Calmer for Over Reactive Horse

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I've had my new horse about 7 months now and I fully appreciate it can take some time for horses to settle. He is lovely 90% of the time but if something scares him he completely over reacts! I just wondered if there was anything that might make him less explosive. He's on a low sugar/ starch diet with plenty of turnout and regular exercise. Of course i'm working with an experienced instructor too and hope it will improve but the last few weeks of winter seem to be getting worse.
 
Ha Ha this is my horse as she was before she was on CCC.

We since found she is magnesium reactive and they go through the diets of your horse and breed and what they do, and it has made so much difference, although still a bit spooky it is so less drastic and much more enjoyable to ride.

We went right through her diet all feeds and supplements - We first put her on the loading does of CCC 5 weeks, which after a few days I saw improvement, then dropped her down to maintenance and more spooking returned, we then reassessed her diet took her off the nuts but some quick spooking was still there, so called them last week and we have removed the Equivite of which was totalled over 2% magnesium. Now she is on Cool Core - she will never be 100% but the spooks are more stop look and the move on.

Except for Pigeons as she hates those bl00dy birds flying out suddenly, but all in all we are beginning to hack alone albeit kept on contact but she is 80% improved so far and they can still tweak things more.

Very Helpful company and will follow you on the journey touching base when you give them update and can tweak things if you get improvements.

You have nothing to loose if you call them, and he could be magnesium reactive like mine, so for both your safety, you have nothing to loose to call them and explain your problems.
 
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Thank you for your reply. Is this with EquiFeast? He isn't on anything with magnesium in it but certainly worth looking at. I will give them a call. Just feeling a bit deflated as I feel like we are going backwards atm!
 
Yes that is right but there could be magnesium in something or maybe he needs some as 30% do need it and the other 70% don't. They phoned the nut company who is based on Baileys and there was 4 % magnesium in them.

Let me know what they say.
 
I had a great deal of success with Hack Up bespoke. Made a big difference to my big spooky guy.

However, even bigger difference came from getting an equine osteopath to him, and now he's off all the calmers, and making progress by the day.
 
If you feed anything with an amount of alfalfa in it, however small, try leaving it out. Mine is like a different horse if he gets 100g of the stuff!
 
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