Does Fiskes have any products to use on White Line Disease?
“White Line Disease ” and ” seedy toe” are different names for the same condition. White line disease is a better term because seedy toe implies that the condition occurs only at the toe, which is not the case. The basic problem is that separation between the hoof wall and sole at the white line of the hoof. The separation can occur anywhere on the bottom of the hoof from heel to toe. At first lameness may not occur but if the sensitive structures of the hoof become infected and or dirt packs in the hole then lameness may result. There are several factors that can contribute to or cause WLD…hoof wall conformation that causes flares of the wall, irregular shoeing or trimming intervals in which causes the foot to grow long and start to flare, imbalance of hoof moisture, such as environmental conditions that are too wet or too dry, hoof disease such as laminitis where we see separation at the toe, hoof wall abscess which leaves a tract up the inside of the wall, also direct trauma to th
