Tips for using Keratex hoof putty

[soloequestrian]

I've only really used it for abscess holes in the past - warm it up a bit, stuff it in and it's been fine. Now though one horse has mild white line disease and has a few quite long narrow sections missing that I'd like to pack to stop small stones getting up there. I can't get the stuff in - if I warm it it just sticks to my hands or other implement, if I leave it cold it's not malleable enough to go into the fissures. Any advice?

 

[Gloi]

When I was using it I warmed it a piece a little inside my clothes then rolled it between my hands into a thin sausage then prodded it in with a nail.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

I did what Gloi did. It was a pain tho. My boy had white line disease in both fronts which I used the putty for. My farrier made the shoes different at the front in the end to compensate for the white line which was much easier.!

 

[ycbm]

My tip is throw it away and replace it with Red Horse products which are easier to use and work better. ?

 

[soloequestrian]

I've got the Red Horse something-or-other, can't remember the name - soft stuff that's for treating WLD. It doesn't stop the grit going in there though which is why I want to use the hoof putty. Do Red Horse do something more solid?

 

[ycbm]

Hoof Stuff would be what I would try but if you've already tried that I think they do Arti-mud?

 

[PurBee]

i too tried keratex hoof putty for wld gaps to stop tiny stone bits lodging deep into the crevices - it was useless...

In the end i daily used copper sulphate 1tsp dissolved into 1 ltr - sprayed the gaps...aswell as pack some gaps with the copper sulphate crystals.

For a really bad case i’d now probably use one of those hoof plastic pads in a tube type stuff you apply with a mastic gun - pour the whole lot on the frog/sole/gaps...fill everything after thoroughly digging out all black gunk and washing with copper sulphate.
The plastic stuff dries hard - not stone hard, it has some flex for hoof movement - but stones wont penetrate it and open up wld gaps.