Re: [RC] Question - hoof crack to hairline? - DVeritas
In a message dated 2/28/2005 9:29:37 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, Naomi
Preston wrote:
Does
anyone have any experience with a horse with a crack in the hoof going all the
way up to the hairline? (front hoof) Will it eventually grow out? Can it
cause soundness problems?
Hi Naomi,
Fifteen years ago I had my hundred mile horse with a crack that went up
from the toe to the coronary band.
I had Richard Klemish (then at CSU) put some screws on either side of the
crack and then lace it tightly with cable (like the kind on EZ boots) by
looping the cable around each screw (looked like a laced shoe when we got
done).
He then put an aerospace epoxy over the whole thing. We then went
about doing fifty's and hundreds.
Eventually, we fixed the crack, redoing the whole procedure about every
five or six weeks.
As far as soundness, once the crack got up to the coronary, it did become
an issue...an issue, that is, until we did the "lacing" thing.
I believe in today's "modern" horse world, their are hoof treatments which
would certainly help you in fixing the problem.
