By Lionel Dawson, Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Preputial injuries in bulls can cause considerable economic loss and significantly impact a producer’s breeding plans. Understanding the severity of a prepuce injury is critical to the outcome of the condition.
Bulls with pendulous sheaths and polled breeds have a high incidence of preputial injuries. A significant relationship appears to exist between a pendulous sheath and the tendency of habitual eversion of the prepuce. In polled breeds, this tendency may be due to incomplete development of the preputial muscles….
