Posted by Steve Bromley on June 06, 1999 at 01:02:30:
In Reply to: WLD atomic growth posted by Jim McCarley on June 04, 1999 at 01:26:20:
: I currently shoe a grade mare who has the dreaded
: WLD. She lives in, and works in sand. Re-sections
: have been unsuccessful. The upside is the tremendous
: hoof growth. She would be a great test horse
: for something blue or purple or pink, I don't care,
: as long as it might work. I would rather not
: re-section her again, as it is painful for her,
: and last time there was precious little to nail to.
: Any ideas out there???
Hi Jim
Cutting it all away doesn't leave much to nail to but it
lets the air get to it. Theorically oxygen and fugus don't
mix. An alternative to cutting it all away is to clean
out all (as much as you get to) of the crumbly stuff with
hydrogen peroxide. Flush with water - if you don't the
next step acreates a bunch of heat. Get some Lime-Sulfur
solution at a nursery or hardware store (it's for fruit
trees with fungus) soak a cotton ball with the solution.
Fill up the crack (void) where the crumbly stuff was, with
the cotton ball(s) nail your shoe on. Wear rubber gloves.
The lime-sulfur stinks bad and I haven't had the
opportunity to read the material safety data sheet on the
stuff.