Ridecamp: RE: [RC] Hoof Mystery Hole

The hole is likely caused by an absence of laminae
in that area due to the tip of the coffin bones being
degenerated.  Your horse's coffin bones are likely
pointed downward and have worn the tip away from
excess pressure of the downward position.  Since the
laminar (connects the hoof wall with the coffin
bone......otherwise know as the whiteline) doesn't
have anything to hang on to there (because the notch
that is missing in the coffin bone), then it just
grows down in the whiteline as a hole.   We see this
frequently in client's horses. 

You can confirm this by taking lateral x-rays of the
hoof.  

Karen

>>Hey everyone, 
One of my horses has a wierd little hole at the toe
that never goes away.  I thought it was white line
disease but the farrier said not.  No matter how 
much is rasped away it is always there.  and I stuck a
nail up in it and it went about an inch!!  To my
knowledge he has not had an abscess and it is in 
both front feet. It usually cracks up about an inch ot
an inch and a half , but recently farrier rasped it
and put these little plates over it so it 
wouldn't crack anymore.  Well, that was fine until the
plates came off and it started all over again.  I have
been putting iodine up in the whole just this 
week to see if it will help but I'm stumped.  
My other horse doesn;t get them and they are both on a
trace mineral supplement and biotin...<<

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