Tips for using Keratex hoof putty

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