RE: White Line

["Snodgrass, Bonnie" <snodgrab@ncr.disa.mil>]

STRONGLY recommend using something on the white line disease that has been
formulated specificly to treat it. I have had quite a lot of experience with
that $(##(()_$% crud in Hawaii (very common problem over there) and highly
recommend the SBS products for treatment of WLD or at least Merthiolate
(difficult to locate anymore). A local friend here also eliminated a chronic
case of WLD by treating the foot with strong bleach soaks (only the lower
part of the hoof!) a couple times a week. He used a shallow feed tub with an
inch of strong solution in the tub. He coated the horses heels and hairline
with vaseline for protection then stood his Saddlebred in the tub for 5-10
min. Cleared up a case that had been going on for over a year and had
traveled a couple of inches up one toe. He didn't pull the shoes. Haven't
personally had to go shoeless with horse. 

Originally I used Merthiolate to treat WLD. It was found in lab tests to
effectively work on WLD and it will actually move upward into the white line
(just as the WLD does) so it goes into the foot rather than sitting on the
surface only. Iodine, when painted on the white line just crystalizes at the
surface and just seals over the WLD allowing it to continue to spread and
grow underneath. I believe that the SBS products do have Merthiolate in
them.Merthiolate seems to have been taken off the public shelves now. SBS
has a gel product that can be put on the white line area after the farrier
has cleaned out the affected, crumbly tissue then the shoes are replaced.  I
daily  use an old dental pick to clean out the debris that wedges under the
inner edge of the shoes before squirting in the liquid SBS. Daily at first
then a couple times a week. Your farrier is correct to remove the diseased
areas. Keeping the feet dry also really helps. That can be tough to do of
course.  The TB I had in Hawaii was put on a good hoof supplement by the way
and his hoof growth accelerated significantly. He grew a healthy and
stronger foot downward in about 8-9 months, faster than his old growth had
been. The new growth was disease free and held nails better than the old
hoof had.  Hope I gave you some ideas to think about.

Bonnie Snodgrass
Southern Maryland

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	April Lee [SMTP:adlee@bigfoot.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 15, 1999 1:44 PM
> To:	ridecamp
> Cc:	adlee@bigfoot.com
> Subject:	RC:  White Line Sidelines Barebacking Team....Story at 11
> 
> Well, so much for my well-thought out shoeing schedule!!  I had an
> appointment with Jason, my farrier, today.  Last time he was out, he cut a
> chunk of Apache's hoof wall out of the front (got a couple of comments on
> it
> at the Longstreet ride) to dig out White Line disease.  I saw Apache's
> previous owner last week and she finally  mentioned that, oh, yeah,
> Apache's
> prone to white line, especially on the RF.  Well, THANK YOU.  That would
> have been SO nice to know BEFORE I bought him!  Not that I wouldn't have
> bought him, but I could have kept a good eye out and kept up preventative
> treatments.  Course, I was too ignorant at the time to ask, so it's partly
> my fault for being ignorant, but still...Humph.
> 
> Well, this time the white line is pretty bad.  Better on the front where
> Jason cut it out (I've been treating it with ThrushBuster every 2 or 3
> days), but under the shoes?  Jason wasn't at all pleased and he hesitantly
> advised me to pull his shoes.  Hesitantly because he knows that I can't
> ride
> any of my training trails barefoot.  Too many rocks to chip up his hooves
> and take their own toll on his hoof health.  I assured Jason that I didn't
> care about that, to pull his shoes and leave them off if that was what was
> best.
> 
> So, my boy is running barefoot for two weeks.  I'm under orders to
> continue
> the ThrushBuster, but on all four feet and to outline his hoof with it.
> Jason also advised me to start feeding Source again to help promote growth
> and perhaps we can 'grow the white line out.' And no asphalt, no rocks.
> Sigh.  My planned Pigeon Mtn. training ride is out this weekend.
> 
> We're stuck in the pasture or the fields right next to the pasture.  Not
> nearly enough space for a horse training for endurance!  Oh, well.  I've
> got
> big plans for the next two weeks.  4-hour training sessions and play
> sessions.  Ground work, lunging, trotting around in circles (how I HATE
> that), barrels (he loves barrels), trailer loading/unloading, and open
> field
> cantering.  Apache has issues about cantering in open fields.  He doesn't
> like it or he thinks he can get away with more.  He goes into bucking and
> twisting and that turning on a dime thing he does so well.  I also haven't
> had a chance to try the latest exercises in John Lyons' Perfect Horse
> Magazine, so I'll be out there with that.  We won't be idle, but it's
> different from what we've been doing.
> 
> We have an appointment in two weeks.  Jason will look at his feet and
> we'll
> decide then if we should put shoes back on him then or wait another week
> or
> two.  Jason promised that if I keep him in shape, we can slap shoes on him
> two days before Summer Breeze and yank them soon afterwards so I could
> still
> ride.  We'll see.  Anybody done Summer Breeze barefoot?
> 
> April & Apache (gee, my feet feel lighter today)
> Chattanooga, TN
> 
> 
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