FIELD SURGERY

Field Surgery

Field Surgery

For your convenience All Points Equine offers the best Field Surgery options for our clients.

 

Field surgery options include:

  • Castrations
  • Laceration Repair
  • Enucleations
  • Disbudding/Dehorning Procedures
Castration – Field Surgery :The testicles are the organs responsible for producing testosterone (the main hormone that creates stallion-like physical features and behavior). Removal of both testicles usually rids the horse of unwanted stallion-like behavior, including screaming at and fighting with other horses, attempting to mount other horses, erection, masturbation, and potentially aggressive behavior toward humans. However, when castration is performed at a late age and/or after the horse has been used to breed mares, is not always successful in abolishing learned stallion-like behavior. Even though the horse will not be able to reproduce, the behavior of mounting mares in the pasture in an attempt to breed and aggressive behavior with other horses might not cease.  
Laceration Repair – Field Surgery: begins with a careful assessment of the wound to determine how deep it is and what, if any, underlying anatomical structures are affected. Your horse will receive medication for pain and may require sedation to fully evaluate the wound. The wound will be carefully cleaned and, if possible, closed with sutures. Most likely your horse will need to be on antibiotics until the wound is healed.
Enucleation transpalpebral or subconjunctival, is the surgical removal of the globe, conjunctiva, and nictating membrane.
Disbudding: This procedure involves the removal or ablation of the corium, the horn-producing tissue adjacent to the skin of a horned ruminant.
Dehorning: is a much more drastic procedure where the existing horn is removed.