07/23/2025
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🫘 MARE BEANS 🫘
Mares do get beans but they are not where many think they are…
Now I wanted to keep this image as facebook friendly as possible and of course keep this mares dignity intact, so it’s cropped but we will do our best to make it make sense!
I see a lot of conversation in Facebook comments about mares getting muck and flaky build up around their teats, which of course they do, and we clean the teats as part of our mare hygiene service.
BUT, mare beans are not anywhere near the teats, in fact they are in a little sack below the vulva, called the clitoral fossa.
The biggest we have come across is maybe the size of a kidney bean, so not as dramatic as the size we remove from some geldings but they can still cause issue and we have personally seen some big behavioural differences in mares when these beans are removed.
You can see from this image here, just how small the pocket is, but doesn’t that bean look irritating 🫣
I would like to clarify that mares are mares and as an owner of four ‘bean-less’ mares, my mares are still mareish 😂
