Seedy toe help

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OrionDuca

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My horse has developed seedy toe, i've heard lots of treatments for it, and i would just like some advice, my farrier told me to put iodine on it with a cotton bud, what's everyones experience of that?

Also, i've seen a few things saying that it can be caused by diet, i've been wanting to get a nutritionist out to my horse for a while as he's just being backed and i want to make sure he's getting everything he needs, my problem is i can't find anywhere that advises, i've tried online things on various websites but i've never had any response, does anybody know what i can do?

Thank you everyone
 
Is there a hole there? If so then I would get some Hoof Stuff from Red Horse, you need to dig out muck, clean well then fill the hole ( I use a farriers nail )leave alone and re do after a week; It should grown out depending on how deep it goes.

A lot of people soak with cleantrax. Ben has seedy toe atm on both fronts, only small, my trimmer says they start off as a small crack and get small stones in that then infects the white line? ( I'm sure someone else more knowledgeable will come along! )
 
I have found cleaning the space/hole/crack with hydrogen peroxide and then stuffing with copper sulphate dissolved into Vaseline works well, as long as you can do this every few days for a while....
 
I've found the Red Horse products really helpful and Clare Macleod is an independent equine nutritionist based in Wiltshire who offers a distance evaluation if necessary, she did one recently for me and it was quite helpful.
 
Someone told me today to just leave it. It's all so confusing! I've never had to deal with more than a slight cut before! I've been very lucky. Thanks for your help :) I'll take a look at her, thank you very much
 
I posted this a few days ago in another thread. Hope it helps.

'I have one recently with quite extensive seedy toe in both front feet. My previous farrier has been trying to deal with it for ages. I have recently changed farrier to one who works regularly with my vet practice, and he suggested to get the vet out to x ray them. X rays were good (no displacement etc) and vet returned to sedate horse and drill out (very very carefully!) all the seedy toe crud. A week of box rest (but horse fully comfortable) and the farrier returned to put shoes on, squirt special filler in the cracks and the horse is ready to go. The filler is strong enough to nail into if necessary, and should simply grow out naturally. Should be a 100% recovery.

The secret is to get all the seedy toe muck out so you are left with healthy hoof. It is not always necessary to go to the lengths that we had to with mine, it depends on how far it extends.'
 
My lad has had seedy toe a few times, Farrier digs it out with plugs the hole with cotton woll and soaks with Anti Bac by Swan Products. Farriers swear by it. So now I Will regularly squirt some towards the toe to keep it clean. Its also great for thrushy feet
 
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