Has anyone used Durasole on a sore footed thin soled horse? does it help?
Or is there something better to use then durasole? My gelding is sore footed and thin soled. Has a hard time walking over hard ground or any kind of gravel.
Very short strided and gimps over gravel or rocks,so looking for something to toughen up his soles. He’s only sore on front feet back feet are fine,he’s also barefoot.
How often does he have to “gimp” over gravel? I would get him shod up front, durasole will help toughen but it does not thicken the sole so you are looking at bruising or creating a blood blister no matter what. Look at the horse’s nutrition also.
Durasole made my horse get artificial sole layer again and again; and then would shed and be sensitive again. My farrier just recommends Venice Turpentine to toughen it up and nothing really helps build up the sole its self , unless you find vitamin or supplement that helps your particular horse.
Will it fix a horse that needs shoes? no. But IME it helps and it is cheap to buy some and try. I have gotten the best results when I applied twice a day and used a wire brush.
With thin soles you are always playing with fire in terms of pedal osteitis, regular bruises and/or abscesses, not to mention the body issues it can easily cause if he’s too sore too often.
Do you have xrays? Can you post pictures of his feet? Thin soles can easily be caused by poor trimming which allows stretched/flared toes, which stretch and thin the sole.
If this is his genetics, and he’s regularly dealing with gravel/harder surfaces, then the best thing is shoes with pads.
He doesn’t have to go over gravel very often. He is sore on hard packed dirt has been sore since march. Did shoes with pads and he was still sore short strided. His diet is low sugar/starch hay gets no kind of grain. He’s been barefoot for 3 months now,fired farrier wasn’t helping my horse any way.
Have pics can’t get them uploaded says IMG code is off and i can’t get it turned on,spent over a 1/2 hour trying to figure it out. Also have xrays from may.
You have to load them to a hosting site, like photobucket or something, even Facebook in a public album, lots of free hosting sites.
Being sore on even just hard packed dirt since March isn’t cool 
When did you fire the farrier, and how many trims has the new one done on him?
fired farrier about 2 weeks ago used for a year and 3 months. Pictures are from 3 days ago after a trim.
Heres link to pictures http://s1016photobucket.com/usa If this doesn’t work let me know.
Link doesn’t work. It looks like you maybe grabbed a generic link instead of the one to your album
Yes, the link is valid, but it’s the main photobucket page 
Buy the man some front hoof boots! Durasole has been helpful for my barefoot horse, making her significantly more comfortable, but if things are that hard on your guy, get 'im boots. We happen to like Renegades, which are super easy to put on, and have worked very well for us.
He’s been sore since march.
Are you saying the trim pics are the recent trim? Why on earth did the farrier rasp the wall down to the sole at the toe AND rasp into the sole? Without seeing lateral views, it looks like he did a bare-bones shoe trim - just rasp everything flat so the shoe fits and that’s it.
Yes its after the trim,don’t know why it was done like that. I added more pictures of hoofs,a lateral view and a front view, got RF lateral in album now.
I don’t see new pics?
Based on those pics, your horse is showing rot in pretty much all of his hoof tissues- the frog is thrushy, sole is showing rot, the walls are thin (maybe from the trim?) and the white line health looks patchy at best.
I would reserve judgement on the lameness until the rot is thoroughly treated and given adequate time to heal. You’d probably be avoiding gravel too if you had infections eating away the bottoms of your feet. I have seen horses come “miraculously” sound when persistent infections were finally cleared.
I don’t know what your horse’s hygiene situation is like, but I would be working to resolve any mud/poop/urine he may be standing in ASAP and start him on a routine of daily thorough cleaning and weekly anti-fungal soaking (CleanTrax, White Lightning, or similar). If he is still sore after the infection is all cleared, then I might blame thin soles for his lameness. Right now, I’m sorry to be so blunt, but it just looks like a management problem.
FWIW I don’t love the trim from your farrier either (same reasons as JB).
Ok should see them now i forgot to make them public.
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Based on those pics, your horse is showing rot in pretty much all of his hoof tissues- the frog is thrushy, sole is showing rot, the walls are thin (maybe from the trim?) and the white line health looks patchy at best.
I would reserve judgement on the lameness until the rot is thoroughly treated and given adequate time to heal. You’d probably be avoiding gravel too if you had infections eating away the bottoms of your feet. I have seen horses come “miraculously” sound when persistent infections were finally cleared.
I don’t know what your horse’s hygiene situation is like, but I would be working to resolve any mud/poop/urine he may be standing in ASAP and start him on a routine of daily thorough cleaning and weekly anti-fungal soaking (CleanTrax, White Lightning, or similar). If he is still sore after the infection is all cleared, then I might blame thin soles for his lameness. Right now, I’m sorry to be so blunt, but it just looks like a management problem.
FWIW I don’t love the trim from your farrier either (same reasons as JB).[/QUOTE]
He’s standing in clean dirt and no he doesn’t have thrush his frogs are dirty from walking through some mud,that didn’t clean off. There isn’t a management problem corral is kept clean poop picked up daily. Has a clean dry barn he stands in so no horse isn’t living in filth.
And farrier sorry hard to find good one around here.
Rot and thrush? I don’t see either 
I see a dirty sole that hasn’t been cleaned up (in any of the right places), and bars that are laying over (can also contribute to soreness on harder ground)
The frogs are mostly filled in, but they are a bit contracted due to the heels not being regularly trimmed back and down where they belong.
The lateral show the forwardness of the heels as well.
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