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RE: [RC] Caslick's: A must with us! - heidi

If she is conformationally a "prime candidate" as you say, then it is indeed indicated.  My beef is with doing the procedure as a knee-jerk reaction just because the poor horse is female. 
 
Heidi



I have an older brood mare (not breeding ever again) who I still trail
ride with once in a while.  TWH 18 year old.  Prime candidate for having
the bad confirmation to warrant Caslicks.
I've thought I was doing her an injustice by NOT doing Caslicks on her
because I had been told she probably gets recurring infections since the
manure undoubtedly is running down etc etc.

Were they telling me correctly?  I don't ever see her behave or
physically seem different but how different would she behave even if she
had a fever/infection?  Never off her food or sluggish.

>
>  
> With regard to routinely doing Casslicks repairs in older broodmares,
> certainly there are times when it is indicated--but one of the
> "causes" of a lack of a vulvar seal in mares is having had a previous
> Casslicks repair, hence once you start, you pretty much have to
> continue.  Still seems silly to me to do unnecessary surgeries, and
> the resulting permanent alteration of the vulvar lips reminds me of
> the wise advice of one of my veterinary surgical professors, who told
> us that as we stand poised with a scalpel, we should ALWAYS remember
> that the instant we touch that scalpel to skin, the animal is
> permanently altered.



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