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Location: USA | One of my mares is EXTREMELY tender footed and I was wondering if anybody knew of something that would help toughen a horses hooves? I've heard of iodine but for horses with shoes on I've heard it would rust the nails. Can someone help?
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  Sweet Tea
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Location: Home of the World Famous "Silver Bullet" | venice turpintine with a little sole formula in it. paint the bottoms everyday. |
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Location: CentralTexas | Reducine |
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Location: Northwest | Love, love, love Durasole! Works great. I buy it at a local tack store but you can get it online too.
http://www.besthorsegear.com/collections/magic-cushion/products/dur... |
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Location: SE Louisiana | barn mom - 2014-02-06 8:02 PM
venice turpintine with a little sole formula in it. paint the bottoms everyday.
This... and while iodine might rust the nails, it will not rust them enough they will fail because of it in 6-8 weeks. |
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | Rickens Great stuff hardens feet fast |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| Rikken's, Su-Per Sole by Gateway, turpentine. |
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Location: Georgia | kerotex |
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| gagrl - 2014-02-07 8:09 AM kerotex
Ditto! My new horse had horrible feet. Starting using Keratex on the sole and the outside covering the nail holes. I also feed a good hoof supplement. He is growing great hoof now and keeping his shoes on even in the muddy, yucky weather. Farrier recommended the Keratex also. |
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 Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | I put gravel around all water troughs and in high travel areas. Worked better than any supplement or treatment I have tried and I don't have to worry about running out or affording it for the entire herd. The differenc in all my horses' feet is striking. Not a tendr footed one in the bunch now, where three needed shoes or boots for protection on anything other than grass or soft sand.
It is an old timer solution to tendr feet that works and is a lot less messy than many treatments. |
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Location: On a paint horse... | If you are wanting to strengthen the soles use turpentine, for the entire hoof make a mixture of pine tar, turpentine, and hooflex (not the liquid). Smear it on every day. I did this without gloves or a brush and my fingernails got so hard I couldnt even cut them with clippers! it works! |
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Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | ^^^^ I need to do that for my nails lol |
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I Need a Xanax!
Posts: 2774
| Morab76 - 2014-02-07 10:48 PM
I put gravel around all water troughs and in high travel areas. Worked better than any supplement or treatment I have tried and I don't have to worry about running out or affording it for the entire herd. The differenc in all my horses' feet is striking. Not a tendr footed one in the bunch now, where three needed shoes or boots for protection on anything other than grass or soft sand.
It is an old timer solution to tendr feet that works and is a lot less messy than many treatments.
I agree with this 100%! Keratex does work but its crazy expensive, something like $30 a bottle and if you have more than 1 or 2 horses that cost adds up fast and is time consuming and a pain to apply if its muddy. I have had the best luck spreading gravel in front of their water and feed troughs and in their favorite "hangout" spots. It works quickly too. All my horses are barefoot so its very important to me to have hard tough durable hooves. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Jim Rickens, Iodine and turpentine for ouchiness. But in all honesty you need to have your shoer bring the toes back on your horses feet. When they get to long in the toe so does the sole, that leave a horse with thin soles, and that creates a sore footed horse. When the toe is brought back so is the sole providing more protection. The gravel helps break back the hoof on horses that never leave their pasture/paddock if left barefoot long enough. |
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