I picked some sterihoof up at tractor supply today to try on my senior mare who has white line. I have never heard of it or seen it before, and I am trying to find something that WORKS! Has anyone used this with success?
What are your favorite white line treatments? We are struggling! I have used white lightening in the past, but honestly wasn’t that impressed…
Copper sulfate diluted in ACV, Go Dry / Tomorrow / Today, extra copper and zinc in diet. Once improved I use Fluid Film for preventative maintenance along with the copper ACV mix
A good (few if necessary) soaks in White Lightning (or generic oxine) or Clean Trax. The soaks really get deep into tissue
What does “we are struggling” mean?
I just feel like it comes back no matter what I do, I guess I need to find something for maintenance between treating with stronger stuff. She had had great feet the past 14 years and in the last year, it has slowly gotten worse
One of my mares developed toe cracks and the farrier told me it was WL. He suggested a product called " Begone" which he swore by. I was pretty skeptical because it was just copper sulfate and something else common. It came in a tube like paste wormer and you squirted into the hole in the foot. That and moving up her trimming schedule got rid of whatever she had. So I don’t know if taking a week off her cycle or that blue stuff did the trick but they grew out and did not come back.
My vet feels WL is an opportunistic infection so you might look into xrays of her feet to make sure you are not dealing with subclinical laminitis.
If it truly is WLD, and keeps coming back, is your farrier doing any resecting? Have you had xrays?
One of my horses has a tendency to develop seedy toe. In my experience, soaking alone won’t cure it. What worked for my horse was for the farrier to first resect the hoof far enough to remove the infection, then soak with Clean Trax (or generic oxine). We also shortened his trim cycle, so the hoof doesn’t start to crack and allow infection back in. And if I see any signs of a crack developing I treat with B Gone until the farrier can trim it out.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with hoof resection, but if the white line disease isn’t too far advanced it’s no big deal. My horse was barefoot after his resection and I rode him in hoof boots. He was totally sound the whole time and the hoof grew out good as new in a few months. More extensive resections can be stabilized with shoeing. The key to controlling white line disease is to treat it early and aggressively.
We have resected and treated right after, but it still persists! We have moved up trims to every 4 weeks and am willing to have him out even more. She is over 30 and has cushings, but does not handle prascend well. (That’s another story…tried everything over the years and she refuses to eat anything at all with any prascend in her system). She has a vet appointment soon, so I am planning on having the farrier come out at the same time.
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