Comments on: Soak the hoof?

By: Lorraine Mckibben

Lorraine Mckibben — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:21:44 +0000

In reply to jeanette. I have also just got a horse at the age of 55 but have never ridden one apart from organised pony trekking. I find a lot of the information helpful. I am in Northern Ireland.

By: maggie

maggie — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 05:14:32 +0000

I live in high Desert and my farrier says not to allow horses in wet dirt. For all the salt in ground. But yet hoofs are extremly dry and hard im veryconfused trim…

By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:31:04 +0000

Hi Kathy!
I’m very interested in your home recipe for the hooves as I to have tried many different types and they still crack.

By: denise

denise — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 06:04:42 +0000

A good home remedy to help with Thrush is to mix 50/50 water and bleach. Put it in a spray bottle and when you are picking out their feet, spray this in the groove along the frog and just let it run off the hoof. Another “natural” remedy is actually mud. If your horses feet are muddy, clean out the mud and then allow them to get into more mud. The mud is a natural remedy to keep thrush from occurring.

By: jeanette

jeanette — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:45:07 +0000

Hi every body I’m from Australia and new at owning a horse even though I’ve been riding on and of since I was eighteen months old now at the ripe old age of nearly sixty I have my horse and I’m great full for all of your feed back I read it and have learnt a lot thaks everyone

By: Debbie Squires

Debbie Squires — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:26:40 +0000

In reply to Kathy. Hi Kathy, my horse has rain rot on one of his legs and has gone down into the ba k side of the hoof. What is your natural remedy for this and what is your recipe for your hoof oil? Thanks

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 02:55:12 +0000

It’s not the water as much as the MUD that provides the relief… I.E. let the water trough run over to create mud area.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:11:14 +0000

In Barstow, CA, which is in the Mojave Desert, we have to soak the horse’s hooves a couple of days by over flowing the water taml in order for them to be soft enough totrim. 🙂

By: kara

kara — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:31:45 +0000

In reply to Beate. I was researching and found hooflex and the ingredients are tea tree oil, arnica, comfrey and avocado oil help promote healthy hoof growth and maintain the hoof's moisture balance. I know that tea tree oil works like an antiseptic and arnica promotes rapid healing especially bruising. Arnica is use to speed wound healing and bruising after surgery. Comfrey is known to mend bones and avocado oil is good for conditioning the hoof. I suppose you can easily make this yourself since all these ingredients you can get from Fred Meyers. :razz:

By: Stu Cunningham

Stu Cunningham — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 01:15:08 +0000

I run my water tank over a little every day so the horses walk in it when it is dry in the summer. My Farrier says their feet are much better and easier to trim since I started that. They don’t stand in the water for long, but get their feed good and wet each time they drink.