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| My daughter's horse may have a little white line. The farrier told her to strip down her stall, disinfect the stall and rebed it. The owner of the barn is having a cow about this. Having never dealt with this I thought I would ask what ya'll do for suspected white line disease. |
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | Just had this conversation, but I'm in Florida...some people if it's early and/or they suspect beginning, they treat with Durasole. Not sure on spelling, but iodine and formaldahyde and stripping the stall would just make sure it's clean all the way down and nothing to add to the situation. Other than that, vet advice I guess. |
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I just read the headlines
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| Thank you. I don't understand why the barn manager doesn't want her to strip the stall and disinfect it, especially when she told my daughter they have several cases a yea. I was wondering if that was overkill. She is soaking the mare's hoof in a bleach solution but I will tell her about durasole and your iodine/formaldehyde mixture. |
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Location: OH-IO | I was told to clean out the hoof well and treat with copper sulfate and obviously keep the stall clean. Also a ferrier recommended the supplement "NU IMAGE" it is a hoof and coat sup but it seems to help! |
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| I don't know why the barn owner would be upset about the stall being stripped and disinfected. My trainer strips her stalls regularly. You could eat in hers. My horses never have a problem with thrush or white line or anything. The Marshall City arena strips all stalls after every weekend barrel race. That is just standard procedure. It should be at any facility where horses are kept installs. I have a horse that has that and the vet told me that the only way to control it was to have the horse trimmed every four weeks. My vet said there was no cure but trimming would control it. |
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| Was in the same situation a couple years ago, horses got turned out for about 6 hours from around 9am to 3pm and then stalled around 17 hours till the next morning. the barn owners would put 1/8th of a wheel barrow amount of shavings in each stall and stalls are cleaned once a day. In the morning stalls are completely wet with feces soaking in standing puddles of urine... It took little to figure why my horse got white line. Our vet worked very close with a shoer and the actually cut out a pretty large section of hoof wall to expose and clean out the infection and put bar shoes on him. Oxygen is the easiest way to kill off the bacteria that thrives in that condition. It took 9 months to a good year for the hoof wall to grow completely out. And it was pretty visibly shocking to see the hoof without a large section of hoof wall. But in addition to that, I used this stuff called 'Jim Ridkins' that a friend of ours from Arizona advised us to use. I had to order it online but it's really really good stuff! Definitely recommend it! |
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Location: Montana | White Lightning, Thrush Buster and Hoof Freeze have all worked for me but have seen the best results with WL and vinegar. |
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| I have used Cleantrack. It's awesome and works really fast. |
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Location: Wherever They Send Me | I moved my horses a few months ago from Alaska (no humidity) to Louisiana (I could swim outside, there is so much humidity, haha). My horses were dealing with thrush/whiteline and my older gelding had it worst of all. I clean his feet out daily with a brush and scrape out the infected areas with a shoe nail (to get Oxygen in there), then I spray the crap out of it with a bleach/water solution. After a few weeks, Im no longer cleaning out gross stuff Im just cleaning out dirt.
I heard good things about the other products mentioned, but Im on a budget. Good luck! |
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