Nope, my pony literally doesnt have one, 10 yrs old n we just found out.
Backstory:
He was born full term to a welsh proven stallion and my mare who was for simplicitys sake, a mutt. An amazing 14.2 chesnut jumper, easy going, great temperment mutt. She’s my profile pic.He came out the size of a springer spaniel, had to milk my mare the first 24 hrs, couldnt stand, couldnt nurse, had to be bottle fed. The next day took him and mare to the vets, mare drugged out of her mind and him wrapped in towels in the front seat. Started nursing when he got to the vets, mainly due to mare being drugged lol n standing still for once. Lived in a stall first 6 months bc his legs were so tiny, had to have straw bc shavings gave him eye ulcers. He had to have braces on his legs, still cannot be rode bc his back fetlock rotates inward, hoof grows dished and frogs have no sulcus, they’re one piece.
Fast forward, lives life in the field, gets shots, farrier, worming, ground manners, thats it. Gains n loses weight when I pulled him onto stall board and muzzled him. Brought him home this yr in October. Field till about 8pm, in till 6am, back out, stall spotless daily. Drylotted now that the weathers turned n the fields are wet.
Noticed him dribbling pee and that he never actually drops it out to pee, the few times ive done more than just rinse him out w a hose, ive had to go elbow deep to get to what I thought was his penis, and it was the size of maybe my finger.
He had some funky discharge n just grossness the other day. Hence vet visit today. Vet sedates, can’t find penis, goes deeper, pulls out sheath, or technically inner sheath, it had almost a membrane over it, still no penis.
Vet gives him some type of diueretic to make him pee while he is there to see if aannyything drops out, he pees, all over his sheath and it sprays out, hence the dribbling apparently. Still no penis. Vet goes in again, pulls inner sheath out, can barely get his finger in the opening, finds a walnut sized what must be his urethra, still no penis.
Asks me how long I’ve had him, was he gelded, did I physically see his testicles removed (yes, super small, fed to the barn dogs) and if he exhibits any mare like behavior, (no, total a hole gelding pony) and proceeds to lift his tail to make sure he doesn’t have any other tiny “slits” for lack of better terminology, under his anal opening. He doesn’t…
So all said and done, my pony never developed an actual penis, must have been part of his birth and dwarfism as we fondly called them, growing issues. Nothing skin wise grew or formed around or over his urethra, no skin, nothing to drop out or even protrude an inch!! Nothing to clean smegma off of, nothing to get a bean stuck in at all. Just a walnut sized urethra, and a sheath that he gets pee all over. No issues till now.
He’s getting urine scald in his sheath, so every other day or so monistat and desitin ointment for life pretty much to help keep it clean, or till further notice. If hes still having issues in a week or so, uniprim will be started and every few months he will get a uniprim regimen just to keep everything on the up n up, no pun intended…since he has nothing to drop down!!!
Seriously…howww does that even happen… only my pony…smdh.
Thats my ponys non penis’d life in a nutshell, which he doesn’t have one of those either!!!
