Key Benefits of using Healthy Hooves®:

• Safer than Formalin.
• Lowers pH in the footbath.
• More cow passes per footbath.
• Longlasting, effective in use solution.

Healthy Hooves® uses a US patented, low pH, triple buffered formula. A 2% solution will effectively dissolve Copper Sulphate resulting in a chemically chelated compound. Healthy Hooves® maintains a ph of 2.0 in the footbath to keep the Copper at a maximum of 85% solubility that yields more actively available Copper.

Healthy Hooves® overcomes the solubility issue and more importantly, controls the release of the cupric ion (Cu ++). Copper is released by biological demand instead of the water conditions. As solubility increases, Copper remains bio-available thereby reducing Copper Sulphate use by 85% or more.

The critical difference between Copper Sulphate dissolved in water and Copper Sulphate dissolved in Healthy Hooves®, is the degree of toxicologically active Copper complexes that are formed. Because of the abundance of hydrogen ions in the Healthy Hooves® product, predictably higher concentrations of active Copper complexes (Cu2+ ) are held in suspension in a stable weak field chelated chemical bond, thus preventing the precipitation problem that is common with Copper Sulphate in water alone.

When Copper Sulphate or Copper Chloride is dissolved in water, the Copper must be solublised, or chemically changed to a stable, bio-available chemically active form before it can predictably kill micro-organisms. The extent of these chemical changes is now possible to predict. Field trials with Healthy Hooves® show the buffered low pH solublizes Copper to make it a predictably bio-available active form. Thus, the Copper concentration can be precisely predicted with Healthy Hooves®.

Healthy Hooves® maintains a consistently low ph through a triple-acid buffered system that maintains the ph and reduces Copper Sulphate use by up to 85% over Copper Sulphate alone in water. It saves the farmer money while meeting anticipated compliance regulations on Copper use.

Healthy Hooves® also eliminates the hazards of Formalin while reducing the cost of hoof care and increasing milk yield.