How long after gelding can you ride

Aged mares may need to be bred over more estrous cycles, on average, to establish a pregnancy than younger mares.

Perhaps the ideal age to breed a mare for the first time is when she is 3 to foal at 4, or 4 to foal at 5. However, there are many factors that can change that ideal age. Put your horse out in a paddock or round pen 12 to 24 hours after surgery to encourage him to move. Despite keeping the surgical wound open for drainage and encouraging movement, a gelding will still swell post-operatively. This swelling is seen at the scrotum.

Sometimes, intercellular fluid accumulates down the legs. This is called edema. Moderate swelling is expected and acceptable. This means, in the scrotal area, expect to see nothing more than about orange-sized.

Anything larger than that and a call to your vet is warranted. Frequently, excessive swelling just means the incision has healed too fast, preventing drainage. Swelling will decrease after that. This surgery is usually performed one of two ways: standing under local, with sedation or under general anesthesia with the animal on its side lateral recumbancy. Regardless of the position of the horse, the procedure is basically the same with a few minor technique differences from surgeon to surgeon.

The scrotum will be incised cut open over each testicle, or the botton of the scrotum can be removed completely for inreased drainaged. The testicles are completely removed and incisions are left open to drain. Post-operative bleeding is usually minimal. Recovery time varies between idividuals with most animals being completely healed within weeks.

In normal colts, the testicles have descended into the scrotum by the time of birth, but in some colts one or both testicles does not completely descend into the scrotum and remains within the abdominal cavity or inguinal canal. Some horses can take up to two years for both testicles to descend into the scrotum where they can be removed routinely. Testicles that remain in the abdominal cavity, without descending into the scrotum, require a more complicated surgery to remove.

These animals can be referred to a surgical facility for a more invasive abdominal surgery to remove the testicles. Before the surgery, the colt should be halter broke and accustomed to handling and bathing so they can be easily managed during and after surgery. Tetanus immunization is necessary before and at the time of surgery. Although castration is a common surgical procedure and considered elective, owners need to be aware of certain complications that can occur during or after surgery.

It is nearly impossible to predict if postoperative complications will occur. Your veterinarian should assess the animal to prior to surgery to limit any surprises including palpation of the scrotum in order to feel for any signs of current hernias.

If a scrotal hernia is palpable, surgery should not be performed in the field. Excessive bleeding can occur after castration of a horse with a clotting abnormality, abnormally large testicular blood vessels, and in certain breeds or individuals that have higher than average blood pressure like donkeys and mules.

The testicular blood vessels enlarge as a stallion ages. Thus, the younger the horse is when it is castrated, the less potential for postoperative bleeding. If a horse is over 2 years of age at the time of castration, control of bleeding is a greater concern and makes the surgery more time consuming.

In some horses, the opening in the abdominal wall inguinal canal through which the testicles descend into the scrotum is abnormally large or flexible. In theses horses, the intestines and other abdominal tissue omentum can pass through the inguinal opening herniate. Though inguinal hernias are very uncommon, they are a serious complication and require immediate transport to a surgical facility for correction. After the testicles are removed, the scrotal incision is not sutured and is allowed to heal from the inside out.

If the incision closes prematurely, infection can be sealed inside. The aftercare instructions outlined below should help prevent infection. Hotter times of the year when flying insects are at their peak increase risks of infection and aftercare becomes critical to prevent serious infection. Oh yes, it can happen! A recently castrated gelding can still get a mare in foal for some time after castration because of sperm remaining in the conducting system.

Gingernags Well-Known Member 30 May Joined 2 August Messages 5, Location She's behind you How many weeks should you wait before letting a recently cut colt go out with mares? I know of one that was cut about 6 weeks ago and is out with mares now, and is happily covering them?!

Have never needed to ask the question as I've never had geldings - but just curious!! Amazona Well-Known Member 30 May Joined 8 February Messages Location Midlands.

It is quite possible, some say it would work but only on the first covering or that the gelding was not completed correctly. I have run a stud for years and would not have turned a colt out that still had the urge Joined 29 March Messages 2, He would be fertile while he still had any reserves of sperm tucked away in any tubes or pipes.

That said whatever resrves he might have would only live so long so once dead he would be infertile. Joined 14 November Messages 10, At the stud I used to work at the vet said two weeks and you should be fine to mix with mares. Just because they look as though they are doing the business doesn't mean anything is happening.

However, none, as far as I am aware after six weeks. I actually would have thought six weeks as that is the regeneration period for sperm.