Tommy Boy Gets the Boot!

Tommy Boy gets more hoof work done. He's still pretty lame; alot of thrush and infection in the laminae and white line, so Joanna proposed a more aggressive treatment. We treated his front and back hooves with Clean Trax. If you read about it, the compound sounds very impressive and treatment is in both the liquid and vapor phases of the material. It is very labor intensive and requires two to three people to work it.


First, the chemical must be keep cool, and Southern California in the summer makes that challenging alone! We kept it in the refrigerator until ready to mix.

Ready, mix! - One gallon of water to one bottle of Clean Trax. Pour into the treatment boot, and put a clean front hoof into it! Easier said than done. Like I said, helps to have a lot of hands around for this job - and a cooperative horse, like Tommy Boy! After both hooves are settled into the bag, some one must stay with the horse to be sure he doesn't move for 45 minutes while he soaks!

When the 45 minutes are up, the treatment soaking bags are moved to the back hooves and the front hooves get plastic baggie booties so the vapor phase can continue to work on the front hooves.

That's Gaia and Jessika working to get the back boot on Tommy. They had the hard job! I volunteer to sit with him during the 45 minute treatment!!





So here's Tommy Boy in full treatment regalia! Back boots are now duct taped on (where would we be with out our duct tape!!) He was not so happy about having another 45 minutes on the back and tried to kick them off.

Plastic bags duct taped on the front hooves. When 45 minutes were up, the treatment boots were removed from the back hooves, the solution now spent, was dumped out. Back hooves were then wrapped in plastic baggies for vapor phase of treatment (45 minutes).

Tomorrow, treatment continues with Stalosan F, sole support impression material and hoof casting.