Yeah weird. I’ve never had a hoof punch through a bag lined with a bunch of duct tape and never had anything leak out either of the bag is closed and the top wrapped with vet wrap to keep it in an upright position and closed.
I am going through a bad bout of white line with my donkey right now. Nothing helped until I tried the White Lightning GEL. It’s thicker so doesn’t run out like liquid would. And while I understand the gel originally came as a two component blend that you had to mix together, that is no longer the case - just a little squeeze bottle with clear gel in it.
I hold up my donk’s hoof, clean it out, squirt some water in using a squeeze bottle like you get for mustard/ketchcup, blot it dry with a paper towel, then squeeze the gel into the crevice, stuff some bits of cotton ball in to help the gel stay put, then slap a layer of duct tape on hood bottom (cross of 4 pieces to look like a hashtag before you start working and then slap that on the foot and a bit up the sides after the cotton balls). I tear the cotton, make the hash-tag and have the paper towel handy before I start so that part goes quickly (he is a donkey after all). Once the hash-tag tape is on I use more duct tape to beef up the bottom and lower foot, then wrap with some vet wrap, then finish with a top layer of duct tape on the bottom and up about 3/4 of the foot, not to the coronary band, to protect from rain if any is predicted. This method has been working for us and I leave it on for 3-4 days before changing.
I will also say that the White Lightning Gel is the first thing that has worked. From being practically 3-legged lame for weeks, Donk cantered up to the gate day before yesterday. It will still be a long road before the hoof grows out but this is the first thing that’s had a noticeable impact.
Good luck!
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Yeah weird. I’ve never had a hoof punch through a bag lined with a bunch of duct tape and never had anything leak out either of the bag is closed and the top wrapped with vet wrap to keep it in an upright position and closed.[/QUOTE]
Before I bought the WL bags, I tried the freezer bags lined with 3 layers of duct tape. My horse was barefoot, standing on rubber mats, and broke through both bags within 5 minutes. He pawed a few times and that’s all it took. Maybe I just have bad duct tape? LOL
I just went through this not so long ago. What worked best for me was to use an old inner tube - they are often free, and they are tough. And flexible.
I used White Lightning at first but it is very pricey, about $1 per oz. White Lightning is chlorine dioxide. You can buy chlorine dioxide tablets for about $19.99 for 30 tablets at most sporting goods stores; I got mine at REI - online. Use about 8 tablets per half gallon, along with your white vinegar. I only needed to use about a cup and a half of this solution for each treatment and it worked, and was much less expensive. My mare had a fairly severe case of WLD, after a bout with laminitis and some hoof wall separation. I don’t know if it would have cleared up with just an iodine solution; our farrier had to resect quite a bit of hoof wall so we could get at the fungus. The open air exposure does a lot to kill it too. Good luck!
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Yeah weird. I’ve never had a hoof punch through a bag lined with a bunch of duct tape and never had anything leak out either of the bag is closed and the top wrapped with vet wrap to keep it in an upright position and closed.[/QUOTE]
I have. I’ve had exactly the same problem as the OP. I gave up on all plastic bags, and didn’t want to pay for the ones sold by White Lightning co. The inner tube was free. It worked.
You can also buy Oxine, which is the exact same thing as White Lightning (and in liquid form). With shipping, a gallon is something like $33. http://www.amazon.com/Oxine-Animal-Health-AH-Gallon/dp/B000HT7H8W
And you can buy it at Amazon and throw in a heavy duty dry bag to use for a soaking boot. :yes:
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The other key is following up after the initial soaking treatments. My mare fought it in one hoof for the better part of 6 months. The farrier resected the small area to make sure it would get oxygen, since white line is anaerobic. I would use a horse shoe nail to keep it cleaned out, and then used a blunt needle to squirt thrush buster in it every few days. That was the magic combo for us in the end!
