Cracked Quarters

Doc-t March 18, 2015
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The patch is applied to the medial crack to the quarter of this hoof – hence the name quarter crack.
Pastern roll being used here to protect a medial quarter crack patch. The more common use is to prevent shoe boils in horses who injure the bursa laying over the elbow when laying down.
Pastern roll being used here to protect a medial quarter crack patch. The more common use is to prevent shoe boils in horses who injure the bursa laying over the elbow when laying down.
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  1. Unknown Member November 10, 2017

    Here’s a crazy one for you…QUARTER CRACKS ARE GOOD…it’s nature way of reversing underslung heels…I hate it when farriers stitch the crack closed…all stitching does is make it ten times harder to reverse the underslung heel. The crack does not cause pain…the pain is coming from the broken bar not the wall crack…Ugh.

    1. Doc-t November 24, 2017

      No repair will be effective until the physics behind the shearing of the hoof wall is addressed. In addition, there needs to be a strengthening of the hoof through nutrition (increase a broad variety of amino acids) plus remove gut inflammation causing the chronic protein deficiency (a no grain diet).

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