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Re: [RC] To geld or not to geld - Chris PausYup! I get them gelded as soon as there is something to geld! LOL.. Around here we call it "brain surgery"... The colts I've had done young, between 7 and 10 months of age, have rebounded so quickly! no complications. One even felt good enough to jump a fence two days later, LOL... chris --- Maggie Mieske <mmieske@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Last fall we gelded a 6 year old stallion and a 9 month old colt. (We went together with a neighbor who had some 2 year olds done and we split the farm call, etc.). The older guy had an awful time and took a long time to heal which I expected but not as bad as it was and as much as we took care of keeping it clean and sprayed with disinfectant. The neighbor's 2 year olds took a lot longer to heal than I would have thought but I am not sure how diligent he was with aftercare. Our 9 month old youngster was bucking and playing the same evening as if nothing had even happened to him! I had never gelded one so young before but it was the best gelding I've ever experienced (at least as the human). :) I will never leave a colt I know I am absolutely not keeping as a stallion until they are a year or more. I was very pleased with how quickly this youngster healed...he had very little swelling that first day and none after we turned him out and he could run and play. We still sprayed the stuff the vet gave us on him. That was our experience anyway and is my humble opinion. Miles of smiles, Maggie Miles of smiles, Maggie http://arabianquest.com/samaha_arabians.htm "So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable." Christopher Reeve ===== "A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot Chris and Star BayRab Acres http://pages.prodigy.net/paus ============================================================ If you treat an Arab like a Thoroughbred, it will behave like a Quarter horse. ~ Libby Llop ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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