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Had a bad case of quarter cracks on a horse in Bend, tried a new glue method
This gelding had a deep quarter crack on his front left. Owner said it kept opening up no matter what they did. I was about to put a full bar shoe on it, which felt like overkill. Instead, I mixed up some Equi-Thane Super Fast adhesive, the kind with the purple label. Cleaned the crack out with acetone, really got in there. Then I packed the glue deep into the split, not just on top. Held the hoof wall together with a clamp for a full 90 seconds, like the tube said. Let it set for a full day before I even touched a rasp. That was three months back. Just saw the horse last week and the crack is totally grown out, solid as a rock. No special shoe needed. Anyone else use this glue-in-the-crack trick for bad quarter cracks?
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