So I overheard someone (the woman who said this really doesn't know much about horses. I've made a topic about her and her horse several months ago) say that horses udders need to be cleaned daily. In my 8+ years of horses, I've never heard of that. I never even heard of cleaning udders, except occasionally (just like geldings need their sheaths cleaned). I totally get why they'd need to be cleaned, but how often? I wouldn't think more than every couple months.

Daily cleaning is nuts.

Overcleaning can be just as harmful as not cleaning at all.

Never heard of cleaning a mares udder and I breed mini's lmao

Ask a vet.

Mares udders and Geldings/Stallions sheaths should never be cleaned more that 1 a month and even that is a bit much. Some horses are cleaner than others and only need to be cleaned 2 a year. Only clean sheaths/udders when dirty (starting to be, don't let it get terrible as it can lead to problems) as over cleaning is just as bad as a dirty sheath/udder.

Thanks, everyone. That is what I had thought, but I just wanted to check :)

When I learned about horse care in my teens, it was a final must to take a clean sponge and clean the whole area under the horse tail - especially when the horse had diarrhoe.

But in the meantime I don´t think it is a daily must-do

Most horses will kick your face in if you try to clean the udder, so be careful when you do it. I occasionally check my mares, very carefully, and most everything will rub off fine by hand. Mine tend to be pretty clean because they are out on grass pasture, so drylot and stalled horses I think would be a little dirtier since they don't have grass to go roll in. Mares who have foaled before will also have more of a place for dirt to get trapped due to the udder being bigger, so I would check them more often. I would also check for swelling, because a few years ago a mare, who had had one baby ten years prior, suddenly got mastitis. She was awful to strip the puss out and put the medication up there, but it was done. It sucked, and you definitely don't want to deal with that. It only took an hour of work and a $10 tube of medicine to fix, but I hated every second of it almost as much as the mare.

I only clean my mares udders when I wsh them before a show. I only clean my geldings ans stallions sheaths if their penises look dirty when they pop them out - you can lose a lot of points in presentation classes for dirty bits.