Although castrations are routine procedures for many equine practitioners, the risk for complications remains. And while most complications are generally mild, some have life-threatening implications.

Researchers and veterinarians constantly seek safer ways to perform common surgical procedures, and the castration of stallions is no exception. In the 1990s, laparoscopic castration, which cuts off ...

She also noted the gelding procedure has a mortality rate of 5 percent. Older stallions are particularly at risk, as shown this summer when a popular 25-year-old Utah stud died after castration. Brian ...

A onetime free-roaming Utah stallion, whose picture sparked an Internet campaign demanding his release, died last week of a heart attack at a BLM holding corral in Delta as a veterinarian was gelding ...

His hind end and tail were caked with blood and oozing from a gelding procedure gone wrong, leaving a gaping wound too infected to close. He winced every time he moved and ducked away when anyone ...