When copper sulfate or copper chloride is dissolved in water, the copper must be solublized, or chemically change 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 predictably bio-available to control bacteria.  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 sulfate 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 cost effectively minimising the effect of PDD.

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 to attack bacteria.

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 80% 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.