Recent content by Tnavas

Ester, sorry I can't answer your questions, I said quite clearly in my first post that it was a theory! I'm not just a riding instructor, HM is my speciality, I teach senior Pony Club members from all over the North Island at H level, with a 100% pass rate, including one with Honours. I do...

Your words - maybe your advice it not too sound either - but OH! you haven't given any advice at all - just knocked other posters for their thoughts! I have been proved very correct in my thoughts on Rain Scald and Mudfever and have got testemonials from many people who have contacted me after...

Well here's your chance to give the Cornucrescene a try, or you could try the Vicks treatment. The damaged horn has been removed as far as can be done from below so giving it a try from the growth area wouldn't hurt and it's not invasive. In the past I had a horse with Seedy toe, he arrived...

Well you luck just ran out! :D Well I'm sorry that you haven't the courage to try something new - maybe you are one of the people who put your horse through torture picking off scabs for rain scald and mudfever, getting kicked at in the process. When mine get it - I'm in a high humidity wet...

In reply to several of the above. Stockholm Tar, a pad and shoeing, protect the damaged food, preventing foreign bodies from re entering the foot. It is only a temporary thing if the horse is not normally shod. The Stockholm Tar packed into the wound will treat the white line disease. Leo...

The infection is not in the bottom of the foot, if it were it could be cut out cleanly with ease. The infection starts in the live tissue that builds the hoof, the coronary band, It then travels down with the growth of the foot, and because of the shape of the horses foot, the weakened damaged...

Having treated countless hoof abscess over a 50 year period my comments are from experience. The horse is lame because there is inflammation from bacteria infection. It needs to be poulticed until all the bacteria has gone, I also use a topical antibiotic such as the sort used for mastitis. Once...

Keep up with a wet poultice such as Animalintex until the horse is sound. Pack the hole with cottonwool soaked in Stockholm Tar, Have farrier shoe with a leather pad between shoe and sole. Before the shoe is put on, paint the sole with Stockholm tar and a layer of cottonwool paint the piece of...

Cornucrescene is a mild blister, it also kills fungus, so helps to prevent the white line disease from continuing, then you just need time for the foot to grow down, There is no need to stop working the horse, just ensure that the farrier takes the pressure off the worst area.

Camp is mega fun - I never got to attend as a member but got to attend several as a helper and as an instructor - we had a blast. As others have said if you are not already a Pony Club member research the ones in your catchment area and join one that will cater for your age as well as your and...

I think it starts at the coronet and as the hoof spreads outwards the white line gets wider and wider. The infection is there at the top starting in an area that is vulnarable. Andalucian what makes you think Iodine and cornucrescene is too strong?

If you can still get Cornucrescene then buy some and use it on the coronary band everyday. I have a theory that it begins as a fungal disease in the growth area of the hoof - just lik humans get in their toe nails. The nail under the outer part is crumbly and weak, just like seedy toe. Someone...

Circles, loops and serpentines, leg yielding and shoulder in. The most important though is the circles, loops and serpentines, as they stretch him left and right and eventually he will be supple throughout his body. Transitions between and within the paces will supple him longitudinally and...

Have him checked over by a chiro, if he is out of alignment anywhere it can make him very touch sensitive. Try using a back pack spray, the sort used for spraying weeds. You can use hot water and it goes further as it's easier to manage. It's what I use when away from home. Add soap to the...

Once a day for over 20 years. Sometimes rugged sometimes not. With work I don't have time to do more than that