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<blockquote data-quote="Michelle Pankonien" data-source="post: 32858" data-attributes="member: 147"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>What you can do, and this works well, with our frequent floods and then hot dry windy weather, we go from extreme wet to extrem dry and this causes sever foot troubles when you have any at all</p><p></p><p>What can happen is you will have softening of the toes, which become soft them brittle then they brake, or split due to a pre-existing weekness in the hoof wall.</p><p></p><p>What I prefere to do is slip the beast over, shorten the affected toe, using a dremel tool at the corronary band or hair line, agressivly sever the split down to healthy hoof tissue then stop, then make sure you have trimmed down to healthy hoof wall on the affefted toe, slightly trim the un-affected toe and use a "cow-slip", it is a plastic slipper to ellivate the healthy toe and bear all the weight for that leg, thus releaving any preasure on the affected toe, allowing hoof growth to occure with out further damage to the affected toe, </p><p>any vet should have them, or you can order them on-line from valley vet supply or Nasco farm and ranch supply, </p><p></p><p>they are appoxied on, and last a month if put on correctly, you must use acetone to clean the hoof before aplying the cow-slip or the appoxy will not set well, and it will fall off, if you have the means to, I would also try to keep her up in a dry lot/stall and keep the hoof clean, also aply tincture of iodine to the interdigital space as well as the area that was dremelled</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michelle Pankonien, post: 32858, member: 147"] Hello, What you can do, and this works well, with our frequent floods and then hot dry windy weather, we go from extreme wet to extrem dry and this causes sever foot troubles when you have any at all What can happen is you will have softening of the toes, which become soft them brittle then they brake, or split due to a pre-existing weekness in the hoof wall. What I prefere to do is slip the beast over, shorten the affected toe, using a dremel tool at the corronary band or hair line, agressivly sever the split down to healthy hoof tissue then stop, then make sure you have trimmed down to healthy hoof wall on the affefted toe, slightly trim the un-affected toe and use a "cow-slip", it is a plastic slipper to ellivate the healthy toe and bear all the weight for that leg, thus releaving any preasure on the affected toe, allowing hoof growth to occure with out further damage to the affected toe, any vet should have them, or you can order them on-line from valley vet supply or Nasco farm and ranch supply, they are appoxied on, and last a month if put on correctly, you must use acetone to clean the hoof before aplying the cow-slip or the appoxy will not set well, and it will fall off, if you have the means to, I would also try to keep her up in a dry lot/stall and keep the hoof clean, also aply tincture of iodine to the interdigital space as well as the area that was dremelled [/QUOTE]
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