After 6 weeks with the foot covered with packing, the foot smells a little funky when the old shoe comes off. Won using packing encourage thrush?
First of all, not everything that ‘smells funky’ is thrush. It is becoming known now, and most veterinarians now agree, that thrush is caused by poor circulation in the foot. We have yet to see thrush in a foot that has been shod with a plastic shoe. With a flexible shoe, blood circulates in the hoof more like nature intended, and the horse’s system can fight off thrush and other potential bacterial agents. We have come to believe that the best cure for thrush is to shoe with the EponaShoe and stop bothering with topical applications of chemicals to try to control it — they probably won’t be needed. Finally, our all-natural anti-bacterial granules were developed to be hand-mixed with our packing to inhibit the grow of bacteria and fungus when using packing.
