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| Whats your prevention choices other than daily clean out of the hooves? Do you think mostly stall kept horses are more prone to it if turned out? Are more horses just prone to it period? I have one gelding having a heck of a time with it and no one else is nor ever has.....BUT he has mostly stall kept with little to no turnout time during these muddy southern winter months. Currently he is just having to stay up so his feet stay dry and well. Any suggestions?
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I just read the headlines
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| Hoof boots any time they are in a stall is what my farrier tells me. It protects their feet from the urine and poop. |
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| GLP - 2017-01-10 12:52 PM
Hoof boots any time they are in a stall is what my farrier tells me. It protects their feet from the urine and poop.
My stalls get picked twice a day and stay pretty dry. I've never had a problem with one thats kept in a stall having it. My problem is the mud and our southern winters lol |
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I just read the headlines
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| She said that unless you could clean their stalls every time they poop or pee, to keep boots on them. Some horses are just more sensitive. My daughter's horse developed thrush at the boarding stable and they also clean stalls 2 times a day, but they had had a lot of rain and the horses couldn't go outside. She put boots on her and used thrush meds and she got better. She also said something else, though about their immune system and thrush. She feels that if their immune system is not strong, that thrush can be an indicator. But since I have not ever dealt with it, I can only pass on what I have been told.
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Location: Southern Indiana | When you do clean them out squirt a little hoofflex thrush remedy in them as a preventive. It's the best thing I've use beside the cow medicine. I think a dry stall not soaked in urine is the next best preventative. I feel like urine is worse than mud when it comes to thrush. Standing on wet ground doesn't seem to bother mine as much. |
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | I have found my horse is more prone if the trimming is late and she gets longer and has more creases/ pockets for junk to hide so I suggest a good farrier routine. |
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| This dude is shod on the dot at 5 1/2 weeks each rotation so he's good on that part. I've seen bleach water mix as a preventative but is that too harsh for hooves? Will hooves get "used" to a daily preventative and need it? Maybe ACV sprayed in there I dunno just looking for cheap effective prevention. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | prividone/iodine come in the bottle that way. apply to the frog where there are cracks. when the thrush is gone you will see a full healthy frog similar to pads on a dog. This stuff you can wash off your hands unlike kopper tox that never leaves. |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | I like the medicine used to treat mastitis in cows. It's nowhere near as smelly and washes off easily.
Mine get a touch of thrush when it's been wet a lot, but nothing like you're describing. I'd give the hoof boots a try. Also, maybe a probiotic and/or vitamins to help boost the immune system. Worth a try! Good luck. |
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| Old timer recipe- stater fluid spray all on bottoms the apply reducing put cotton balls in coladeral groves and duct tape foot leave on 2-3 days then redo for 1-2 weeks then just use reducing on whole foot 1-2x a week- best thing I've done and I have done many methods - No on the bleach stuff imo |
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| Thrush is a fungal infection. Some horses are more prone to it. Hoof boots will not prevent thrush, but can actually exacerbate it as it gives the fungus a warm moist environment to grow in. (This is if they are left on for a lengthy period.)
I have one that is a chronic founder and she needs to wear boots 24/7, I put 16 percent iodine pads on her feet and vet wrap them on then put her feet in the boots.
If your horse is prone to thrush try and get the hind gut working normal, and this will help |
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| Nita - 2017-01-11 11:10 PM
I like the medicine used to treat mastitis in cows. It's nowhere near as smelly and washes off easily.
Mine get a touch of thrush when it's been wet a lot, but nothing like you're describing. I'd give the hoof boots a try. Also, maybe a probiotic and/or vitamins to help boost the immune system. Worth a try! Good luck.
what is this medicine? I'm curious too thank you |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Tomorrow or Today mastitis medicine from Boerhinger Inglhiem (sp??) The Tomorrow is a little stronger as it is a Dry Cow treatment so they don't have to worry about milk withdrawal.
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| Healthy immune systems and healthy hooves.
I talked with my trimmer about it last time he was out as we've been mucky and gross and I though I was seeing some. Turns out crap packed in hooves just stinks - no thrush.
Healthy tight hoof walls and frogs are important so there are no crevaices for fungus to enter the collateral groves or center sulcus. Unhealthy hooves can be the first signs of a mineral imbalance or weakened immune system (the same way we show it in our hair and fingernails). I suggest making sure your feeding program includes macro micro and trace minerals and consider and immune booster for a while. |
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| Every horseshoer iv ever known used Kopertox twice a week as a preventative. Thrush is caused by the moist environment that we find during the wet times of year. If the horse already has it really bad, every other day for a few weeks followed by twice a week and it will usually disappear. Kopertox does not wash off so it soaks into their hooves and creates a barrier, unlike any water based treatment that will only last until they step in mud again. Since you are stalling and keep them clean, a cheaper water based formula may work just fine. |
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Location: Southern Alabama | I clean feet 2x daily... once in the morning when I feed and turn them out, since they are in the barn at night and once in the evenings when I bring them up from the pasture to the barn. I spend 20-30 minutes on each horse... brushing, looking them over, etc. If I notice they are getting thrush, I spray ACV and tea tree oil mixture in their feet. And repeat until it's gone. If they have thrush, I use Kopertox. |
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