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hello, my name is Christine Betz of Christine Betz Dressage. You can find us at ChristineBetzDressage.com.
Today I'm here with my horse, Coronado, he's a pre St George I1 horse, and we are going
to show you how to treat a horse's foot for thrush.
The two products we are going to be using today are Thrush Buster, the second is actually
something for lactating cows that works very well for thrush and sheared heels, it's an
application called Today. We're in good shape today in that Cooper doesn't
actually have thrush, but we're going to go ahead and show you how you would take care
of that problem. You want to make sure you've picked the hoof
thoroughly, cleaned it out, and brushed it off. Then you want to take your product, tip
the hoof up, and apply the product into the grooves of the hoof.
This product is nice because it is purple dye, and you can see exactly where you put
it. Another good place is to put it here in the cleft, where this horse is trying to develop
sheared heels, just so there doesn't develop any infection there.
On this hoof we're going to apply the product today, this reason is Cooper is trying to
develop a sheared heel. Sheared heels is where the bulb of the heel
starts to split, and so this is a great product because it has this little applications tip
and you can just work it gently into this cleft and squeeze at a couple of different
angles, and lodge product into that area to help speed healing of the horses foot.
Another important thing to remember is that if your horse does have thrush or an infected
area, you need to disinfect your hoof pick after you clean his feet, so that you are
not spreading that infection from horse to horse.