White liine disease and diet

[Micky]

Ditto Amandap. Sorry wasnt explaining myself very well ...Unless your horse has any clinical signs of EMS or PPID ( google) then dont bother with the tests...Try adding a tbsp of natural yogurt to his feed everyday, helped my old tb hugely, balanced his gut out ( 6months later) and now he's fine, he was a poor doer until I did that and gave him thirds in the winter months to help with the weight loss.

 

[LPL]

That's really interesting. I will give that a go. I took a video of his trotting in the school today, he is nearly sound on grass very sore on stones and not happy on smooth concrete. I just wanted to see what he was like trotting out so this vid was taken for 30 secs and that was it. I think the looks *okay* but what do I know. His shoes have been off nearly a week. Hopefully his new balancer will have arrived by tomorrow.

http://youtu.be/v49E68uwfxc

Let me know what you think you have all been amazing.

 

[Gloi]

Mine was always having WLD problems when he was shod, the infection would get in through the nail holes and his feet would end up broken up like yours. Once his shoes were off it was dug and cleaned out as much as possible, sprayed in the holes with fungicide and filled with Keratex hoof putty. It gradually grew out and 6 months later there was no sign of it and his feet were loads better in every way.