67	--	28.8	1	--	9.6	38.4	2	--	--	38.4	2
63	Bruce O. Davidson Jr.	My Boy Bobby	USA	74.00	72.67	75.33	--	39.0	3	--	1.2	40.2	3	--	--	40.2	3
53	Nicolas Touzaint	Hildago de l'Ile	FRA	72.67	73.67	65.00	--	44.3	7	--	--	44.3	5	--	--	44.3	4
61	Lucy Wiegersma	Woodfalls Inigo Jones	GBR	70.33	72.00	71.33	--	43.2	5	--	1.2	44.4	6	--	--	44.4	5
66	William Fox-Pitt	Seacookie	GBR	71.00	70.33	71.67	--	43.5	6	--	2.4	45.9	8	--	--	45.9	6
64	Phillip Dutton	Connaught	USA	69.00	68.00	69.00	--	47.0	10	--	--	47.0	9	--	--	47.0	7
18	Oliver Townend	Carousel Quest	GBR	70.00	74.67	68.00	--	45.2	8	--	--	45.2	7	4	--	49.2	8
30	Tim Lips	Concrex Oncarlos	NED	73.33	72.00	70.67	--	42.0	4	--	--	42.0	4	8	--	50.0	9
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41	Nicola Wilson	Opposition Buzz	GBR	62.33	65.00	63.33	--	54.7	26	--	--	54.7	15	--	--	54.7	11
2	Phillip Dutton	Woodburn	USA	64.33	69.00	66.00	--	50.3	17+	--	--	50.3	12	4	1	55.3	12
48	Amy Tryon	Leyland	USA	69.33	65.67	67.33	--	48.8	15	--	--	48.8	11	8	--	56.8	13
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