British Equine Sheath Cleaning

08/10/2025

So many of you are tagging us or sending us this video..! we’ve been cackling at this one! - giving us Halloween inspo 🎃😂

08/10/2025

He’s only 5 but look what came out! 🐎

08/10/2025

This bean came from a pony that was new to his home, he was already an angel for the children so it was hard to tell if there were any signs that this bean was in there.

He was urinating normally, drinking normally, nice natured, well behaved under saddle - ticked all the general boxes.

He was an angel as the bean was removed and angel for the children to ride after.
The likelihood is though that given another year or so the horse would have started to struggle, either with pain or with this bean squashing his urethra and causing a knock on effect of issues.

We see it often, pony is fine one day and completely out of character the next, throwing buck and spins and just miserable in themselves. Cut too and we remove a giant bean (most of the time - remember this isn’t going to be the answer to every ponies issues).

What makes my eyes water the most is the pony’s p***s was the size of my thumb when retracted. I don’t know how he remained so stoic throughout!

07/10/2025

If you are NOT a vet - then please stop giving out medical advise in our comment sections.

What we talk about on this page is in reference to sheath cleaning and mare hygiene ONLY.

If we are talking about swollen sheaths, we are talking about them in context to sheath cleaning.

If we are talking about behavioural changes, we are talking about them in regards to the issues beans can cause.

Yes we talk about finding abnormalities in a horses sheath and how important an annual check can be to spot changes but we are also NOT vets - the client would then get referred to their vet for a diagnosis, it is not anyone else’s place to comment on the horses potential diagnosis.

I truly appreciate how most of you commenting advice are coming from a good place, but we now have an inbox full of people panicking because someone said the residue on their horses back legs was colic - I can’t tell you how many horses get residue on their back legs and believe me it is not colic 99% of the time.

Or the people worrying, because someone whose horse didn’t drop his p***s to wee died all of a sudden. So many horses don’t drop their p***s to urinate!!

You may not realise, but some people will hang on to your every word, so what might be a passing statement to you, is a diagnosis to someone else.

So please let’s leave all of that to the vets and keep this page for its intended use - to talk about and help educate in regards to sheath cleaning and bean removal.

07/10/2025

A very common myth 🐎

06/10/2025

This was encasing a little pony’s p***s - you can see that tiny hole in the middle, this was giving pony just enough space to urinate.

This is a real issue, especially with the smaller breeds and it’s so often made worse by the use of baby oil. We don’t know for sure if baby oil was used on this boy as he was new to the herd, but something tells me that baby oil was most probably squirted into the sheath.

Shetlands and ponies are more often than not written off and left in a field - why check the ones to old or small to ride right? But they still feel pain, just like you and I do and just because they aren’t being ridden does not mean they should not get checked.

Any longer and this lad would have had a real issue going to the loo - thank goodness for his fabulous mum booking us out to him 🐎

06/10/2025

The joys of gelding ownership 🫣

06/10/2025

Following on from our post about our favourite fly cream to deter those pesky flies and that fly strike that I know so many of you are nervous about - we are having a warmer October so if you see the flies do use your fly cream - I’ve coloured below where you can put the cream. Do avoid putting it inside the sheath or in areas that could pull it into the sheath.

Why don’t we recommend fly spray for the sheath - even though I know you aren’t spraying it directly into the sheath, the residue of the spray can make its way into the sheath - causing in imbalance in the sheath making it muckier. Also it just does not last the way cream do.

As always our favourite is summer fly cream by battles - ten years in this job and time and time again it’s a firm favourite!

06/10/2025

We remove big beans all the time - what’s important is the open mindedness and willingness to learn 🫶🏻

06/10/2025

Let’s all remember to be a little kinder to each other 🤍

I applaud how passionate so many of you are on the importance of equine hygiene but every day is a school day with horses.
We do not know everything, you do not know everything - gosh how boring that would be!!

So please, when we post some of the huge beans we remove, don’t make people for guilty for ‘letting it get that bad’ - they didn’t let it get that bad on purpose!

Not all horses display obvious symptoms and not all people are taught about beans and the issues they can cause.

Education is key but please don’t make people silly for being open minded enough to learn 🫶🏻

05/10/2025

Hi everyone Tim here, Alex just wanted me to let you all know that her dad has had his surgery - she has been at the hospital a lot as they need to keep an eye on some other potential problems but she will be aiming to get back to all messages tomorrow.

We really appreciate your patience it’s been a very stressful time for us all

Tim 🐎

Hi everyone - Alex’s 81 year old dad has had a bad accident and has had to be rushed to hospital this morning.
We are obviously having to take some time off but everyone that has had to be rescheduled should have received a message.
Alex will be sitting down with the diary and responding to messages once things have calmed down and once we know what is happening next in regards to his surgery.

Everyone has been so understanding, especially as some of you were cancelled on last minute and we really do appreciate it 🫶🏻

You will still see us post on the page as these are set up to post automatically but Alex will get back to all your messages as soon as she can.

It wasnt a riding accident but let’s all send positive vibes for fast healing so he can get back to his favourite past time - on the back of his polo ponies 🐎

05/10/2025

The dreaded fly strike and the best deterrent for it 🪰