Feeding Pro Hoof for a shod foot

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Christmas Crumpet

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I have started feeding my loan horse Pro Hoof because he has feet that don't have much growth each time he is shod. He is also on micronised linseed along with his Purabeet, oats and Alfa A molasses free. His feet aren't great but he is 20 and I want to make sure I am doing the best by him to help the feet grow a little more.

Taking his shoes off is not an option because he is with me to go hunting and we don't have time for a barefoot rehab esp. as it is very flinty round where we hunt.

Is there anything else I can do to help them grow a little bit more? I am hoping the Pro Hoof will strengthen them up a bit as well as help them grow. I assume that just because it is used for barefoot horses, it can also help shod horses.

Does anyone else with a shod horse use it and have you seen the benefits?
 
The 'BF diet' really is just a sensible diet for all horses, so you are certainly doing the right thing. Remember that the new diet will only help the new growth. So it will be a few months before the whole hoof capsule grows down and you get better quality horn at the bottom.
 
OP - slowth growth can be linked to inappropriate nutrition. It can also be linked to metabolic disease, such as PPID (Cushings). So at 20 if your horse has not recently tested negative then it might be worth taking advantage of the free PPID tests currently available.
 
Good points above :)
Just to add, using e.g. ProHoof (I've used it and like it), the minerals don't just whizz down the bloodstream to the hooves :D If there is a mineral imbalance in a horse's diet, the minerals in ProHoof will help to address that, so you can see improvement in coat, hooves, frogs, fewer infections (for me, that included the horse healing faster from day to day cuts and grazes, fewer runny eyes...). It will also help improve how the horse digests and absorbs nutrients from the rest of their diet.
If you don't find there's any improvement, try increasing the amount fed for a while - we have strange grass here and the minerals in the recommended dose of ProHoof weren't enough, I needed to increase amounts by a fair bit. If that has no effect, as LucyPriory says, there may be another metabolic issue that results in slow hoof growth.
 
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