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RE: [RC] white line - Jim HollandActually, white line disease in horses is fairly common. It's also known by other names such as "seedy toe". I have seen nothing that associates laminitis with white line disease except secondarily. Perhaps you are referring to some other malady. It is more common to see it as a local problem which can be caused by a variety of things. Like "rain rot", sometimes it appears for no obvious reason in some horses. Sunny is very prone to periodically having bouts with this in his front feet, and he gets the best of care. Here's a pretty good article. http://www.horses-and-horse-information.com/articles/0197hoof.shtml Searching "White Line Horses" will get you a lot of stuff. I am also a farrier. Debriding is the only sure way to "fix" the problem once it is active in the hoof wall. Air kills the organism, which is not really a fungus, not really a bacteria, but a "symbiotic" relationship between several types. A chemical analysis of the "powdery" residue may indicate different organisms in different horses, which is why it's difficult to destroy medicinally. Painting the sole and hoof wall with merthiolate at each shoeing will act as a preventative. Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dolores Arste Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:18 PM To: ridecamp Subject: FW: [RC] white line Kathy, If you can send photos of the foot in question? to Kim, shed like to see head on shot, lateral and sole shots. WLD is actually quite rare and in most cases I find it comes from either laminitis or flaring (flaring causes tearing of the laminae). You can see an extreme example of a horse I've been working on by going to www.clickandtrim.com/murray.htm. This horse was diagnosed with WLD about 2 years ago and shoes were the recommended cure. By the time I saw the horse he had 20 degrees of rotation in his RF and 2 degrees in his LF. I pulled the shoes and started bringing his toes way back. As of today, the RF is almost completely healed with no more seperation of Coffin Bone and Hoofwall. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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