Weird Question About Gelding

Postby **Roguelet** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:41 pm

Had the vet out today and one of the tasks on the agenda was to geld a colt. We got to talking about the way that some people throw the testicles on the barn roof, and there's some type of saying about throwing them over the horse's head so they will run fast to get to them or something... we couldn't figure out what the exact saying was. Anyone know?

Disclaimer: We did not throw them on the roof or over his head... :lol:

Tucumcari · Postby **Tucumcari** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:59 pm

Yikes... never heard of it, but I have fed the testicles to the dogs... good luck... I doubt it...LOL

spex4me · Postby **spex4me** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:43 pm

throw 'em against a wall win 'em all!!! (snickering fanatically :lol:

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I don't have them but this topic makes me cringe a little in sympathy lol!!!

Postby **Roguelet** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:40 am

Tuc: That's actually what we did, but I wasn't going to be the one to say it first. :oops:

Denise · Postby **Denise** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:59 am

Our trainers told us about this practice, but the legend is they have to stick to the barn roof in order to bring good luck and racing speed.

Makes for an interesting tableau when you see all the, um, dried up testicles crisped to perfection by the sun. Uggh.

Postby **Roguelet** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:05 am

You know, this reminds me of my freshman year in college; Animal Production lab... we were castrating bulls, and the instructor yanked them out and threw them against the side of the stocks chute. They stuck. You could tell he loved to see the faces on the freshmen when he did that. :lol:

But, I digress...

adrienne · Postby **adrienne** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:30 am

Hahaha. I managed a stallion who was quite evil and he ended up having a scrotal hernia and had to have emergency surgery. Long story short, he ended up lighter 1 testicle after the surgery.

I really, really, really wanted to ask for it. It seemed like one of those things that would have just looked fantastic sitting on my desk in a jar.

Am I weird?

nferro9925 · Postby **nferro9925** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:37 am

Yeah but if anyone asked if you have balls adrienne, you can say
"Why, yes I do. Right there on my desk!"
And then watch their faces! :lol:

majxmom · Postby **majxmom** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:48 am

My track vet always asks if we want to throw them on the roof of the barn. I figure, why not? We need every bit of luck in this business.

I used to have a next door neighbor who delighted in cooking up the "prairie oysters" of whatever he gelded (horse, cow, dog). I'm pretty sure he enjoyed the "ewwwwww!!!" that everyone said more than the actual delicacy.

adrienne · Postby **adrienne** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:26 am

nferro9925 wrote:Yeah but if anyone asked if you have balls adrienne, you can say
"Why, yes I do. Right there on my desk!"
And then watch their faces!

Haha, I told the vet that *that* was probably the one with all the stakes winners in it.

Thus I could have labeled the jar "XXXX's Stakes Winners"

Ahh, missed opportunities.

Laurierace · Postby **Laurierace** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:31 pm

I was always told that you throw them on the roof and by the time the birds finished eating them, the horse should be healed. I remember my then 8 year old daughter going to school and telling her teacher that she threw the testicles on the roof. The teacher was apparently horrified when she told that story, I on the other hand was doubly proud. Not only did she manage to hurl them both up on the roof without splatting them on the side of the barn, but she used proper terminology!

griff · Postby **griff** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:43 pm

nferro9925

When my first wife completed her surgery residency she was awarded a pair of high heel tennis shoes and a pair of brass balls.. In her acceptence speech she told the chief of surgery that while she chose to keep then concealed , her balls were bigger than his.

In retrospect I have no doubt they were

griff