On 6/4/07 3:24 PM, "Janice McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when my horses get a crack right in the center and it grows, and the
> farrier comes, files it, it grows again, the farrier comes and by then
> its usually obvious--- thrush. I can say 100% every time my horses
> had a center crack that grew it was thrush, and no other time.
> Janice
Janice:
I have an imported horse who came (from Iceland) with a deep center crack in
a front hoof. The farrier did all he knew how, I ordered staples and put
them in, used all sorts of hoof supplements and stuff to smear on the hoof
line........ nothing helped.
Then my friend Marianne (who had bought several horses from me) told me that
cracks are often caused by a fungus. So I sloshed fungicide on it whenever I
would think of it (anything such as coppertox, iodine, and any such stuff)
and after about 11 months the crack was gone. Completely gone and has never
come back. So.......... you are right I just did not know the name of the
thing.
Anneliese
Anneliese Virro
UNICORN VALLEY ICELANDICS
1800 Carter School Road
Stanford, Kentucky 40484
606-346-4963
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