Brewers yeast and calmers????

[klom81]

Hi

I have a 4yr old who I have only had a few months, he is a really sweet boy and tried hard to please but can be a bit excitable and sensitive/spooky which can result in a bit of a leap if everything gets a bit much for him. I know this is all part of being a youngster but I’m just wondering if anyone has had any success with calmers to help take the edge off over the winter period? I think he will be better when I can give him more wore in the spring.

He is only having hay and a bit of happy hoof/hi-fi original at the moment and is turned out daily. He could do with a little bit more weight on (although I’m not particular worried about his weight) but I don’t want to feed him and make him more excitable.

I have got some brewers yeast and have ready that this can have a calming effect and be good for maintaining weight but I have also ready that it was be used to inscrease stamina, not really the effect I was looking for. I the past with one of my other horses I have tried magnesium bases calmers and they seemed to make her worse so I’m a bit wary about using a mag based one although I know they only work if they are mag deficient.

Really not sure what to do for the best as don’t want him to develop bad habits or for me to loose my bottle with him. I do have lessons with a good instructor with him btw.

 

[Sussexbythesea]

I know you’ve acknowledged it but I do think if you take on a young horse then you’re going to have to deal with some of these things regardless of what you feed them. If you can’t maybe get a professional in a couple of times a week over the winter to keep things from escalating.

Having said that I would change to a molasses and Alfalfa free chaff such as Thunderbrooks healthy herbal chaff. It’s expensive but seems to go a lot further than other chaff.

For my spooky but now old Warmblood I feed that, brewers yeast, micronised linseed and a balancer. I think pro-earth is popular on here. I’m going to change to something like that myself when my current one runs out.

I have previously had success with Horsefirst Relax-me supplement for my spooky boy. It helped us over a difficult patch when I’d moved yards and we were hacking in new territory.