![]() Use a scrub or wire brush to get the frog and all the cracks immaculate, then flush the frog with running water, dry it with toweling and proceed to soak with Lysol, Oxine, Clean Trax or White Lightning.Īfter treatments, dry the frog off and apply Zinc Oxide ointment (Desitin) over the frog and work it into all the cracks and crevices.Ĭleaning infected feet daily and thoroughly is the best way to insure that your treatments won't be a waste of time or drag on for months. If thrush has been an ongoing problem for you? Think of it as a bacterial infection in the horses foot, an open wound, and institute a daily scrubbing routine to accelerate the healing process. "Cleaning" also means a total foot bath with Lysol dilution or Dawn dish washing detergent with a good brush scrubbing in the wash rack if you have an infection that is taking more than a week or two to clear up! "Cleaning" means picking out the hoof thoroughly once or twice a day for mild thrush that is a fine black line at the bottom of the commisure) with a hoof pick. ![]() Depending on how severe your horses thrush is, cleaning has different meanings. One aspect of the treatment that most people disregard is the importance of **really** cleaning the frog thoroughly on a daily basis and prior to treatment. It is a restricted group in that it is closed to people trimming invasively or promoting an invasive trim approach.Ĭlean Thrushy Feet - Then Keep Them Clean! There are more than 18 professional trimmers and 3 or 4 farrier's on the list (who also do barefoot trimming), and folks who shoe are welcome here too. Visit the Whole Horse Health Yahoo group for more advice on thrush! This group isn't just about barefoot, we talk about about diet, environment, vet care body work, chiropractic, acupuncture and acupressure. Whatever you use, if its taking more than a week or two to get rid of the greasy looking frogs and tenderness associated with thrush, you should revisit your treatment plan, starting with a reality check about how clean you get the infected frogs on a daily basis, and verifying that the treatment you're using is appropriate for the thrush your horse has. The gel should be available from either Grand Circuit or NEFS.Over the past two years, several new strategies for fighting thrush have become popular, and several old methods of treating Thrush have lost their popularity. White Lightning does now come in a gel form though, which for thrush at least can be injected into cavities in the foot or covered for an hour or something with plastic wrap to allow it to penetrate.Ĭentaur Forge does not list the gel on the website, only the 8 oz bottles. I worry that soaking with shoes on would have a negative effect on the nails. ![]() I have never done that, and I usually recommend against it - I use the soak between the trim and the shoes, and often when a horse has that black ring around the nail hole I will see rust appear there after the soak. This lead to the next question, can the white lightening soaks be use I want to have something on hand for his next shoeing Shoeing and we didn't have anything on hand so the farrier cleaned itĪll out and I soaked it in surgical strenght betadine before his shoes Gelding is getting some WLD starting, not deep but enough crumbly we're going kinda OT here, I'm cross-posting this to ECPhotos list so we can take it there. I use it consistently for horses with walls that get mushy in wet weather. I rarely have to treat more than once for a mild WLD case. Sav A Hoof has a decent reputation but I know of at least one persistent case that was not helped by the Sav A Hoof (multiple treatments) and resolved with either WL or CT but I can't remember which the lady ended up using (we had extended discussion about both products and my memory fails me). Thrushbuster, Fungidye, Sav A Hoof, a plethora of other "treatments" do very little once thrush is established, and in the case of the first 2 are ineffective for white line disease. ![]() Thrush buster or Fungidye that would works better. Preferred treatment for thrush and WLD or is there something else like In your professional opinion is this your (you'll pay a little more there but it's a website) Do you know where I canĬarried by Northeast Farrier Supply 86 and most other farrier supply houses Night looking for info on White Lightening. I can't believe how timely your post is, I just spent 2 hours last
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