kevin27
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone at miniaturehorsetalk,
If anyone lives on Long Island, I'd really like to touch base with you.
We have had Katz and Winston about a year.
Katz is the 5 yr old pregnant mare, and a one year old intact male, is Winston
They're not related, but she pretty much showed him how to be a horse and they bonded over the last year
It's time to get Winston gelded, but we were waiting for both of the testes to drop.
He's becoming more difficult to handle as the months have gone by, and they both get upset when we separate them. There is fence between them now. It' seems to work better some days not so good other days. ( mostly emotionally for the little guy)
Our regular vet referred us to a specialty equine clinic. We'd waited the month he suggested, and then two more weeks.
It appears to be only one descended testicle.
They gave us two ranges on surgical prices. One for a simple procedure, and
one using laproscopy and more complex conditions. We're fortunate that this hosptial clinic is close by.
I understand the logic, that if it's simple and straightforward once he's on his back and under anesthesia, sometimes the testicle is just right there, in and out that's fine.
But if they need to really search for it, and do a lot more invasive work, that it's far better to be in an actual hospital setting, and get it done the first time.
I guess the our first concern is how long it will take to burn off the testosterone,
and he's gone from cautiously lipping with the occasional seeming accidental bite,
to deliberately biting, hard, and sneaky. I was bent down giving some water to some new turkey poults, and he came behind and bit the back of my closest bicep pretty good.
I guess it's obvious we're new horse owners, but we did have some one on one with a friend of the family, who works with teaching humans about riding horses, for a living.
a long term goal would be to work on learning to drive or some kind of horse equivalent agility type of activity
thanks
Kevin
these photos are from about 2 weeks back.
If anyone lives on Long Island, I'd really like to touch base with you.
We have had Katz and Winston about a year.
Katz is the 5 yr old pregnant mare, and a one year old intact male, is Winston
They're not related, but she pretty much showed him how to be a horse and they bonded over the last year
It's time to get Winston gelded, but we were waiting for both of the testes to drop.
He's becoming more difficult to handle as the months have gone by, and they both get upset when we separate them. There is fence between them now. It' seems to work better some days not so good other days. ( mostly emotionally for the little guy)
Our regular vet referred us to a specialty equine clinic. We'd waited the month he suggested, and then two more weeks.
It appears to be only one descended testicle.
They gave us two ranges on surgical prices. One for a simple procedure, and
one using laproscopy and more complex conditions. We're fortunate that this hosptial clinic is close by.
I understand the logic, that if it's simple and straightforward once he's on his back and under anesthesia, sometimes the testicle is just right there, in and out that's fine.
But if they need to really search for it, and do a lot more invasive work, that it's far better to be in an actual hospital setting, and get it done the first time.
I guess the our first concern is how long it will take to burn off the testosterone,
and he's gone from cautiously lipping with the occasional seeming accidental bite,
to deliberately biting, hard, and sneaky. I was bent down giving some water to some new turkey poults, and he came behind and bit the back of my closest bicep pretty good.
I guess it's obvious we're new horse owners, but we did have some one on one with a friend of the family, who works with teaching humans about riding horses, for a living.
a long term goal would be to work on learning to drive or some kind of horse equivalent agility type of activity
thanks
Kevin
these photos are from about 2 weeks back.
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