Products for various hoof problems

[now_loves_mares]

I seem to have every hoof problem going at the moment!

One horse has a terrible crack in her hoof. Farrier is attending, she has heart bar shoes and a bone plate holding it stable. Vet wanted me to moisturise her coronet band so I'm using basically a vitamin E cream (a hoof product, think it's made by equi-wise?) However I also need to keep the crack clean and disinfected, so vet suggests keratex hoof putty to fill it. She also has sheared heels and disintegrating frogs

presumably due to constant effing wet weather. My trainer suggests using povidine (sp?) and sugar mixture to dry these out? At the moment she is on box rest so I don't suppose I need to use any drying products. She's already on top spec balancer (though only in the last few weeks) with extra biotin to top up as top spec only has the minimum amount recommended for a smaller horse.

The other one, a typical TB with very flat feet, seems to have very dry feet (also on box rest poor soul, as turning her out alone is too dangerous). She has only just had back shoes put on, but has very strange frogs on her back feet, basically looks like it has been planed flat. There are no peaks and troughs as you'd see in a normal frog. I assume this is just due to her very flat feet and will be helped now they are shod, but especially as she is on box rest, should I be using some kind of moisturiser? Daft question but should I use a different one for sole and horn and coronet band

(she is also on top spec and upping her biotin a bit too)

So basically I currently own:
Keratex hoof putty
Equi-wise hoof growth cream
Hoof disinfectant (from farrier, no idea what brand)
Cornucrescine
NAF hoof moist

And am getting to the stage it feels like a Heston Blumenthal recipe to get all the products right

Sorry, bit of a waffle really! Has anyone heard of the scrub to dry the feet? And any experience of using the hoof putty?

 

[Janette]

Is this the sugar mixture?

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Make some Sugardine--it's a home-made thrush remedy--. Mix a povidone-iodine product - such as Betadine scrub, solution, or ointment - with white table sugar to form a thin paste. Wash the hoof thoroughly with mild soap, such as Betadine scrub, and plenty of warm water. Pat the hoof dry with a cloth and apply sugardine deep into the clefts of the frog using a small brush or like I suggest above and pack the paste in his frog. Apply twice a day.

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I found this on the internet at

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080310035031AA4U85w

Now that's Really Heston blumenthal. Good luck with the feet.

 

[MrsMozart]

My farrier said get the basic hoof stuff as it's the Biotin that's important and everything else was window dressing (he knows that I'd go off and buy the most expensive thing on the market!). He also said use Cornucrescine (sp?!) everyday.

The combination worked on pone's very dry feet

 

[aimeeq94]

definately get sugardine mixture, iodine mixed with sugar, brush it on to frogs twice a day and pack it down sides of frogs at night when in stable.. keep feet as dry as poss, put bandages round them at night if you want.
this is what we did with horse at my stables.
he was nearly PTS because of serious thrush and [i think its called] canker, and we did this as last hopem had tried everything, now his feet go up and down when people "forget" to do his feet or it is espescially muddy in field.
keep him in as much as you can when its very very muddy, and make sure his bed is kept very clean andd dry.. adds to bedding bills but its better than having expensive vets bills & horses PTS!
does this help?


xxx

 

[aimeeq94]

just read the post again, and saw the disintegrating frog part,, missed it before.. this is what our horse was like, literally had no frog at all in one foot, just white creamy stuff, [thrush] his feet are now the same as any horses most of the time, as long as it is kept on top of!
xxxx

 

[now_loves_mares]

Thanks everyone. Bedding not a problem, she is on rubber mats so mostly standing on them and not the bedding anyway. Plus I use deep cardboard bedding so the wet never gets to the surface.

After posting this last night I too googled sugardine - it seems like a miracle cure? Do I just get the povidine from a normal chemist?