08/11/2025
Sheath Cleaning should be down every-time you bathe your horses! IMO!!
Sorry to anyone this may offend, but it does need to be said.
I have seen a few comments recently on our posts saying ‘I have had horses my whole life, and I’ve never heard of this silly nonsense’ or ‘ I never checked any of my horses and they were fine, beans are a made up fad’ or ‘I have had horses for 60 years and my husband trained them and we never checked for them so we don’t believe beans are real’ or ‘ I’ve only seen this popping up in the past 3/4 years, we didn’t do this in my day’.
Learning about horses is a lifelong journey. Some of us found horses later in life and some of us come from generations of equestrians. I come from the latter, my families relationship with horses goes back centuries, breeding, transport, competing etc and when I started out on this path a decade ago my family of equestrians thought I was nuts. They had never heard of a bean. They of course all understand now.
Just because I have a long history with horses however, does not mean I can lecture someone who may have only had horses for 5 years, on hoof care or building condition on the top line or bits or saddles. If they had a horse with complex issues that my horses have never had, then the ‘less experienced’ horse owner would know far more than me about the complex matter that none of my horses have ever had.
We know what we know from the experience we gain with the horses we have and every horse is different.
We have worked with thousands upon thousands of horses here at BESC and still we find our selves learning new snippets of information about horses on a regular basis.
So to respond to those comments above, just because you have had horses your whole life, does not mean you know more than everyone else. Many, many people that get their horses checked, have also had horses their whole lives, the difference being, they are willing to learn.
If you never checked any of your horses, then how do you know they didn’t have beans? That issue your horse always suffered with may have been a bean…
This isn’t a new fad, you had just never heard of it.
Why do we care? well, we went to a client recently who almost didn’t go through with the appointment because she was made to feel silly for getting us out - the horse had a massive bean by the way and is undoubtedly feeling much better.
Long story short, our little business wouldn’t still be running 10 years later, if beans weren’t real.
