White Lightning makes a gel, is that available in Canada?
http://www.grandcircuitinc.com/products/white-lightning®-60-ml-gel
I’ve used that (or the mastitis treatment) along with packing the sulcus with Hoof Phelt. It doesn’t absorb water and helps open it up.
Apply treatment (White Lightning gel or the mastitis treatment) and then stuff the crack with strips of Hoof Phelt. Use a hoof pick to get it in. At first you can stuff a lot in there, but eventually as it opens it will be less and less.
The trim? Without seeing pics it’s just guessing but are her heels and bar tall? Getting heels down (and back if underrun) and bars if they’re tall so that she can use the back of her feet will help to open up the heels and reduce the thrush episodes (once it’s under control).
I would use the white lightening and wrap her feet.
Can you sedate her and do a cleantrax soaking treatment? Sounds like she’s in a great deal of pain so a little sedation will help her tolerate soaking so you can get it done quickly and safely. Hopefully oneo will knowk it back and make it hurt less so you can get meds into the crack.
ToMorrow and Today are not prescription. I buy mine at the local Co-Op store. Some Tractor Supplies carry it. Any type of farm store should carry it. I THINK you might find it in the Valley Vet catalogue.
i have always used ToMorrow, I can’t say if the ToDay works as well. Either way, buy the whole box of syringe tubes, lol. If the pony is that bad, one tube will not be enough.
Also buy some of WalMart’s diaper rash PASTE, not the cream. The paste is 40% zinc oxide to help with healing, plus you can put it over top the ToMorrow to hold it into the central sulci (crack between the heel bulbs.
pay attention to how deep the nose of the syringe goes into the crack. The deeper it goes, the worse the situation is. The crack needs to heal from the inside out, and the nose of the syringe will gradually not go in as deep, until it reaches a point where there isn’t a crack to put the syringe in.
Yes, good point! I’ve been working with a new barefoot trimmer for 4 months on a 4 week cycle. I do touch ups in between trims with a file. He is slowly bringing down the heels and the bars are kept in check. Now that the frogs have shed, they are not in contact with the ground, but the hooves are so upright that we can’t bring the down any further until the next trim as he is worried about causing tendon issues.
Good news though, pony’s sulcus opened up a lot after last week’s trim! I can almost fit my pinky finger in the crack! The Trush Buster (purple stuff) seems to be working. He is still not happy about me picking the one foot. We are working him every day by lunging and riding in sand rings as well as road hacking and it seems to be helping.
I’ve been there big time with my guy–long heels and toes, very contracted, chronic thrush that took months to clear completely.
Regular good trims to bring the feet down and the frog into contact with the ground are super important. Tomorrow for mastitis is also great. I really like the No Thrush powder for when feet are actually “wet”. I actually found that rotating treatments depending on how the foot looked that day worked best…Tomorrow when feet seemed dry-ish, Farrier’s Fix hoof oil painted over the whole foot when soles seem dry, and No Thrush on wet days to dry everything out. Eventually the frog will widen out and the thrush will clear, but it’s definitely a slog. And even now, months after I have a perfectly healthy looking foot situation happening and he’s in full pads I’ll squirt some Tomorrow under his leather hoof pad, and dust the bottom of his foot with No Trush when he’s in between pad applications. I figure it can’t hurt to just stay on top of it as a preventative given how long it took to get rid of it the first time around.
Yes it does seem to take a very long time to get rid of thrush. I saw the white lightning gel in the store today but at $55 I hesitate to try it. Has anyone tried it?
I had a TB gelding who had central sulcus thrush, q-tips worked great for gently cleaning out the cracks. He was a sensitive sort and wouldn’t tolerate any pain and soaking wasn’t safe lol
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