Yes, sadly the owners of the company died, so it wasn’t available for awhile but it makes sense that Garret with EasyCare would have picked up the proprietary chemical. It’s much safer than oxine, which I understand has a very thin margin for error.
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My first horse came with a wicked case of white line. The hoof wall was resected and she had glue on shoes. Fungidye worked well on it & I think she got Nu-Foot as a supplement. Good luck.
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My experience is that the best treatment for hoof wall seperation is to resect the compromised outer hoof wall and let it grow out healthy. However if the hoof is also compromised that might cause further problems. I recall a barn friend years ago having that dilemma with a horse that had white line disease plus a healed coffin bone fracture so the vet didn’t want to destabilize the hoof at all.
Taking outer wall off a healthy hoof doesn’t cause problems IME
I would really recommend taking the time to do a soak and gas with the White Lightning or oxine at the next farrier appointment. My farrier brought a customer large IV bags to use for the soaking/trapping of the gas.
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I think the soak with cleantrax is the right solution. The owner has been treating it with white lightning but has been doing that for a couple of months and it’s not getting any better.
We did a very small resection on the worst spot a couple of months ago. This was after x-rays and we had two farriers and the vet present when we made that decision. I don’t know that we need to do more resection at this point. When I say it’s bad, I mean it is in multiple places and affects pretty much the entire white line, but it doesn’t go up very high.
Do you know what the ingredients are in the fungidye? I can’t seem to find them online and all of the pictures of the bottle are too low resolution to show what’s in it. 
https://www.chewy.com/farrier-science-clinic-fungidye/dp/339683
Acriflavin gentian violet and trypanocide
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With the White Lightning, is the owner having the farrier pull the shoes for the soak and is the owner trapping the gas as the horse soaks? That’s the best method to allow the solution and the gas to work it’s way into the parts of the hoof not exposed to oxygen, which is where the white line disease grows.
The horse is currently barefoot (which we’ve realized isn’t working for his soundness issues, hence this post).
She told me she’s been using white lightning but there’s no soaking involved, so she must be using the gel.
If the scoot boots fit, but you need more padding, have you tried the Therarides? I haven’t tried them, but they are designed to work with a pad.
Scootboot TheraRide | The Ultimate Therapeutic & Riding Hoof Boot
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Those look exactly like the boots that she has on him, sans padding. She talked about adding padding to them but I’m not sure if she has tried that yet. I know they barely fit so the padding may have been too much bulk, causing them not to fit anymore.
She might have the Enduro/Adjust (same boot, Adjust is the new name). I have a set and they are only designed for no extra pad or a thinner pad. They are very similar to the Theraride, but the Theraride is designed to be used with a thicker pad that is included.
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That makes sense, thanks! I’ll mention them to her, although it seems more and more like a shoe might be a better option 
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She said they don’t make them in his size 
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She needs to be using the “real” white lightning, not the gel. The gel is good for preventative, not for an active/severe case.
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I agree and also doing the soak and trapping the gas according to the instructions. The bacteria grow by traveling up the while line where there is no oxygen and you need to allow the treatment to get into those areas.
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Does this putty “stay” in the divot/indent created by the white line?
I’m dealing with a mild case in my filly - we’ve had an awful and unusually wet spring and I keep finding little rocks in the white line.
My farrier didn’t seem to think she needed White Lightning but I’m about to buy some anyway. In the meantime I’m packing with cotton balls but they don’t stay on long. She’s barefoot.
I think so! Mine is shod, but I’ve put the putty in the clefts and found it intact the next day and even the day after if it’s not picked out.
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Steve O’Grady (vet and farrier) has a lot of good info on his website on white line.
If areas of separation are to be covered by a horse shoe they should first be packed with an antiseptic packing. The preferred packing of the Equine Podiatry Service (EPS) at the Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine (VMCVM) is a mixture of oakum, venice turpentinea and copper sulfate.
This is a more extensive discussion:
White Line Disease - A Review
