Homemade Hoof Harding Mixture Ingredients

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Homemade Hoof Harding Mixture Ingredients

Postby caraway » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:05 am

What are the ingredients for a homemade bottom hoof hardening mixture?

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Postby Sylvie Hebert » Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:04 pm

one part formaldehyde to 4 parts iodine or simply only turpentine.use on sole only...
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Postby austique » Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:12 pm

We also used the formaldahyde and iodine mix. The formaldahyde can be hard to get though.