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Re: [RC] white line disease - jaynesHi - newbie! :) my farrier cringes everytime someone reccomends bleach solution as a cure- he says it dries out the hoof terribly and you can cause more damage than good. The hooflex is definatly the way to go- i've heard of that working also. I just had to speak up when i heard "bleach!" jen & sugar Quoting Jim Holland <lanconn@xxxxxxx>: Ahem......Certainly good hoof care is part of prevention....but it's a LOT more complex than that. No matter HOW good your hoof care, your horse can have this problem. His living environment is also contributory. Barefoot horses also have White Line.....in about the same numbers as shod horses.....and I have seen NO studies that indicate it is caused by "damaged laminae". Look here: http://www.horses-and-horse-information.com/articles/0197hoof.shtml and here: http://www.lesspub.com/cgi-bin/site.pl? 433&cgBoard_boardID=1&cgThread_threadID=16430&cgTopic_topicID=96 for help and suggestions. I fought this problem on Sunny for years for several years. I have an EXCELLLENT farrier with many years experience and I am "short course" farrier trained. Some horses seem to be more susceptible than others. EVERYTHING grows on Sunny. He ALWAYS had a little hole cut out in one or the other of his front feet at EVERY shoeing. Removing his shoes in front had no impact on the problem, but it does make easier to treat. You can have several horses in the same pasture and some will have White Line and some won't....some with shoes, some without. In it's initial stages, you will see it in the very front of the hoof and it's sometimes called "Seedy Toe". First, you MUST resection the infected area back to clean hoof wall......Ehite Line dies on contact with air. If you don't, it will simply continue to grow up into the hoof. It can cause laminitis and coffin bone rotation in extreme cases. White Line is not a fungus like Thrush, but appears to be a symbiotic relationship between several types of bacteria. Treatment that works well on one horse may not work as well on another. Sunny has been White Line free for over a year now. After trying every remedy known for this, we started using Merthiolate and "Hooflex Thrush Remedy". (http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_product_group.html?cguid=30E08168-7B6A-11D5- A192-00B0D0204AE5) Hooflex is slightly oily, which makes it cling to the hoof better than other stuff I tried. At each shoeing, just before the shoe was put on, we coated the clean, trimmed hoof wall (and any resection area) with Merthiolate. I then cleaned his feet daily, using my air compressor to blow out anything between the shoe and hoof. Using a hypodermic needle, I injected Hooflex as far up between the shoe and the foot as I could reach and coated the resection area and the outer hoof wall from the nail holes down. Use a horseshoe nail to pick around in the resection area to remove any debris accumulation. KEEP IT OPEN! I still treat with Merthiolate at each shoeing and with Hooflex a couple of times a week.....no White Line for over a year. STAY ON THIS STUFF! It will destroy his feet if you don't do something about it. Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic ----- Original Message ----- From: Paddi To: Susan_Bothern Cc: ridecamp Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [RC] white line disease This is from another list that was discussing the same topic. Paddi White line is not a disease it is a symptom of a dysfunction hoof. The only way to correct it is to restore the hoof to a natural shape and function. ============================================================ I can tell you after sleeping in a tent, then in my truck, then in the back of a trailer, then in a gneck trailer w/no LQ, and now in the new-to-me LQ one, you don't sleep any better the night before in nicer digs - you're just more comfortable while you're lying there obsessing :) ~ Tina Hicks ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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