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Mason has a new purpose, a new career, a new owner, and a new home…….

Hopefully everything will work out and just maybe he will become Sebastian’s next Hunt horse……..

Mason needs to learn the basics of being ridden at speeds less than a flat-out gallop and not just in circles.

The down side for Mason was…….he had to be gelded…….

~~~~~~~Mason was NOT consulted~~~~~~~

Normally stud colts are castrated sometime after their testicles drop.

That time-frame can vary from horse to horse.

With the babies who have been born here, we try to wait as long as possible before gelding them…….

…..that is because Draft horses and Draft/Crosses are slow growers from a skeletal standpoint…….

…..and we want to give them ample time to reach a good bone-frame and structure with all of their hormones in place prior to castration…

Mason was a much older boy for gelding…….

Stevie Wonder was enlisted for the task…….

Like I said,  Mason’s vote wasn’t elicited or counted…….

After so many years of medical procedures and surgeries on the farm…….there are some things you never get used to…….I always get sympathy labor pains for the various girls giving birth here…….and I have a “sort-of” empathetic-pain for the boys being castrated.

Because Mason was older, he had more scrotal and testicular vascularization…..

…..that needed to be seriously addressed and dealt with.

A tetanus booster was a must.

But Mason sailed through the surgery without any complications.

He’s recuperating just fine now down in Sarasota.

~~~As a child, I remember my responsibilities with the various geldings I was privy to…….

…..my subsequent job was to re-pack the scrotum and hose the general area to keep the swelling in check.

Decades upon decades ago in rural Ohio…….Pine Tar was the staple used for everything…….

…..I was instructed to slather the stuff everywhere…….to keep the bugs as bay and to augment the healing process (although I have NO idea how Pine Tar helped with that one bit).

So it wasn’t a big stretch that after Mason’s castration, I offered up my dusty can of Pine Tar (which I still have on a dark, upper shelf in the garage)…….

Stevie Wonder looked at me like I was (predictably) crazy, while Sebastian politely declined………….

Pine Tar and me………………………I guess we are both outmoded dinosaurs…

…….sigh…….