For many years, Global Endurance Training Center has been testing equestrian products, from horse shoes and hoof boots to saddles, tack, supplements and feed. We have very high standards and accept only the best. When we find the best, we often decide to carry these items on our ‘product’ page on our website. Everything we offer for sale there, has been thoroughly tested and is being used by us and our staff on our horses. We can recommend and endorse these products.
Lately, we have been testing hoof treatment product, especially for sore hooves, thrush and fungus. We do receive help from our trainers, one of their blogs you can visit at http://schicksaendurance.blogspot.com.
Among many others, Sarah Schick has been helping us with training and testing products. Visit her blog, she has a great training program going herself now.
We are dividing the products in two different categories:
-Sole toughening
-Fungus and thrush treatments
For sole toughening, we found that three products worked best:
1. Venice Turpentine
2. Pine Tar
3. Iodine 11% or higher.
All three products are a good value, inexpensive and reliable.
Many products are on the market for Thrush and fungus control. The key for these products are high volatility and easy penetration into crevasses and tight places that are preferred by bacterias. A lot of the oils have too high a viscosity that they do not penetrate deep enough to kill harmful bacterias.
The top three on our list are:
1. Fungidye
2. Thrushbuster
3. Sore No More Sauce
Fungidye and Thrushbuster penetrate well and seem to work very well.
We also liked White Lightning, but it needs to be mixed with white vinegar, which is somewhat cumbersome and after mixing it looses its stability after a few hours.
What we really liked about Sore No More’s “The Sauce” are the natural ingredients they are using. We are guaranteed that no harmful products enter the hoof crevasses of the horse. Arnica, Lobelia and other herbs combined in a witch hazel base makes it penetrate deeply into crevasses. The molecular structure of witch hazel is very small and the viscosity extremely low. We really got results with “The Sauce”.
Therefore we endorsed it and decided to carry it in our inventory to offer it to everybody. Available under “Horse Related Products/Services” on our home page.
When using ‘The Sauce” or any other fungus treatment products, it is a good idea to use cotton swap tips to help push the product into the crevasses.
Till next post
Christoph, aka ‘The Bootmeister’
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