![]() ![]() He also told me to use bleach on the white line. I'm crediting the bar trims, which btw my farrier (bless his heart) had advised me would take away too much sole. He usually has an issue with flaring and chipping, but funny enough this go round not so much. It has also been very wet during this time, so Val has some white line working. I trimmed the bars weekly, but am still in the learning stages on hooves so didn't mess with them. My farrier just made it out after an eight week break - it's usually six or seven in the winter. Hope you don't mind weighing in on some questions. The problem is this only treats the aftermath of the issue, not the source so it never goes away completely.Ī timely post for me. Sometimes the hoof will split and it is common practice for a farrier to either "score" the crack with a rasp, burn it or put a shoe on it to stop it from splitting. This is where you start to see the cracks in the hoof wall. It comes from the coronet band and makes it's way down the hoof. ![]() or by neglect such as bad living conditions, long time between trims leaving flares and stretching the laminae, allowing the pathogens to invade etc. The pathogens get into the hoof wall, be it by injury such as an abcess, cut hairline, compromised laminae (laminitis, founder) etc. However it can go down into the white line in a severe case and cause it to die and become hollow (Seedy toe). ![]() White line disease (Hereafter known as WLD) is an inappropriate name because it actually originates between the pigmented layer of hoof and the unpigmented layer (AKA the water line as some people call it), not the white line. A common and yet very unknown cause: White line disease!!! There is ALWAYS a reason why hooves don't look smooth and shiny without someone running a rasp over them. The hoof wall seems more reluctant to chip off, thrush that doesn't seem to want to completely go away, falling apart frogs, lack of concavity, ouchiness on rough terrain, can't hold shoes without chipping off, persistent flares are just some of the symptoms. ![]()
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