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Looking to try my horse on magnesium, seems to gave symtons of being magnesium deficient - sweats from being nervous, very excitable etc. Not had him tested but thought I would trial it for couple if weeks and see if I see a difference. Never used it before and don't want a calmer with other added ingredients. What brand is best to use and do you add to food? Can I get a liquid form magnesium or just powder?
 
lol, you want Magnesium oxide which is a compound of Magnesium and oxygen. Pure 100% Magnesium is incredible reactive and highly flammable and I doubt you will be able to buy it like that anyway. DO NOT give pure magnesium to horses.
 
Both mine are on 85% mag ox and after few months have noticed really difference. It will do no harm and can help prevent grass sickness. My EMS ponies feet have greatly improved had him barefoot from dec til last month and only got fronts on for x country comp(has always had 4 shoes). Its helped get rid of the fatty deposits on neck and bum and he seems much more content since being on it, hes on a constant diet to keep weight down so can be a bit grumpy.
Ebay pro earth is cheapest
 
Equine America's Magnitude - 19.99 for 6 months supply. Recommended dose 5g for 500kg horse so tiny amount of powder easily mixed in feed. Readily available on line if you can't get locally.
 
Magnesium oxide from progressive earth on ebay - if you just put in magnesium oxide in the searth you will frin pro-earth they have fantastic herbs etc and I highly recommend them and also they are cheaper then anyone else
 
Cheapest way to feed mag ox is to buy 25 kilos of it as calmag from your local Farm Supplies shop. It will set you back around £15 and last for 1000 days at 25g a day.
 
Equimins do magnesium oxide - you have to call them as it's not on their website. It's about £20 for 3kgs I think, it's the cheapest mgo I've found anyway...
 
autumn7 said:
Equine America's Magnitude - 19.99 for 6 months supply. Recommended dose 5g for 500kg horse so tiny amount of powder easily mixed in feed. Readily available on line if you can't get locally.
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My boy came with a tub of magnitude and now having looked at AppleCart14's link to the magoxide on eBay it says 10grams for an ave 500kg horse ?

Why is it equine America state less is needed ??
 
if you want pure Mg, you may as well just give him a lump like this to lick :eek:

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Calcined magnesite is basically the quarried form of mag ox. Hence the 85% pure stuff yo can buy is calcined magnesite. Sometimes its labelled as calmag, sometimes as 85% magox. Calcined refers to the manuf process, there may be a little calcium in it, a few percent but not much. Some horses wont eat it cos its brownish and gritty texture but mine is fine

The 90-99% pure stuff you can buy is always labelled mag ox. It is finer and white powder)

Come to think of it, if you order some of each Royal Mail prob think you are dealing in BOTH cocaine and heroin!

http://www.naturalhorsesupplies.co.uk/p/category/0802204936-Magnesium+Supplements/
 
I don't know why the 5g Wally, but I've fed it for years to my two. Mare weighs in at 650kg so she gets 7g of it daily and mixes in successfully in 3/4 cup of soaked Fast Fibre. Quantities of others would put me off as I don't give a feed all summer. She doesn't need it.
Ebay magox (inc postage) fed at 10g/day works out at 11.93p per day.
Magnitude fed at 5g /day (no postage, buy locally) works out at 11.04 per day.
 
autumn7 said:
Ebay magox (inc postage) fed at 10g/day works out at 11.93p per day.
Magnitude fed at 5g /day (no postage, buy locally) works out at 11.04 per day.
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Yes, but your 5g scoop of Magnitude contains 2.7g of Magnesium.
The 10g scoop of ebay MagOx contains 6g of Magnesium.

So the Magnitude is actually twice the price!!!
If you feed 5g of the ebay MagOx (and get about the same amount of Mg) it will cost you 5.9p per day.
 
Mmmm. I see, Erin.
Then back to why is Magnitude effective with so little? Why does the Ebay magox suggest over twice the amount (of actual Mg) is required?
 
Helenedm14 said:
I have looked on eBay and have seen natural horse supplies selling a bag called mag ox (heavy) for 12.99. Is this what I need?
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The heavy is the purest (99% pure) version, the white powder - think heavy = heavy in magnesium content. The dosage is less than for the light (less pure, 85%) stuff which is a sandy colour and grittier. But not less enough to make it cheaper to feed than the light version.

So you could indulge your horse in the purer stuff from the start, or get the cheaper stuff and see if they will eat that and if not resort to the purer heavy stuff. either is fine.

hope this helps
 
Thanks, what is best feed to add it to, I usually feed baileys topline conditioning cubes. Would this be okay or would I need to use a soaked feed?
 
If your horse is greedy like mine (barefoot, lami prone) then you wont need to do anything as the quantity is quite small. But I do have mine in chaff and not nuts, somaybe that makes a difference. NB the only thing I do have to do is have a heavy bucket otherwise she will tip the bucket on the floor as thats her habit normally anyway, and then the magox can get missed.
 
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