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Colt Castration Preparation and Care Information

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Colt Castration

Standing colt castration is a surgical procedure designed to remove both testicles in a male horse in order to prevent unwanted foals and stallion like behaviour.

How to prepare for standing castration?

  • The stable should be bedded with rubber matting or straw (laid the day before to reduce dust).
  • A responsible handler is needed to hold the head.
  • The owner or representative (over 18 years) should be present to identify the colt.
  • The horse should be fully vaccinated against Tetanus.
  • Ensure that there is appropriate turn out areas for the gelding postoperatively.
  • There should be no turn out with mares for at least 2 weeks’ following castration.

Post Operative Care

  • All food should be withheld for at least 1 hour.
  • Stable rest for 3 hours post operatively – preferably 24 hours’.
  • Blood may drip from the scrotal wounds for up to 24 hours’ post operatively. You should be able to count the drips. If a greater flow presents, please contact GEM EQUINE for advice.
  • A blood clot may present within the scrotal wounds or fall out from them.
  • Turn out MUST be achieved.
  • The horse/pony/donkey must exercise in order to promote drainage from the scrotal wounds and therefore minimise swelling and risk of infection.

Post Operative Complications

Swelling

  • All castrations will be swollen for at least 5-7 days.
  • Turn out and exercise MUST be achieved to minimise swelling. If the skin wounds heal rapidly this may encourage pocketing of fluid behind them. This is common at about 10- 14 days.

Infection

  • This may occur secondary to pocketing of fluid, fly interference and or contamination by mud or bedding.

Bleeding

  • Occasionally profuse bleeding may present. We attempt to minimise this risk by tying off all major blood vessels prior to cutting and crushing. We take a belt and braces approach to haemorrhage prevention unlike many who merely cut and crush these tissues.
Omental fat hanging from the wound
  • This is NOT an emergency. The horse appears comfortable and untroubled by a red string hanging from the surgical site. The omental fat will be simply removed.
Eventration – herniation of intestines through the inguinal canal
  • Testicles descent from a site just behind the kidneys, through the muscle of the abdominal wall (inguinal canal) and into the scrotum. This channel through the abdominal wall persists throughout life and becomes larger the older the horse becomes. On rare occasion intestines pass through the inguinal canal and this presents as an EMERGENCY.

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